May 12, 2007

A Great Start

240 days, 8 months, 14 countries, 80 cities, countless adventures later, we return home. A little bit older and wiser.

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May 04, 2007

Buenos Aires: tango, Tango, TANGO!

There is something about Buenos Aires that makes you want to put on 4 inch heels, a slinky dress, and stay up 'til dawn, eating steak, dancing tango, and drinking Fernet. Unfortunately, we can't keep our eyes open past 2, the taste of Fernet makes us gag, and Nelson doesn't look good in heels - so we will just stick with the steak for now.

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May 01, 2007

Argentina/Chile Part IV: 33 Degrees South

What is it about latitude 33 South? Like a line across the continent, the great cities of Chile and Argentina hover around this marker (Valparaiso, Santiago, Mendoza, Buenos Aires) - bursting with history, culture, and wine. We visit them all during the swan song of our big adventure.

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April 30, 2007

Argentina/Chile Part III: Lago Land

Beautiful green peaks, crystalline lakes, and chocolate shops on every corner. What more could two weary travelers ask for?

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April 28, 2007

Argentina/Chile Part II: Fin del Mundo

Giant adventure awaits us as we almost fall off the end of the world during our time in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia. After a stint in Buenos Aires, we head way south to cruise through the Beagle Channel, accompanied by seals and penguins. We watch and listen to glaciers crash. We climb Andean peaks. We spend hours staring into the emptiness of the Patagonian tundra. Like the exploers and frontiersfolk that have come before us, we wander through wild places and ponder the big questions in life in these glorious wide open spaces.

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April 24, 2007

Argentina/Chile Part I: The North

No words explain the joy Maxmitch feel at the moment we cross into Argentina. We are instantly transported to another continent (one situated somewhere in the ocean between the Americas and Europe), where everyone speaks with an Italian accent, eats a steak every night, celebrates every weekend until dawn, and, overall, lives life with such gusto and style that Spaniards and Italians look like teetotalers. This place is great.

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