Archives for March 2023

We’re not much of a horse riding family, and so we signed up for a new experience at La Peninsula ranch. We enjoyed riding horses so much on the first day (despite the wind and rain), we actually cancelled kayaking on the second day to ride horses again. The weather the second day was perfect. […]

This was an unexpected part of our trip to Grey Glacier. We had hiked the previous day about six miles to the refugio at Grey Glacier. The morning after camping, according to our schedule, we were to catch a boat out of Grey Glacier to reach a car waiting for us at the road. The […]

After a quick glimpse of Salto Grande waterfall, we caught a morning ferry to the trailhead for the roughly six mile hike to Grey Glacier. It would be our longest hike during our ten day tour of Torres Del Paine, and we’d be completing in with a hiker as young as 8 and as old […]

We left hotel Tierra Patagonia in the late morning for a flat hike along Laguna Verde. The trailhead was only about an hour from the hotel. It was a pleasant hike along the lagoons. We spotted a couple of flamingos, ate wild mushrooms called Indian Bread, and reached a wonderful mirador overlooking the Paine massif. […]

We left the seemingly endless grasslands of the ranch at Baguales for our first hike in Torres Del Paine park. It was a short hike, and a good warm up for several days of hiking in the park. We hiked a few miles on the Sarmiento trail, which provided great views of the Torres Del […]

As part of our ten day excursion to various parts of the Torres Del Paine region, we spent a couple of days staying at the ranch in Baguales. I love the name, Baguales, which means something along the lines of an animal that should be tamable (like a horse or a cow) but cannot be […]

Before we left for Chile, Mark suggested we visit the Amazon while we were in the neighborhood of South America. We’d been planning camping trips, so when he said “Amazon”, I pictured tents, pythons, dart frogs, and many creatures of the night. I hard “no-ed” it. After planning and replanning some things, we decided to […]

We were pleased to arrive in Puerto Natales, concluding a 5,000 mile road trip from Santaigo, Chile. We had traveled all over the Los Lagos district, completed the Carretera Austral in northern Patagonia, and driven down through Argentina to reach southern Patagonia. We arrived in Natales a week before kicking off a ten day tour […]

We only stayed in El Calafate for a couple days. I didn’t know what we were getting into at El Calafate. It felt like a town in the American west, like Jackson Hole or Bozeman, dropped into Argentina. It was touristy and full of English speaking travelers. We enjoyed our time, ate some decent food, […]