Fri, 6 Dec 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [184]
EVEN FOUR DECKS UP, SPRAY FROM the bow streamed down our balcony windows. Oosterdam had been fighting gale-force winds and three-meter waves since we sailed back into the Pacific. Everyone was weaving like winos on a Friday night and the west wind ... Read more >
Sun, 8 Dec 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [89]
HISTORICALLY—BEFORE THE PANAMA CANAL—the main reason to go to Punta Arenas was to continue on to somewhere else. Magellan and his fleet didn’t tarry long, leaving only his name. Ernest Shackleton, Raold Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott ... Read more >
Tue, 19 Mar 2024 | By shaz | Views [85]
This was my third attempt visiting Chile and this time I was successful. I entered Chile through the land border from Ushuaia. It was relatively easy albeit all in Spanish but the coach drivers told us exactly what to do, gave us the correct forms and ... Read more >
Wed, 4 Dec 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [74]
IN A PERFECT WORLD WE WOULD stick around this part of Patagonia for a week or so—I would also be twenty years younger. Puerto Varas on Lago Llanquihue is the adventure center for hiking, birding and fishing but to get here you first have to go ... Read more >
Sun, 1 Dec 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [65]
PUERTO COQUIMBO LOOKED BETTER at dawn with its signature stick-figure concrete cross lighted than when we went ashore later Saturday morning. And in morning’s light we could see some of the wrecks that littered the harbor—another reason to ... Read more >
Sun, 1 Dec 2024 | By vagabonds3 | Photo Gallery
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Tue, 19 Mar 2024 | By shaz | Photo Gallery
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