The following post details the Global Goulets’ journey from November 20 to December 19: Story Highlights: We declare a mission to buy a car in Bogota Alejandra and Jhesica redefine hospitality as we know it The only people in the world who know Eric better than Brian and Alex do come visit The search to […]
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Dec
Dec
The following post details the Global Goulets’ journey from November 14 to November 20: Making it to Medellin After hours of buildup, driving through the abandoned countryside, along curvy mountainous highways into the peaking dawn of day, the first suspicions of a booming city came into sight. Through hazy morning fog, the outskirts of […]
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Nov
Nov
The following post details the Global Goulets’ journey from November 2 to November 15: A Continental Transition It had felt like a lifetime in Central America. What has always looked like no more than a blip on the map swallowed up 7 months of our lives. We entered into Mexico as wide-eyed wanderers, a […]
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Nov
Nov
Can young, career-oriented Americans benefit from the European custom of extended travel before entering the workforce? Young, career-oriented Americans don’t travel. Sure, we enjoy hard-earned one to two week vacations, short respites from our work, but do we really see the world? As exciting as a vacation to some wonder of the world like Machu […]
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Nov
Nov
The following post details the Global Goulets’ journey from September 17 to November 1: Santa Maria’s Last Waltz By now you know our car is a gonner. It is in the hands of another, our Panamanian friend Rene. We are alone, with just what we can carry on our backs. The road ahead is […]
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Oct
Oct
The following post details the Global Goulets’ journey from September 17 to October 27: Story Highlights: 4 magical nights in Bocas del Toro nearly leads us to forget our car nightmare altogether Deep boarding is boogie boarding on steroids We hide away in the rainy plush highlands of Boquete Panama City turns out to be a pretty […]
Costa Rica, Countries, End of the World 2015, Nicaragua, Our Story
Chapter 28: Sloth Sleuthing and other Extraneous Escapades
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Sep
Sep
The following post details the Global Goulets’ journey from September 4 to September 16 (Days 159 – 171): Sometimes certain stretches of our sightseeing serve us only slightly in strengthening the serious side of this seminal season of our TV series. Sometimes there is no beginning, middle and end. Sometimes we just hop from place […]
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Sep
Sep
The following post details the Global Goulets’ journey from August 17 to September 3 (Days 140 – 158): By now, it feels like we’ve tried every trick in the book to slow down this trip. We spent a whole month in Mexico, though we’d only planned to speed through in a week. The same […]
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Aug
Aug
The following post details the Global Goulets’ journey from August 3 to August 16 (Days 114 – 139): Eric didn’t remember much about Luisa. His old babysitter, who worked with his family up until he was 5 years old, had dissolved into not much more than a fading memory. “She was so wonderful with you,” […]
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Aug
Aug
The following post details the Global Goulets’ journey from July 22 to August 2 (Days 113 – 125): This post is written under sullen circumstances. Shrouded in a black cloud of doom, we sit in a café in San Juan del Sur, the gringo party capital of Central America, on a Sunday, the day […]
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Jul
Jul
The following post details the Global Goulets’ journey from July 15 to July 21 (Days 106 – 112) Story Highlights: We stumble into the amazing beach town of El Transito Excited by the work of NICA, we film the school and make them a promo video Oliver, an unforgettable little boy, leads us to the heart of […]
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Jul
Jul
The following post details the Global Goulets’ journey from July 10 to July 14 (Days 101 – 105) Story Highlights: A firehouse becomes the final host site for our stay in Honduras We meet up with our buddy Parker in Nicaragua and get into gringo party mode Way out in some neighborhood in Leon, we […]
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Jul
Jul
The following post details the Global Goulets’ journey from July 2 to July 9 (Days 93 – 100) Story Highlights: Brazilian Amanda joins us as the 4th Goulet, adding some fresh perspective Playing with a jaguar leads us to discover it isn’t all fun and games in Trujillo On July 4th, Eric gets attacked by a […]
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Jul
Jul
Note: As the nature of our journey evolves, so does the form through which we will transmit and retell this narrative. Days, as unique and isolated entities, become rather immaterial. Instead, our tale has become a series of interwoven mini stories; it is set apart primarily by the people and places we’ve met along the […]
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Jul
Jul
The following post details the Global Goulets’ journey from June 15 – June 22 Story Highlights: Once in Honduras without dying, we go behind the raging waterfalls at Pulhalpanzak The Murder Capital of the World, San Pedro Sula, isn’t all that scary We produce a Honduran music video for our friend Walter, then go birdwatching with him […]
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Jul
Jul
The following post details the Global Goulets’ journey from June 4 – June 14 Story Highlights: We travel to a farm in El Salvador called Finca Jalapa, where we work for an awesome dude named Arcangel Over the weekend, we try our hand at surfing again (and fail miserably) Farming turns out to be really, really hard […]
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Jul
Jul
The following post details the Global Goulets’ journey from May 29 – June 3: Day 59 (continued): We sailed through Guatemala’a serene midday seas, proud and content from our previous night’s successes at Mincho’s. As badly as we wanted to accept their offer to stay one more night, we’d tightly packed our schedule, having […]
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Jul
Jul
The following post details the Global Goulets’ journey from May 26 – 29: Day 56 (continued): It pretty much took us two full days to recover from our second Acatenango experience. How we’d done it we may never know, but all that glory came at some serious costs to our physical health. Brian and […]
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Jul
Jul
The following post details the Global Goulets’ journey from May 17 – 26: Day 47 (continued): Our bodies were sore but our souls were pure. The aftermath of our successful Double Whammy expedition was a time of complete and utter relaxation and rehabilitation. No over-exertion we agreed, especially not for the next few days. After […]
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Jul
Jul
The following post details the Global Goulets’ journey from May 13 – 17: Day 43 (continued): “A volcano! Look, it’s a volcano!!!” we shouted in unison upon our arrival to Antigua. There were several of them. Monstrous chunks of Earth, which stood motionless at the horizon’s periphery; a half dozen of them in all directions, […]
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Jun
Jun
The following post details the Global Goulets’ journey from May 11 – 13: Day 41 – By Monday in the late afternoon, our car was refreshed and in better condition than it had been since long before we’d bought it a few months back, thanks to our new mechanic friends in Fray de las […]
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Jun
Jun
The following post details the Global Goulets’ journey from May 9 – 10: Day 39 – The hot, horribly uncomfortable morning started off early with some piercing headaches. It was moments like this where we liked to ignore the advice from our parents, who might tell us the best way to avoid hangovers is […]
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Jun
Jun
The following post details the Global Goulets’ journey from May 7 – 8: Day 37 – We woke up early and were determined to make it to Tikal before the sun went down. Tikal had been hyped as the most grandiose and magnificent of all the Mayan ruins; with a label like that, we […]
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May
May
The following post details the Global Goulets’ journey from May 2 – 6: Day 32 – Continuing our rally can sometimes be so hard, especially after an experience as profound as ours with Paco. Nearly all the way through this diverse land and we’d seen almost every side of Mexico; from its colonial charms […]
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May
May
The following post details the Global Goulets’ journey from April 29 – May 1: Day 29, continued – San Cristobal de las Casas, on paper, was a fascinating place. A colonial centerpiece of the Chiapas highlands, this red-roofed municipality comes up in almost any traveler’s itinerary. It is home to the central conflict of the […]