Trail de los Gringos It hit me about 10 minutes ago, walking down the sunny streets of Buenos Aires that today is my last day in South America. I´ve been on this continent now since early November had many cool experiences and met a number of great people. Traditionally the tourist trail that runs from the north to the south of the contient is called the gringo trail, the scary thing about it is that it seems to contain relatively small population of travellers...

<!-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> Today was the last day of hiking for my boots. I'm very sad at this as they have been a really good pair of boots and I have grown especially attatched to them over the last few months. Though the leather and soles are still servicable the Gortex lining on the inside had come adrift. On top of this I don't expect to be doing much off trail hiking on the remainder of my j...

Went to see Perito Moreno glacier which was amazing....had some scotch with glacial ice which was neat. Unfortunately it was raining all day and due to a wardrobe malfunction I got a really wet bottom half. [We walked on the glacier with crampons which was cool, but because of the rain could have been better. On a sunny day the effect of the sun shining through the ice on the glacier would have been unbelievable] Back in Argentina have moved to the northe...

From Buenos Aires we caught a flight south to Patagonia spent the night in the Argentinian town of El Calafate. After having a steak for lunch (which was declared by Rob as the best steak he'd ever had supassing the one 18-hours prior) [it was!! - Brisbane's steak reserauntts have a lot of catching up to do] we managed to procure some beer and retire to the hotel. The next morning saw us on a bus heading toward the Chilian boarder and ultimately the Torres Del P...

After the trauma at the Mendoza pool Rob and I caught an overnight bus to Buenos Aires. I know that bus travel is susposed to be much more ecologically sound than air travel (maybe I'll get some additional carbon credits for my journey through Latin America) but does this still count if the bus (a double decker no less) only carries 26 people.......I'd booked a Primero class bus for this 12hour jaunt and I can catagorically say it was the best bus yet, seats tha...