Dear All, As many of you have figured out by now, both Nick and I made it home safely to Melbourne from our last stop of Santiago, Chile. After my harrowing defeat at the [more...]
What we ended up actually doing… As you can see… we made one or two little deviations from the original plan. The most major of these was a trip to the US of A to [more...]
A collection of some of the more interesting signs… some spanglish, some are inglespanol… some are just silly. Most of the jokes are lewd and tasteless, so if [more...]
A moment of good visibility… This one one of a series of travel emails I sent to friends and family who wished to follow my travels through Latin America in the first [more...]
Puerto Montt (1/6/07 – 3/6/07) The closest significant Chilean city to Bariloche was Puerto Montt which I decided would be my launching point to either Coyhaique or [more...]
A feeble attempt at capturing the enormity of the Iguazu Falls This one one of a series of travel emails I sent to friends and family who wished to follow my travels through [more...]
Buenos Aires (16/5/07 – 19/5/07) I arrived in Buenos Aires by boat from Montevideo… I immediately took the subway to the centre of town and started knocking on [more...]
Montevideo (14/5/07 – 15/5/07) After Rio, all my “planned” destinations were in much colder locations… so I sent some stuff home. Mostly summer stuff, [more...]
Foz do Iguaçu (4/5/07 – 5/5/07) The Iguazu falls are South America’s mightiest. Mightiest? You might say… I did. In a land which already boasts such [more...]
Our car at the hot springs This one one of a series of travel emails I sent to friends and family who wished to follow my travels through Latin America in the first half of [more...]
Asuncion (1/5/07 – 3/5/07) Paraguay was never intended as a long stopover. In fact, there were only two things on my list for Paraguay – the Chaco, the sparsely [more...]
Trekking through Peruvian highlands This one one of a series of travel emails I sent to friends and family who wished to follow my travels through Latin America in the first [more...]
Copacabana (20/4/07 – 22/4/07) Bolivia is a place I have only previously known through reading about its dire hyperinflation in the chapter “Bolivia’s high [more...]
Lima (5/4/07 – 8/4/07) The wealthy and affluent capital of Peru and once the capital of Spanish South America (all of South America except Brazil). A very large [more...]
Quito (2/4/07 – 5/4/07) Quito is one of the few places in the world where the pilot actually has to *decompress* the cabin prior to landing. Most of the time, the plane [more...]