Hello from the Carretera Austral, a 1,240 km journey through Chile’s Northern Patagonian scenery. We’ve nearly completed the southern portion and so far it’s been about cliffy mountains, glaciers, waterfalls, rural scenes, a few small villages and a whole bunch of potholes and washboard dirt Read More …
We listened to the park rangers and waited for a great forecast to start the Huemul Circuit in El Chalten. It is 40 miles and climbs up into the South Patagonian ice fields, crosses rivers, 2 passes and then comes sharply back down running alongside Read More …
Rarely do we ever linger for very long in any one place. But El Chalten in Los Glacieres national park has definitely lured us in and we’re still here! Crazy for us. It’s funny to have read about these places for so long and now Read More …
Two important things we wanted to do while this far south in South America was go to Antarctica and do the O Trek in Torres del Paine National Park in Chile. Well, after worrying that something would come in the way of them they are Read More …
I can’t believe another 2 weeks of our lives whipped by already. As we’re headed off backpacking I guess I don’t have time to write much so its an easy read! It took a few days to come off of the Antarctica high we had. Read More …
Wow I can’t believe another year is coming to a close. It’s all going faster & faster I think. We crossed some places off our list but then we’ve added more places we want to visit so I guess we’re at a tie. The truck Read More …