Torres del Paine

This past week we visited Chile’s Torres del Paine National Park, near the southern tip of the Andes about 250 miles north of Cape Horn. Located on the 51st parallel–about as far south of the equator as Quebec City is north of it–the park is famously windy, and the weather …

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First Missive from Argentina

We arrived in Buenos Aires early Saturday morning, February 3, after 2 flights and 10 hours of flight time. We allowed ourselves three days for roaming around Buenos Aires, checking out the craft beer explosion underway near our AirBnB loft apartment ($63/night) in the trendy Palermo Soho neighborhood (yum), visiting …

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We’re off again!

After spending a few weeks at home with Dylan and Stephanie (thanks you two!) catching up with friends and attending to various matters that are more difficult to do from the road, we’re leaving town again on February 2 (coincidentally, the same date as our wedding in Paraguay way back …

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Life After Death (Valley)

We are weeks behind in our blogging. Aargh!! As I write this, on December 2, we are in West Texas in the heart of Big Bend National Park.  Our last blog talked about Death Valley, which we visited from November 7-11 and we’ve travelled many miles since then.  It’s hard …

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Death Valley: We Loved It

We left Joshua Tree National Park for Death Valley with a sense of excitement and adventure.  I vividly remembered a 2007 conversation in which a friend told me that Death Valley was one of her favorite national parks.  “What??!!” I was astonished.  More recently, we heard about others similarly saying …

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