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Tour de Chico

I woke up to the searing rays of the sun trying to force their way through my eyelids.  Our night sleeping on top of the truck had been pleasant and cool, but with the coming of dawn the air temperature started to rise quickly, and my sleeping bag began to feel like a furnace.  I [...]

Watch out for the whales!

Our journey to explore the southern portions of Argentina and Chile started on a hot, balmy day.  We left Buenos Aires headed south, a 1000 miles of flat featureless highway waiting to be traversed between BA and our first destination- the Peninsula Valdez.  The air conditioning had broken almost two months before in northern Chile, [...]

Bonjour from BA!

Buenos Aires is the so called Paris of South America.  Broad, tree lined avenues cut the city into a puzzle of neighborhoods, each one distinct and exceptional in its own right.  From the hip and trendy Palermo neighborhood with its bohemian roots, to the old quarter of San Telmo where antique stalls choke the cobbled [...]