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...
Author: Rex and Sally
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...
A Yank, A Pom and an Aussie Walk Into a Bar.
Dateline Cerro Sombrero, Chile Wednesday 15/03/2023 If the weather last night looked awful then it is downright diabolical today. We leave Ushuaia, finally heading north after 4,600km of southward travel, in pouring rain...
The End of the World
Dateline Ushuaia Argentina. Monday 13/03/2023 Southward, ever southward the road beckons. From Torres Del Paine we leave the mountains again and return to the endless treeless steppe. Sheep, guanacos and the occasional rhea...
Glaciers and a Good Telling Off from the Argentinian Navy
Dateline El Calafate, Argentina. Thursday 09/03/2023 We leave El Chalten in our mirrors under clearing skies with the relentless Patagonian wind at our backs. Without the pouring rain of our arrival we are...
Cerro Fitzroy
Dateline Cerro Fitzroy, El Chalten, Argentina. Monday 06/03/2023 Cerro Fitzroy is perhaps the most photographed mountain in all South America. The soaring vertical granite spires tower menacingly over the tiny tourist town...
Gravel Roads, Argentinian Barbeque and Pumas.
Dateline Ruta 40 Argentina. Sunday 05/03/2023 Today we get our first taste of the real Ruta 40, the historic trade route that links Ushuaia in the south with the rest of Argentina. It...
Butch Cassidy and the Bureaucratic Bungle
Dateline La Chila, Argentina, Friday 03/03/2023 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (not their real names) were a pair of notorious outlaws in the USA around 1890 to 1900. Their lives have...
Corruption and the Black Market in Argentina
Dateline Paso Tromen, Chile/Argentina border. Wednesday 01/03/2023 Chile is a modern, prosperous and these days even relatively stable country. As a consequence prices are roughly equivalent to Australia. Argentina will be a new...
Volcanoes, Parades and Pisco Sours.
Dateline Pucon Chile, Monday 27/02/2023 Today I climbed a mountain. Not just any old mountain but Quetrupillan, a wild and rugged, mostly dormant volcano in Chile near the Argentinian border in the...
