Four short months after our last departure from Buenos Aires, we are back again, on another journey to visit more of this amazing continent. Our travels will take us through the Andean Northwest of Argentina, then into Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador…
Outrunning El Niño
February is not the ideal time to visit northern Argentina, yet here we were. It is the equivalent of August in North America and Europe so locals all are on vacation as well. In addition, this part of the country…
Exploring the Puna
Although the travel can be challenging, we soon realized that the highlands of Argentina’s Andean Puna are definitely worth visiting. Of course, we didn’t begin to realize this until about 24 hours after we crossed the border at Paso Sico……
Into the Desert
Traveling as we do permits us to change our itinerary at the last moment without being encumbered with hotel reservations to cancel. Although I’d had uncertainties about traveling to a desert in summer, we had checked the temperature and it…
Heading North
Big cities are not our thing. Though they are often cultural treasures, as overland travelers we find them hectic, crowded, hard to navigate, and… stressful. That said, we ended up staying in Santiago longer than we normally would because we…
Family Holiday Part 2
We drove for 2 hours on a decent road from Valdivia to Pucón, a lovely spot in the Araucanía Region. It is set on picturesque Lago Villarrica, under the watchful eye of the smoldering volcano of the same name. Volcán…
Family Holiday Part 1
The long awaited arrival of our hijas (daughters) was very near! The weather had changed and we drove from Puerto Varas to Puerto Montt Airport in the rain. Andre had been informed about a “shortcut” that we couldn’t find. We…
Along the Ripio (Unpaved) Road
Back on the mainland, we had 3 days before Andrea and Danielle arrived in Puerto Montt. Always eager to go somewhere new and different, we decided to travel along part of the famous Carretera Austral, also known as Ruta 7. …
Along La Ruta de Las Islas
For various reasons we have not been able to update our site since early December. Now we are in San Pedro de Atacama,, some 2,750 km (1,709 miles) north of Isla Grande de Chiloé. It makes more sense to us…
Getting reacquainted
Andre has more cousins in Chile than he does in France. Most of them live in southern and middle Chile and we were lucky to meet many of them during our brief visit, earlier this year. This time we have…