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It’s strange being in an airport after all of this, but here we are. This is it. The end. A year has just about passed since we left our little home on Beacon Hill in Seattle. 29,000 miles, [...]

After staying at a hotel for Benjamin’s birthday, we stayed in Salta at its municipal campground, where Nate realized that he and Mom had -accidentally- taken the movie Interstellar that was in [...]

The Mendoza province greeted us with red and yellow rock formations.The sky, enormous and deep. We drove down through a rocky canyon, the Andes covered with snow on the west, and at the end of [...]

After leaving Los Alerces national park, we arrived in El Bolsón, the supposed hippie town of Argentina. The arrival was relatively uneventful; we just stopped at a tourist office and drove [...]

Editor’s note:  To listen to this blog post as an audio piece and to hear some of Jason’s music, click on the SoundCloud link below.     Compromise is the name of the game for this [...]

Patagonia is a glacier-infused place. Chances are, if you look left you’ll see a glacier and if you look right, you’ll see another glacier. Puerto Natales, the gateway to Torres del [...]

We arrived. To the immense, the dramatic, the spectacular Patagonia. Actually, we had arrived a while ago. The Chilean Patagonia begins in Puerto Montt but Benjamin forgot to mention this tiny [...]

We left Conguillío Park, passing more huge coigües and monkey-puzzle trees. As we got closer to the volcano, more and more dead trees spotted the sides of the road until we came through to a huge [...]

The black line on the map is getting longer. It’s approaching the bottom now and things back in time, further north are beginning to blur together. “No, I don’t remember that meal” becomes, “No, [...]

When we arrived to Huasco, 855 miles from the Chile-Peru border, we had “only” been in the desert 26 days. It seems like it had been 40 days and 40 nights. We were even seeing things: [...]