So, we’re in our room at Don Tomas in San Pedro de Atacama not sleeping for one reason or another (happens when you change beds often) after a long day on the Moon, and we see lights pulling into the driveway outside our window at 4:30 am. We assumed it was an airport shuttle for…

We’re finally getting around to writing about the last of our adventures in Chile. The post about our amazing visit to El Tatio in the Atacama Desert is coming soon. We have some wonderful pictures of the geysers and thermal pools with us bundled up and freezing at high altitude. We visited El Tatio on…

Experiencing one of the driest places on the planet is part of the attraction of the Atacama Desert of Chile, however, the desert is not without its lakes and oases or completely uninhabitable. San Pedro de Atacama is one of those oases where people have settled and carved what green they can out of the…

Our base of operations in the northern section of Chile was San Pedro de Atacama, about one hour’s drive from the mining town of Calama where the airport is located. It was in interesting entry into the airport in Calama as almost everyone on the plane fit into the category of male Chilean mining workers…

Many of our destinations on this trip have been a study in extremes. I loved the contrast of visiting a giant piece of ice in the form of Glacier Perito Moreno and then later in the trip visiting one of the largest flows of freshwater in the world at Iguazú Falls. Our visit to Ushuaia…

Valparaiso — where to start…this is going to be a tough post to write as I’m not sure how to capture this amazing place in words. I have to say that the first thing that comes to mind is simply how completely an unlikely a place this is. If there is a city built in…

Pablo Neruda is probably one of Chile’s most famous personalities. As a poet, activist, and advocate for his country, his name and the country are indelibly linked. I’ll only do a poor job of describing his poetry and contributions to his country and the world of literature. You can read about Pablo Neruda from many…

We were really looking forward to visiting Chile and had originally planned to start our travels there. Unfortunately and fortunately, Chile’s COVID restrictions made us change our plans and start in Argentina. We ended up spending more than 3 months in Argentina and had a great time. When it looked like barriers to entering Chile…

You may have noticed that we went a while without posting anything about our travels. After enjoying the mountains and desert in the Salta region, we hopped on a direct flight to Iguazu on the border with Brazil to see the amazing jungle waterfalls there. Afterward, we flew back to Buenos Aires so we could…

It is with more than a bit of regret that we say farewell to Argentina. Never did we expect to spend three months here, but now it seems there was no way we could not. Three months is nothing in a country so huge and varied. As we head across the border into Chile, it…