Cool as ice: Perito Moreno Glacier
I’ve been to many tourist attractions where my expectations are built up so high and I’m slightly (sometimes greatly) disappointed when I arrive and discover it’s not what everyone said it was. Perito Moreno Glacier did not cause that sinking feeling. Quite the opposite. The sight of the glacier, which towers 70 metres above the [...]
Idea Versus Reality
Sometimes I really like the idea of something, then when it actually happens it’s not what I thought it would be. My most recent example of this is when Jimmy and I camped last week at Laguna de Los Tres in Patagonia. It was about a 6 mile hike to the lake. Being a photographer, [...]
El Chalten: A Hiker’s Paradise
As I mentioned here and here, Jimmy and I spent 6 nights in El Chalten in Patagonia, Argentina. If you like walking and hiking and all of that outdoorsy stuff it really is the perfect place to visit. We didn’t even come close to walking all of the trails available to us, only minutes from [...]
Pizza Night!
Hello! Long, long time no speak. Unbeknown to me the internet in El Chalten was from a satellite. It was so slow, the only thing I could access was Facebook. Hence, no blog posts for 6 days! In some ways it felt liberating to be free from the internet, but in other ways it was [...]
Journey To The End of the World (or Maybe Just Argentina)
I hadn’t planned to post today because we are on the road all day and I didn’t think I’d have internet access. As it turns out, the bus Jimmy and I planed to take to our final destination seems to not be running for some reason, giving us 2 hours in the bus terminal. It [...]
Practically Tropical
After experiencing rain on our first two days in Buenos Aires, Jimmy and I were relieved to wake up to bright blue skies and sunshine yesterday morning. It’s not Summer here anymore so I thought it would be chilly even though it was sunny. I was pleasantly surprised that it was about 20*C! I wish [...]
