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 [...]
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: [...]
Abuelito and Abuelita surprised us when they said they would join us in Peru for a couple of weeks. We had been staying in The Elf hotel in Cusco for one night waiting for them to arrive. Mom and [...]