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I was in Buenos Aires for some work and vacation time and decided to take my camera back to have another pass through the lovely cementario de Recoleta. It was...
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Here begins the long journey home. I spent the day in Ushuaia, the southernmost city in the world. Well, part of the day anyhow. The rest was occupied with flights...
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I decided to take a couple of days to visit the Torres del Paine National Park, one of South America’s most wonderful parks and something that two days certainly does...
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I arrived yesterday in El Calafate, Argentina, after a rainy and rather bland bus ride from El Chaltén. El Calafate is really touristy as El Chaltén was, which is a...
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Perhaps due to too much reading as a child I developed a romantic notion of border crossings early on which, with my first actual experience crossing an international border (from...
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I woke to the sound I had expected but dreaded, the heavy thud of raindrops on my tent, and the steady howl of the omnipresent Patagonian wind. There was no...
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There was an overly-enthusiastic rooster at the army post that greeted the first light of dawn, loudly and repeatedly starting at 4:30. Fortunately he found it in his heart to...
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I was tired after the long ride the day before and slept in, had a relaxing breakfast and then headed up to the bike around 1:00. Rode the 22km back...
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I woke up late telling myself that it was my way of celebrating Christmas given the great campsite, built a little fire and toasted some bread and made some tea,...
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I left Cochrane in the morning and was greeted immediately with 7km of nasty washboard roads and steep winding curves. After 7km I came to the top of a hill...
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I got up early and rode down to the bus stop where I took the bus from Coyhaique to Cochrane. Bus is a little bit of an exaggeration. It was...
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I spent the day yesterday in Coyhaique organizing onward travel, and then ended up changing my mind. I was planning to go on to Chile Chico and then to Perito...