So, after a long break in posting anything, let’s catch up on what happened over the last few months of the trip and where we are now. After making it all the way south to Ushuaia, we headed back north via the Carreterra Austral. We spent some more time in the Lakes District, Valparaiso and […]
We entered the Carreterra Austral in style, veering off paved Ruta 40 onto deserted dirt roads towards the border. Except for the border officials, we didn’t see another car for 200km. When we crossed the border, we saw the previous person had crossed 2 days ago. On the Chilean side, we passed through Parque Patagonia, […]
Connected to Torres del Paine via the Southern Patagonian Icefield is another park in Argentina, Los Glaciares. To get there, we crossed at a small border with just 2 people working. There’s very little population in this part of the world, so whenever you pass a town, it can be quite a while before you […]
The strange feeling we got from reaching the destination we had been thinking about for the past year quickly passed as we headed back to the South American mainland. After a quick tire change we headed out of Punta Arenas for a hike toward Cabo Froward, the southernmost point of the mainland. We went for a beautiful […]
After long driving days from the Lakes District, we reached Rio Gallegos in the south of Argentina. For the first time since the very north of Chile / Argentina, we needed to cross a border and pass through Chile to get to the southern tip of Argentina. Lazy as we are, we decided to risk it […]
Coming out of the Laguna Route of Bolivia is a strange experience. After 500km of slow-going roads (you can’t go faster than 15-20 mph because of all the corrugation) and high elevation, we crossed the border and got onto pavement at the next intersection. A quick drive down the hill (2,000m elevation loss in 30km) and […]