Author: Rex and Sally
The Best Laid Schemes of Mice and Men
Dateline Cusco, Peru…. Chiclayo, Peru and Sheffield, Tasmania. Tuesday 09/05/2023 to Saturday 20/05/2023 Should a journey necessarily have an ending? Must there really be a full stop at the end of the road?...
The Trouble with Peru
Dateline Cusco, Peru. Tuesday, 09/05/2023 We are leaving our comfortable digs in the madness that is La Paz, Bolivia and heading west to face who knows what. Traffic in the city is truly...
Good Roads, Death Roads and No Roads At All
Dateline Uyuni, Bolivia. Thursday 19/04/2023 Bolivia is a strange and wonderful place. We have been at high altitudes now for over a week and it is slowly getting easier though we still get occasional...
We’re not in Kansas anymore!
Dateline Purmamarca, Argentina. Saturday 15/04/2023 We leave Salta and make the short 158km run north to the quirky and charming village of Purmamarca. We start the day in cool rain and fog as...
Salsa in Salta
Dateline Salta Province, Argentina. Thursday 13/04/2023 Ok so not exactly the Salsa but a high energy blend of Salsa, Flamenco and Tango all performed at volume eleven accompanied by a four piece Latin...
Bonito
Dateline Bonito, Pantanal Region, Brazil. Friday 07/04/2023 Bonito is the Portuguese word for beautiful. It is also the name of a small town in the edge of the Pantanal region of Brasil, except...
Rio de Janeiro
Dateline Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Sunday 02/04/2023 Brasil is a country of over 200,000,000 people in a land area about two thirds that of Australia. All those people need to be fed so...
Meltdown in the Tropics.
Dateline Foz Do Iguacu, Brazil. Sunday 26/03/2023 When travelling in new parts of the world it is probably appropriate to lower ones’ expectations and thus avoid disappointment. It is fair to say that...
Buenos Aires!
Dateline Buenos Aires, Argentina. Wednesday 22/03/2023 Buenos Aires is ridiculously large. Some 16 million people live in the greater metropolitan area. It is also a ridiculously long way from Ushuaia. When we last...