People from the 8 month Journey (in chronological order):
Adam Ray
Jordan Rice
Uriel - The first person we met on our trip. We ran into him on the crowded streets of Buenos Aires and had dinner with him in which we traded English lessons for Spanish lessons.
Mounya - A very outgoing women from Lebanon who we met in Ushuaia. We met her at the bottom of the world, trekked through Torres Del Paine with her, and traveled with her off and on through Patagonia. She speaks 5 languages fluently and was a pleasant travel companion to have around for a while. Last seen in Salta, Argentina.
Robert - A journalist from Florida who we met at our Ushuaia hostel. He wrote an article in which an episode with us and a fox was mentioned.
Fabrice - A guy from Paris, France who we have spent a long time traveling with. We met him and Rose in Ushuaia and met up with them again in El Calafate, Argentina. To this day, he really regrets not doing Torres Del Paine so I of course like to rub it in. We traveled through Patagonia together, split up for a month or so, and been traveling together since Salta, Argentina. He joined us though Los Glaciares National Park, the crazy adventure on the Carretera Austral, the bike ride down the most dangerous road, and the Inca trail. After Adam went ahead of us, we also did a horse trek to Choquekiraw ruins and met the new Vice President of Peru the day she was elected! He left June 10th from Lima to visit Mexico before going back home.
Rose - She was traveling with Fabrice from France before they went their seperate ways for the majority of their trips. We traveled with her a little bit through Patagonia before she spent a lot of her time in tiny El Chalten in Los Glaciares National Park for personal reasons (wink wink)
Trisha - I originally met her in Guatemala on a church mission trip where she did Peace Corp for 4 years. We met up with her and her friend Kyle for a few days on the island of Chiloe in southern Chile. Later, in Uyuni, Bolivia, we ran into each other at dinner randomly after completing a 4 day jeep trip through the Salar.
Jackie, Andrew, & Sylvia - We met all three of them in Pucon,Chile on the eve of Bachalet becoming the first women president in Chilean history. Jackie and Andrew were traveling from North Carolina and were recent graduates of Duke University. We had fun trading stories with them and went out to a movie with them. Sylvia rents out rooms of her house to tourists and she was very friendly and loved conversing with us despite language barriers!
Ray - We hung out with him for a couple days in Mendoza, Argentina. He is a really cool guy from D.C. who, after convincing us to go to a bar, informed us he didn´t drink!
Hugo - He is the brother of Daniela, a girl I know from my trip to Guatemala last September. The second time we were in Buenos Aires we met up with him and his friends one night and the next two days he showed us a little bit around the city.
Georgia, Katie, & Lindon - Georgia and Katie were traveling from Boston while Lindon was traveling from Australia. We met them at our first class hostel near Iguazu falls. They showed us where the secret spot of Iguazu falls was located.
Sam & Katie - A couple traveling from the UK who are traveling around the world and have been gone since 2004. We hung out with them for a few days in Salta, Argentina as we waited to meet up with Fabrice. We had a lot of fun discussing the different vocabluary of our countries. Their bickering back and forth was really entertaining! Later, we saw them in Sucre, Bolivia, and we hope to travel with them more later.
Pedro - A guy traveling from Brazil, he did a one day bike trip with us through the Atacama desert in Chile.
Julian - A good friend from Germany, we met him in the Atacama desert and then proceeded to travel with him until the end of his South American adventure on June 1. We did many things with him including the four day jeep trip through Salar Uyuni, hiking around Lake Titicaca and Isla Del Sol, surviving the crazy night in the sacred ancient ruins, and visited the floating islands of Lake Titicaca with him as well. He also taught us a very complicated card game with more rules than I thought possible!
Jessica & Paul - They went on the 4 day jeep tour with Fabrice, Julian, Adam, and I. Paul is from England while Jessica works as a guide in South Carolina. They had only met a few days before but they had a fun chemistry that was always good for a laugh.
The Costa Rican group - A very loud bunch that made up the rest of the tour group we were part of on the Incan trail. They were on a school trip and trained for 4 months before coming to do the Inca Trail.
The Porters - Fabrice and I hired 2 porters from the Inca trail to take us to the ruins of Choquekiraw. These guys were fantastic and I will defenitely remember them for any future trips in this area!
Lourdes and Sandra Mendoza - During one crazy day in Arequipa, Fabrice and I witnessed a riot and then celebrated with the new VP of Peru (left) and her sister (right) the day she was elected!
