Reflections
It's been a year this month since we stepped back into our lives in the U.S., and I have finally finished the postscript to this...
The End of the Road (trip)
We’ve been back in the U.S for over 2 months now. Finding the discipline to finish this blog has been difficult. Taking myself back in...
Mapuche - "people of the land"
We left sunny Pucón and headed an hour north to the city of Temuco to visit a Mapuche community. The Mapuche are Chile's largest...
A Re-centering: Pucón
After weeks of research and copious emails to various shipping brokers, we finally found an agent in Chile that could help us get LoJo...
Turning Around: Puerto Varas to San Martin del los Andes
For the first time in 25 months, the little digital compass readout on our rearview mirror (a mirror rendered otherwise useless with our...
The Frozen Frontier: Antarctica
First we drove to the end of the world, then we sailed off the edge of it. We can now say, unequivocally, we have gone as far south as...
The End of the World: Ushuaia
Goalllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!!!! We did it! We drove to the point where the road ends. No Mas. We left Puerto Natales for the...
Towers of Power: Torres del Paine NP
After the Perito Moreno Glacier we headed southwest, back toward Chile - and yet another border crossing. Our destination was the Torres...
Mother Nature is Fierce: El Chalten to El Calafate
The road out of Chile was rough and bumpy. For hours we drove on washboard roads, snaking up through the mountains and then back down to...
Patagonia! - Pto. Guadal to Pto. Tranquilo
Patagonia. The land of the explorer, the outlaw, the exiled – people drawn to the sheer enormity of its physical space. This is where the...
