Welcome to Samafas — a personal blog and family record spanning 2003 to 2018. It follows Rob and Silvina’s journey as Christian missionaries across South America: from Corrientes and Puerto Madryn in Argentina, to Ushuaia at the end of the world, and finally over the Andes into Pichilemu, Chile.

Started as a way to keep friends and family updated, it grew into something bigger — stories, photos, culture shock, faith, and life in a very different world.

The diary is no longer active — life moved on, as it does. But the memories are all still here, preserved as written. The domain lives on too, quietly, as the home for personal email. Every journey leaves its traces.

Older Archives

Long before WordPress, this site had other incarnations. Two of them are preserved below.

Origsite

The earliest static pages from Samafas.com — hand-built HTML from the early years, before the blog format took over. A genuine time capsule.

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GroovyGuppy

The original name before Argentina. GroovyGuppy.com was born in New Zealand — and lasted only until it became clear nobody in Latin America could say it.

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