Be warned. The smugness of this post may make you sick.
The things we ticked off our lists, our great, ever-expanding, life-long lists, were plentiful. Whilst on the road, Andy Ellis and I:
* Ate the Steak of Our Lives in Argentina.
* Rode pillion on a motorbike in the biggest favela in Rio.
* Looked a Southern Right Whale squarely in the face and heard her mammoth inhalation as she filled her lungs.
* Went to a Brazilian rave in the country wilds of Sao Paulo.
* Sunk numerous caipirinhas on Copacobana Beach in Rio.
* Swam in the thermal waters of a hot volcanic spring.
* Breathed the sulphuric stench from a geyser in Bolivia.
* Got chased by llamas.
* Rode a horse into the red desert where Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid battled it out.
* Chewed coca leaves in Bolivia.
* Rode tipsily round the bodegas in Mendoza, sampling the wines.
* Felt the spray of the Iguassu Falls on our faces.
* Saw a Tango Show in Buenos Aires.
* Were robbed blind.
* Watched the sun rise over the Bolivian Salt Flats.
* Accidentally ate cow lung soup. (Big white hexagonal tissue which flails like coral in the hot liquid. Rising bile.)
* Dived into a glacial river.
* Saw smoke rising from two active volcanos.
* Slept in a hotel made entirely from salt.
* Cycled down the World´s Most Dangerous Road.
* Visited the world´s first cocaine bar.
* Crawled down a stifling silver mine in Potosi.
* Hiked through the Amazon rainforest by night.
* Watched the sunrise over Lake Titicaca.
* Survived a light aircraft flight over the Andes.
* Hiked through the jungle to Machu Pichu.
* Sandboarded screaming down the world´s biggest sand dunes.
* Ate a Mexican Christmas dinner in a palm fringed courtyard.
* Were battered by the waves in the Pacific as we played frisbee on Christmas day 2010.
* Had severe food poisoning thanks to a cup of unboiled tap water.
* Toasted marshmallows in an active volcano.
* Burnt effigies at a political rally in Honduras.
* Waded through a flooded Columbian barefoot.
* Got rained on everytime we visited the Caribbean.
* Veered too close to the crocodiles in a boat screaming with tourists.
* Traveled with a group of 11 of our best friends and siblings for Christmas and New Year.
* Missed home.
* Came home.
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