Hello from the End of the World! Except for the Inca ruins in Peru, I haven´t had the sense of history here in South America that one gets traveling through Europe. That is until I reached this southern tip of the Continent. The Straights of Magellan, the Drake Passage, the Beagle Channel (named after Charles Darwin´s ship) immediately invoke images of the first adventurers to explore our world and circumnavigate the globe. This adventurous spiri...

Trekking in Torres del Paine The second day of our trek consisted of hiking with full packs along an unbelievable series of lakes, each with a distinct color caused by a unique mix of minerals and glacial runoff - from deep blue, to azure, to bright aqua-green. We crossed many mountains streams and rushing rapids on a variety of shaky plank bridges or just stones and logs placed stepping distance apart. The trail was dotted with spring flowers - ...

Chilean Patagonia We started our adventure in Chilean Patagonian with a day in Puerto Natalias, the staging area for excursions to the Torres del Paine National Park. It´s a wind swept port city surrounded by volcanic peaks topped with snow. Every 10 minutes the weather changes dramatically. One second it´s sunny, then raining, then windy, then sunny again, then it starts to snow, then it´s sunny with rain (apparently from the cloud...