May to September 2018
In 2018 Sarah and I spent four months traveling South America, and I blogged the whole trip on the original jonnybyrne.com: the border crossings, the treks, the food, and the disasters, written as they happened.
The blog was later deleted by accident and thought lost. It was recovered in 2026 through the Internet Archive and is republished here with its original dates. All 22 posts are republished here in full, exactly as written in 2018. The original blog photos did not survive, so each post is illustrated with my own frames of the same places, from the galleries on this site, set where the original photos sat.
At last, we have finally made it to our fist stop on this unknowingly long travel experience: Quito, Ecuador. With almost 17 hours of traveling each…
Hello! Sarah here. Jonny is busy editing photos and complimenting himself under his breath, so I’m ignoring him and writing this next post. It’s been…
Alright folks, your favorite halfies are back in action after a week of hiking, biking, and traversing the bus system all throughout Ecuador. But…
What is up Halfie Nation, (sarah wanted to come up with something to call all of our four followers, hi mom and dad, so this is the best we got). We…
Alright Halfie Nation this is going to be a long one because today we will be discussing our journey on the Quilotoa Loop! Yes, i’m sure you have no…
During our three day trek around Quilotoa, almost every other traveler we met was either heading to Banos afterwards, or had just come from there,…
After finishing up in Banos, Sarah and I decided that we were ready to head off to Peru! With some research we agreed upon our first destination in…
Now that we have had some time to fully settle into Peru, i guess it’s time to discuss our few days so far in Huaraz, Peru. Well to continue off of…
BIENVENIDOSSSSS our loyal blog readers! That’s right, all six of you, we appreciate you! It’s been a brief few moments since we’ve done anything…
We arrived on our bus from Huaraz. 9 hours, and that bus ride seemed like a breeze. I guess I really am getting the hang of this whole traveling…
Hola Halfie Nation, We are currently (well now we are sitting in our hostel in Arequipa, but we finally have good enough WiFi to get this post up!)…
So from Lima, we decided to splurge on a hop on hop off bus service that has stops all throughout Peru and even into Bolivia. After reading about the…
How’s it going Halfie Nation! Jonny here! Hope you didn’t miss me too much. Your favorite Halfies only have about an hour and a half left of their…
We are pretty far behind, so I’m not too sure how well this blog is going to go because honestly i am not too sure how much i remember but I guess we…
The day started with a 2:30am wake up call to meet the bus at 3am outside our hostel. It was a a very cold and cloudy morning. We met up with a few…
ALRIGHT FAM, WE ARE FINALLY CATCHING UP ON BLOG POSTS, WHICH MEANS THAT MACHU PICCHU IS UP NEXT! SO POST COLCA CANYON TREK (READ ABOUT IT HERE) WE…
Alright y’all, because I already made a video for this trek. I’m not going to be writing a blog or anything, so instead enjoy my video and some…
First stop: Puno, Peru only about two hours North of the Peruvian, Bolivian border! I’m not going to lie I was pretty excited for Puno and Lake…
This was a city that quickly became very high on our radar due to their extensive hikes in the nearby mountain ranges, the awesome and fun gondola…
Alright Halfie Nation! We are just pumping out blogs left and right to finish up the series of Halfies go to South America! So with three more to go,…
Alright, so after Bolivia, we crossed the border and arrive into Chile! Now, I would love to sit here and talk about how amazing Chile was but to be…
Alright, so we now officially start our journey back to America! With a two hour bus ride back to Santiago, we then found our AirBnB we were staying…