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Posts from ‘May, 2010’

Check one off The List!

Before we left on this trip, Kacey and I sat down and brainstormed for a list of places and sights we wanted to see.  At the top of the list was the obvious Machupicchu of Peru, the Temples of the Sun and Moon in Mexico, the granite spires of Torres del Paine in Southern Chile, [...]

A wine-cycle built for two

After saying good-bye to Kathy in Valparaiso, we loaded up the Golden Gringo and drove east.  My Birthday was in two days and I was excited to celebrate the big 27 in Mendoza, Argentina.  We edited our itinerary a bit so that we could stop in El Cajon del Maipo, a long valley stretching from [...]

Valpo… si po!

We bid farewell to the big city of Santiago and drove west to the neighboring coastal towns of Viña del Mar and Valparaiso.  The scenery was stunning, filled with rolling green hills, crops, and vineyards- the long rows of grapevines teased our taste buds with the thought of the delicious wine we knew they would [...]