Another late start. We didn’t leave the campsite until midday. A very different day’s drive. Scenically we are in the mountains again, among thick pine forests. Now it is pretty much mid-summer so there is only snow on the highest peaks. It is a very different road to the flat,…
There’s something about the number of miles we have done in the last four days. Two days with exactly the same number of miles and they all add to 1000 miles. No wonder we are both tired. I had to pull off the road this afternoon for a 15min snooze…
In Perito Moreno Today was a slow day. It wasn’t intentional, it just turned out that way. We were reluctant to get up, so by the time we had had breakfast, showered, packed up and Dennis had replenished our water supply, it was 11.20. We had quite a long drive,…
Before departing the camp this morning I had to put a couple more wire stitches in the drivers side front mudflap. It was hanging on the former two stitches. Also, after all the dusty driving of the last few days, changed the air filter element. I’ll wash the dirty one…
Leaving El Chalten As Dennis mentioned in yesterday’s blog, we had decided to go to the view point to photograph Mount Fitz Roy this morning, as last night the sun had been completely in the wrong position. Sadly when we arrived there, the view was rather disappointing. In the winter,…
There must be a mouse in our fridge. As soon as we buy food, it’s gone!! Off to the supermarket again. There’s something else we need to buy too. A tyre pressure gauge. I must have put it down by a wheel after taking the dust cap off and not…
El Calafate We were lucky. The day dawned warm and sunny. Perfect weather for viewing the glacier. First we drove into town to see if we could find a tyre pressure gauge at Ferreteria Yamat. No luck there, though. Next we needed fuel. The gas station in the centre of…
Waking at 9am this morning to sunshine, Jen said, “let’s stay here another day”. There were no complaints from me. There are things I need to attend to on Poki and Jen wants to do some washing. Work on Poki. On arrival at the camp yesterday afternoon, when climbing onto…
Pehoe Camping We didn’t stay up to see the new year in. However, we were woken at about 2am by our neighbours slamming car doors. Very inconsiderate of them, we thought. They had arrived late in the evening and had asked if they could park next to us and put…
There were serious black clouds gathering in the north east and it looked like we would be in for a serious dousing during the night. The Caranex was prepared before going to bed at 10.30pm. still quite light. There was a frenzy of activity last night to get the blog…