Category: South America

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...

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...

On The Road! (Finally)

Dateline Santiago de Chile Friday 24/02/2023     It’s finally happening for real! We are heading south! It’s not all been plane sailing for all of us though. Poor Scott and Gina are stuck...

Hello Santiago!

Dateline Santiago de Chile , Wednesday 22/02/2023   From our hotel  window!   Everything is going to plan….so far! All flights were smooth and on time. We checked into our hotel in Santiago on...

We’re Outta Here!

The day is finally here. We left Tassie this morning, well technically this afternoon, on the first leg of our journey to South America. We were delivered to Launceston Airport by our fabulous friends/house...

The Map!

Seven Days to GO! The map above is a rough outline of our intended route starting in Santiago, Chile and finishing 100 days later on the Caribbean Coast at Cartagena, Colombia. South America is...