Welcome to Queventure.com.
Queventure in Spanglish translates into ‘What Venture’ and is a simple combination of two words that perfectly describe our family’s current travel lifestyle: Quevedo + Adventure = Queventure!
We hope you’ll enjoy coming along as our family of five ventures across Latin America. Our travels will take us from Mexico, through Central America, to the furthest tip of South America.
Our ultimate goal is to spend quality family time together, experience new cultures, partake in global community service, expand our family’s use of the Spanish language, immerse ourselves in our own cultural roots, and ultimately, go on many, many adventures!
This dream to travel long term started before we were married almost 13 years ago. At that time, the plan was to marry and immediately leave to the Peace Crops. for two + years of service. We thought bridal registries and housewarming parties would remain on hold until after our travels. We were wrong.
Flash forward to late 2005 when we received the best news: we were pregnant. We like to say it was our plan that manifested in God’s timing. Soon after this life-changing baby news we shifted gears planning a “shot gun” wedding in Hawaii and buying a condo. We went on to have two more children and spent over 7 beautiful years raising them in Redondo Beach CA. This was a town that gave us everything we could have ever asked for — great schools, neighbors, weather, and easy access to our SoCal friends and family. We went on to build two successful careers anyone would be happy to settle into well into retirement.
When we announced that we’d leave the country to travel with our children – 10, 6, and 5 – we received lots of encouraging words mixed with plenty of criticisms: Why leave the U.S.? Why go somewhere “unsafe”? Why escape and “do this” to our children? And our favorite oddball question: “Did you win the lottery?” Ha! We wish!
Selling all of our possessions, home-schooling our children, and leaving behind two high-level and successful careers was never about escaping and always about fully living. Our dream to travel gnawed at us often, so much so that some years ago we began to save towards this goal and limited expenses. We made sacrifices along the way such as avoiding the purchase of a home or new cars. We also passed up on many family vacations all because we wanted to try our luck living abroad. Many have asked us to share the “how-to” specifics, and we will, so continue to follow our blog updates.
We are happy to have you along for the adventure!
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| Noah 5, Sofia 6, & Isaiah 10 in front of their mother and father’s high school in Inglewood, CA. |
Tentative Travel Itinerary:
Jul. ’17: Puerto Rico and Belize
Aug. ’17: Tulum & Playa Del Carmen in Quintano Roo & San Cristobal de las Casas in Chiapas.
Sept. ’17: Guatemala (Lake Atitlan, La Capital, Antigua, etc.).
Oct. ’17: Granada, Nicaragua
Nov. ’17 – Dec. ’17: Costa Rica
Jan. ’18: Panama
Feb. ’18: Colombia (Cali, Cartagena)
March ’18: Ecuador (Galapagos Islands)
April ’18: Peru (Machu Picchu)
May ’18: Chile and Argentina (Iguazu Falls)
Jun ’18: Brazil (Rio de Janeiro)
Que (what) venture will you choose today?
Add your comment below sharing your fun venture (s) with us.
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All of you are amazing! You inspire me to see life a different way. Let all your "Queventures" fill your family with life long memories! I love you All!
I am so excited for you and am so looking forward to following along!