About Marta & Scott

We are Scott and Marta Dent, children of the 50’s who lived in many places but both washed up in Phoenix in the 1970’s and never left. We have been married now for 37 years and have two smart, compassionate, and beautiful daughters Deanna and Laura. We leave behind on this trip extended family in Arizona to cover the home front; thanks in advance to Patricia, Emmita, Jorge, Rudy and Liz and their sweet daughter Camille, Margarita and Joanne, Carolina, Ramona, Ruth and Rich, and more remote support from Mark and Ronnie in Florida,  Marcella  in Vermont, and Nicolette, Cory and Damon in Tucson.
Before all this Marta was (and will be again on our return) an engineer by training and a practitioner of Geographic Information Systems (GIS – aka map or spatially organized databases). Scott has spent 35 years in construction from shovel jockey to project superintendent to office puke doing the bidding, estimating, and purchasing.

Update: June, 2015

We have been on the road for over a year now carrying our possessions in 2 backpacks and calling hotels, B&B’s , rental apartments and hostels our home. Still in awe at nature’s beauty and at the accomplishments of men.  Our first year travel anniversary found us in Paris, France.  Happy and ready for the year to come.

Update: October, 2015

We have been keeping track of our expenses throughout our entire trip and since some people seemed interested in the numbers we will add a page with the actual expenses of our trip by country.