Who reads this
Mostly Argentine and Spanish-speaking families, couples and remote workers. People who want a realistic itinerary they can copy, not a polished feed.
There is no launch date to circle and no growth chart to show. What follows is the order in which things actually happened, as far as we can still trace them.
Since 2019
Our family has been on the road with a small dog named Jetta since 2019. She started as a passenger in the back seat and ended up shaping most of our decisions: which buses we take, which apartments we rent, how far we drive in a day.
The first notes
The blog began as a way to keep track of things we kept forgetting: which clinic in Mendoza would see a dog without an appointment, which rental listings in Bariloche actually meant yes when they said no pets. Those notes turned into posts.
Slow overland
We travel overland across South America, often slowly, with kids and a pet. That pace is not a philosophy we set out to have. It came from the practical limits of moving a family and a dog, and it turned out to suit us.
Today
We publish two to three new posts a month. They cover pet-friendly lodging, border paperwork for animals, long-stay apartment rentals, and the unglamorous side of slow travel with kids. Most readers are Argentine and Spanish-speaking families, couples, and remote workers looking for itineraries they can actually follow.
Jetta Crosses the World is a personal travel blog kept by a family based in Buenos Aires. We have been moving through South America with a small dog named Jetta since 2019, mostly overland, mostly slowly, and always with kids in the back seat.
Nothing here is sponsored scenery. We write from the road about what a trip actually asks of you: the vet bill in Mendoza, the rental listing in Bariloche that quietly allows a dog, the bus company that says yes at the counter and no at the gate.
Mostly Argentine and Spanish-speaking families, couples and remote workers. People who want a realistic itinerary they can copy, not a polished feed.
Overland routes, long stays in one place, and enough slack in the plan to change it. Slow is not a slogan for us, it is what makes the trip affordable and bearable with a pet.
Pet-friendly lodging, border paperwork for animals, temporary apartment rentals, packing lists and weather notes for Patagonia and the Andes. Two to three new posts a month.
No paid placements dressed up as advice, no invented numbers. If we did not pay for it or ask for it ourselves, it does not go on the page.
The blog started as notes for friends who kept asking the same questions about traveling with a dog. It grew into a record of routes, costs and small decisions that rarely make it into travel writing. If you are planning a slow trip with a pet or a family, the Patagonia route guide and the border-crossing checklist are the two places we usually send people first.
We are not a media outlet with a sales team. When a hostel, a bus company or a small clinic shows up on this site, it is because we stayed there, bought the ticket or sat in the waiting room ourselves. There is no sponsored placement behind these names, and no one pays to appear here.
Temporary apartments and small hostels in Bariloche, Mendoza and Salta that took a small dog without turning it into a negotiation. We list the ones we would book again, and note what the deposit arrangement looked like.
Neighborhood vets who can issue an animal health certificate and know how recently it has to be dated before a crossing. Useful when you are heading toward Chile and the clock is already running.
Quiet desks in Córdoba, Rosario and Salta where the connection held up through an afternoon of calls. We keep a short list for the weeks when an apartment is too distracting to work from.
Names appear here only after we have used the place ourselves. If a listing changes hands or a policy shifts, we update the post rather than leave a stale recommendation standing.
We are a family from Buenos Aires who started traveling overland with a small dog named Jetta in 2019. This site is where we keep the notes.
Jetta Crosses the World began as a way to stop repeating the same answers to friends. Which clinic in Mendoza would see a dog on short notice. Which landlord in Bariloche would actually accept a pet once you asked directly. Which bus company lets a small dog ride in the cabin instead of the hold. Writing it down once turned out to be easier than explaining it every time.
It is a personal journal, not a media project. Nobody sponsors the routes, and nothing here is written to look better than the trip actually was. When a drive takes longer than planned or a rental falls through, that goes in the post too.
We move by bus and by car, in stages, with room for a rest day when the road or the weather asks for one.
Health certificates, carrier sizes, cabin rules, and the small logistics of finding a place that takes a dog.
Temporary apartments, weekly grocery math, and how a six-week stay holds together without draining resources.
Kids on the road, school-age routines, and remote work from smaller cities where the connection is not a given.