Jorge and Raphaela - These were the only other gringos we saw between Lima and leaving the Amazon jungle (9 days). Jorge is from Spain while Raphaela is from Austria. They ended up following us to Lagunas and did a seperate 4 day jungle tour but we still ended up seeing them everyday.
Genaro and family - Genaro was our guide through the our journey through the Amazon jungle. After we were unable to get a boat ride back, he invited us into his familys home who were very hospitable! This little girl in the photo was an absolute crack up.
Jessica - My sponsored child whom I was lucky enough to meet my second day in Quito…she was very shy and it took a lot of prying to get words out of her!
People of Agua Blanca - During our volunteering experien
ce in this little village, 
we met so many people that it would be impossible to give them each their own paragraph. Adam and I loved volunteering here and teaching the children was a great experience for both of us. By the time we left, I felt really connected to a lot of 
the children and to the community and it was sad to leave. In the photos are the older children class, a few smaller kids from the village that we hung out with a lot, and the women who cooked for us and their daughters.
Amanda - And then…my sister joined the journey! She arrived in Quito on July 9th and and traveled with us through Ecuador and Central America. She did many cool things with us (some of which she wrote about) including: taking a train ride through the Ecuadorian highlands, visiting the Panama Canal, enjoying the beautiful Carribbean, rafting and ziplinning in Costa Rica, hanging out in breathtaking Isla Ometepe in Nicaragua, spending a few days in friendly El Salvador, visiting the incredible Mayan ruins of Tikal, bartering in many markets in Guatemala, and hanging out at Lake Atitlan and in Antigua. There were also some unfortunate negative experiences that happened while she was traveling with us including: our hotel room flooding in Panama City, her getting her stuff stolen in Costa Rica, and getting cheated by a taxi driver. Despite the bad luck she brought to us, we absolutely loved traveling with her! She departed August 13th from Guatemala City.
The Tatter Crew - Don´t ask. This was the team that went with us to Cajixay. We had a great group and the trip was a lot of fun and very impactful.
Big Tatter (also known as Papi, Papa grande, Ricardo, Rich, & Dad) - I was so happy to see both of my padres after so much time apart from them. My dad was a great leader for the team and he was always good for some comic relief (whther intentional or not).
Sweet Tatter (otherwise known as Maurina & Mom) - It was so great to see her again. She did the usual mommy things on this trip including giving backrubs (after a lot of heavy lifting this felt SO good) and getting very emotional over anything that had to do with her son (that´d be me). She was a great asset to the team and lived up to her sweet tatter name.
Spud (otherwise known as Daniela and Dani) - She lives in Guatemala and served as our Agros guide. She is originally from El Salvador and speaks English fluently. This was my second trip with her. She is a wonderful person with a good heart but can also be as tough as nails when she needs to be. Everybody on the team absolutely adores her.
Pringles (otherwise known as Molly) - This was my second trip with her as well and it was great getting to know her a little bit better on this one. She is quite the animal lover and is somewhat of a dog fariy godmother on these trips. She is a really nice, loving, and caring individual and it was great that she could come down (if she hadn´t we would have been in real trouble on the arts and crafts that we had to do!)
Curly Fry (otherwise known as Shelly & Darth Vador) - This is one funny women. She had so many stories and cracked us up on several occasions. She writes plays for a living and organized a small skit of the parable of the lost sheep for us to perform for the village. She was also quite the rebel in high school (o.k. not really).
Home Fries (otherwise known as Junia & June) - She is such a loving and caring person and she always gives compliments out so naturally. She was also somewhat of a spiritual leader for us on the trip and had some very humerous moments as well.
Organic Tatter (otherwise known as Kay) - She was another great member of the team who was very loving and caring as well. Unfortunately she got sick and had to miss the last day in the village. We discovered that she can be quite funny and I was particuarly entertained to find out about a certain incident involving a piano and dancing.
Hash Brown (otherwise known as Muñeca) - This was the dog that always hung out at the waldorf (the place we stayed in Cotzal) and had a parculiar habit of howling at 3:00 in the morning. Dani layed down the law and we were all under strict orders (especially Molly) not to feed to dog inside the waldorf.
Red Tatter - That would be Adam. I am glad he finally got the opportunity to go one of these trips.
Tatter Tot - That would be me. I was also known as Choripan by the kids that hung around at the Waldorf in Cotzal. They couldn´t pronounce Jordan in English and so it became Choripan which is a popular food in Argentina (similar to a hot dog).