<!-- @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...

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...