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"What began as a temporary journey became an entire life on wheels. Patricia Fher and German de Cordova, a couple originally from Argentina, have been travelling across the American continent for 23 years in a school bus adapted as a home, a story that today inspires travellers from around the world. Footage filmed in Puebla on Friday shows the vehicle that the Argentine travellers use as a home and as a means of transportation to travel to different countries. Their journey began on March 10, 2003, when the couple set out for Alaska. "We said goodbye to our families for a year with the idea of returning and continuing with our life as we knew it, and so on. We set off for Alaska in a small van. But well, that trip turned into a lifestyle," recounted Patricia Fher. She shared that the first months were full of uncertainty. While their families asked when they would return, they barely managed to travel through South America. Although they originally intended to spend time travelling before starting a family, they later decided to turn this dynamic into a daily routine. "There is not just one way to live, and all that journey made us realise that if we wanted to continue travelling, we could also build our house on a bus, for example, that has wheels and moves. I mean, why not? There are so many ways, and all are valid," emphasised Patricia. Five years after setting off, the couple arrived in Alaska in June 2008 with Patricia pregnant with their first daughter, Inti, prompting them to convert a school bus into a mobile home decorated with portraits and personal objects. "We bought the bus with school seats and turned it into a house that is functional for us. We don't need anything except a washing machine. But well, here we cook, sleep, work, argue, reconcile," she explained. For German de Cordova, the experience of travelling for more than two decades has transformed every aspect of his everyday life. "It is a really very deep, very emotional feeling, because wherever you go, you go with your house," he shared. Their journey through Mexican lands has become another experience of their odyssey across the continent. "In the case of today, when we are in Mexico, it is so large that every movement we make is long distances. So it adds up kilometres in everyday travel," German mentioned. Through the project Amunches, a Mapuche word meaning 'travellers', the Argentine family shares their accumulated experiences through social networks, documenting the routes, landscapes, and characters they meet along the way."
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