Day 97. Tuesday 3rd December. YPF service station in Puerto San Julian to Municipal Camping, Puerto Santa Cruz. 109 miles or 175k’s. Latitude 50deg S.

Another great sleep, despite trucks moving during the night. Importantly the wind died down and the Caranex was still. Wifi was very spasmodic but once most of the trucks had left by 8.30am, it became good enough to get Jen’s blog from yesterday, posted. It took the claw hammer to…

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Day 95. Sunday 1st December 2024. Hostel Patagonia & Camp Site. Chile Chico. Chile. to YPF Service Station. Las Heras. Argentina. miles 157 or 252k’s.

Yesterday, while photographing the Green or Blue lake, three males asked me where we came from. “New Zealand”, I said. The older one repeated it in Spanish to his younger protege’s. He then said to me in English, “Maori”. “Very impressive”, I said to him. He then went on to…

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Day 91. Wednesday 27th November. Camping & Glamping Manihueico, on Ruta 7, the Carretera Austral. Waiting to board the Ferry Klio, at Pichicolo. 65miles or 104k’s.

Distance traveled, so far. Looking at the miles we have driven since Cartagena, nearly 3 months ago…8100miles or 13000k’s. We still have another 2500 k’s to go to get to Ushuaia, at the bottom of South America. Then start the journey north again, on the eastern side of the continent.…

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Day 89. Monday 25th November. From a marginal camp in Pucon to likewise, 7k’s from Los Lagos. Chile. 100miles or 160k’s. 223421

Some priority’s. Resolve the wifi issue. It’s difficult to know the meaning of the repeated txt messages from the cell phone company. Are they about to terminate our supply? Are they trying to sell us something? So after packing up and saying good-bye to our reclusive neighbour’s beautiful border collie…

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