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Episode 882 | Filmed April 2023 | Lake Titicaca, Peru
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Who are Kara and Nate?!
Watch our documentary here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuFv4iF8wgg&t=1s
Originally from Nashville, Tennessee, we got married 2013 and were super “normal.” I was a teacher and Nate started a small printing business from the spare bedroom of our apartment.
We discovered the world of “travel hacking” while planning our honeymoon & became addicted 😉
So after 2 years of obsessively saving $35k and over 2 million miles and points, we sold our cars and apartment and left home January 10, 2016 for a “one year” trip around the world.
Our goal was to see as many places as possible before we ran out of money and went back home to “normal life.” We started this travel vlog to share our experiences with friends and family, but quickly fell in love with living on the road and found a new passion for capturing our travels through video. So we did everything we could to keep going.
4 years later, we achieved our new goal of visiting 100 countries and all 7 continents. We had no plans to slow down, until 2020 forced us to 😉 Which is when we bought a converted van to start exploring our own country for the first time.
After ~2 years of van life, we are back to full time traveling! And now we are finding the best adventures the world has to offer 🙂
We are incredibly grateful to be able to continue doing something we love every day. 😊🎥🌎 Thank you to everyone who has been a part of our journey!
#peru #titicaca #travel #laketiticaca
0:00 Lake Titicaca, explained
2:31 Moving in!
4:10 is this a tourist trap?
6:04 an offering to the gods
8:04 Fishing with Luis!
15:02 Local morning routine
19:27 Room tour
21:09 Lake tour
31:23 5 am fishing
34:53 Our takeaways 🙂
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Thanks for the love on this video! We are so glad you enjoyed it as much as we did 🥰 If you want to watch our beautiful train journey that brought us to Lake Titicaca, watch the video we posted over on our @DailyDrop channel!! 😁➡️ https://youtu.be/-lD9eSdlfzo 🚂 (plus we shared how you can book the same train for free using points!!)
Whoa. I don't normally comment on your videos: I love them all. This one was different. It was mind blowing. The content, surely; however, the production itself seemed to be at a whole other level. This was just incredible. It must be difficult to communicate effectively through the lens, but you nailed every aspect of this video. It was extraordinary. Well done! You both should be very proud of yourselves.
IM AM CORNHOLIO I NEED TP FOR MY BUNG HOLE!!
This video took me back to my visit in 2008! It was such an incredible experience. 😊
Obsessed with you guys! What a life use have had travelling the world with eachother🥰🥰🥰
Couldn’t you have bought Luis a tarp or a few extra blankets?
This was such a sweet family and really makes your put things into prospective. You can really do so much with so little. ❤ such a wholesome video thank you for sharing
Shed a few tears because that's what life is like for many people. I hope we all can try to be as happy as Luis.
I love your videos because they are entertaining and also because you show us that we need to be mindful of how other cultures live and what their needs are. Bravo.
I think Luis is about to have a lot of visitors in the near future 😄
I love the story arc of this video, from avoiding “touristy” stuff (my pet peeve, too) to a deeper understanding of how tourism can actually help communities like this one. Thank you for opening my eyes to that.
I feel like Kara was probably the best preschool teacher!
when two 30+ year old white ppl go and complain about fish soup while having a 7 year old child serve them pancakes and orange juice. I don’t like privilege
i wake up at 3 to work at 4 every morning where it is cold 9/12 months. not special
I wasn't expecting to get teary watching this episode 🥲 this is what life is about ❤ thanks for sharing!
This was amazing! Ill definitely be visiting this place one day!
…did you ever confirm if Luis heard you and reacted, because I gotta admit, I started wincing at the anti-fish soup breakfast talk lol. Like…if that's part of the local experience, isn't that what you wanted? 😂
Kara, you don't like sweet bread; for me until recent years, it was anything in the nut family since birth, and I'm 75, so that's a long time. However, in recent years I've noticed I can actually between tolerate and actually like nuts of various kinds, but unlike my brother, I'll never be able to take a spoonful of peanut butter from the jar, and put it in my mouth.
Back in the summer of '76, I was on a mission trip in Brazil's Amazon jungle with a group of teens and 3 other adults, clearing an airstrip. After that experience, I really wanted to come back to S. America, but it never worked out. Thanks for letting me go vicariously through the 2 of you, since this is one place I wanted to visit.
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i love experiences like this. Hope to continue to have some of our own
Iv heard of peru but never of these floating islands. Thanks for the video guys I really enjoyed seeing a different way of life
It brought tears to my eyes when I heard about the local struggle. In America, we really don't think about what other people in other countries have to go through. We really should realize the struggle it is just to survive one day to the next in some of these places around the world. This family probably has it way better than their countrymen, with the tourist revenue and the air b&b.
You guys looked like you had so much fun there, I would love to go
What a beautiful, enlightening video! It surely makes the viewer fall in love with Luis and his family as well as the beautiful scenery.
LuvN it!!!❤
Informative. Fun. Amazing. I get more and more excited to travel to these places every time I watch a Kara and Nata video. Another phenomenal video, guys! #Nicaragua
I enjoy your videos. I do find it crazy that you guys don’t know more Spanish by now. Definitely for lack of trying. Even an attempt to say the name authentically would be appreciated 🙂 doesn’t have to be perfect.
Gracias gracias for being loving human beings thank you
Another amazing video, well done you two, thanks for sharing so many beautiful places and diverse culture and at the same time for all you do for the local communities that you visit!! 👍💖