Author: Mike
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Let’s Go to the Rodeo!
Reading Time: 6 minutesTraveling around Chile, you can feel the influence of the estancias – the ranches. Tied in with that is the rodeo and the rodeo is a part of life in many of the towns across the country, in particular the regions where we have been traveling. Sandy was doing some research recently… Read more
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Enjoying Chile’s Capital – Santiago
Reading Time: 7 minutesFrom Puerto Varas, we moved on to Chile’s capital – Santiago. Santiago is a city of around seven million citizens, and it offers just about anything you could want. We were here seven years ago for the Depeche tour and we both remembered liking Santiago, but we didn’t have specific reasons that… Read more
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Puerto Varas, Chile – Quite Livable
Reading Time: 6 minutesIn terms of places we think we could live, we usually conclude that we could live just about anywhere if we had to do so. Meaning we’d find ways to make different locales work for us. That’s not to say that everywhere we go, we find ideal. Puerto Varas comes close. We’ve… Read more
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The Carretera Austral – What a Drive!!
Reading Time: 10 minutesHere is how Lonely Planet introduces the Carretera Austral (Southern Highway): one serious drive, it winds along some of Patagonia’s most dramatic scenery, with exuberant rainforest, scrubby steppe, smoking volcanoes, snow-dusted mountains, and expansive farmsteads framed in windows. But it’s water that truly defines this landscape, from the clear cascading rivers to… Read more
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Chiloe Island, Chile
Reading Time: 7 minutesWe ended up spending a total of 10 days on Chiloe Island in the very northern part of Patagonia. I guess technically, Chiloe would not be a part of Patagonia and more considered part of the lakes region. We originally planned eight days, but the ferry to get us to our next… Read more
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A Big Reason Why We Have Patagonia in Our Top 20
Reading Time: 7 minutesThis update includes that reason but let’s start where we left off – leaving Punta Arenas. Moving day on Sunday was pretty uneventful, which is always nice. We wanted to go back to Be Happy for breakfast but they weren’t open yet and so we found a little café not too far… Read more
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The Southern Reaches of Patagonia
Reading Time: 13 minutesWe’ve spent the last ten days exploring the southern reaches of Patagonia – a week in Ushuaia on the Argentine side and then a few days in Punta Arenas on the Chilean side. It’s a beautiful part of South America and covers a huge area, so we plan to also spend time… Read more
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Some of the Most Beautiful Waterfalls on the Planet
Reading Time: 8 minutesOther than the cruise, we didn’t have Argentina on our top 20 countries to visit during this journey but our friend, Jonette, mentioned Iguazu Falls while we were visiting her in Minneapolis, and we decided to hop up to see them since we were relatively close. And what a great decision that… Read more
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Our Seventh Continent!
Reading Time: 9 minutesOn the morning of January 21st, we got a four-mile cardio walk in following the same route through various parks and then grabbed our belongings at the hotel to get a local bus from the area near the hotel to the cruise terminal in Buenos Aires. We arrived at the terminal around… Read more
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Buenos Dias from Buenos Aires
Reading Time: 4 minutesYear number two started on Saturday morning in Bozeman, Montana. We had a perfect visit for a few days with the Coley family and all met up for breakfast at Jam! Afterward, Chad and Lucy dropped us off at the airport for our 11:55am flight to Atlanta. It left a little late… Read more