Turning Around: Puerto Varas to San Martin del los Andes
For the first time in 25 months, the little digital compass readout on our rearview mirror (a mirror rendered otherwise useless with our...
Mother Nature is Fierce: El Chalten to El Calafate
The road out of Chile was rough and bumpy. For hours we drove on washboard roads, snaking up through the mountains and then back down to...
Patagonia! - Pto. Guadal to Pto. Tranquilo
Patagonia. The land of the explorer, the outlaw, the exiled – people drawn to the sheer enormity of its physical space. This is where the...
Penguin Distraction: Punta Tombo to Dos Bahias
I started this blog post writing about penguins. And eventually it will be about penguins. I have gone back and forth on writing about...
Do Whales Snore? - Península Valdés
We didn’t start out on this long drive just to end it in BA. We are going to Ushuaia, to the end of the world, and it’s time to make some pr
On the Run: San Pedro de Atacama to Iguazú Falls
Sometimes I feel like we are on the run from the law. Like we’re fugitives. We move locations every couple of days making us hard to...
Mission to Mars: Southwest Bolivia
After the incredibly beautiful moonscape that was the Salar de Uyuni, we were off to our next destination (or planet) depending on how...
A trip to the moon: La Paz to Uyuni
The Southwest corner of Bolivia is a harsh and intimidating landscape. The Uyuni Salt Flat in Bolivia and the Southwest circuit (also...
High in the Sacred Sky: Ollantaytambo to Cusco
The route to Cusco takes us up over 15,000 feet through the Peruvian Andes, where small villages of herders occasionally dot the...
The Long Way Brown: Máncora to Nazca
The scenery changes as soon as we cross into Peru. The trees give way to brown sand and desolate terrain. For miles and miles, our eyes...
