Our guidebook called Peninsula Valdes on Argentina’s mid-Atlantic coast “…one of the world’s great nature preserves.” We’ve learned guide books are sometimes prone to hyperbole but we couldn’t pass up this gem on our drive up National Route 3 towards Buenos Aires. And the promise of seeing animals we had rarely or never seen before made the opportunity a must do. That is how we found ourselves camped in the … Continue reading →
Julie and I had spent nine months travelling south since we left Prudhoe Bay on Alaska’s shores of the Arctic Ocean. Since that time we had passed through Alaska, Canada and the continental United States, through Mexico and Central America, shipped Tramp to South America and driven the entire length of the continent to arrive at the end of the road, the southernmost point you can drive on the continent. … Continue reading →
A casual look at a map of southern Chile tells you the obvious – there aren’t many roads down here. The severe mountains, glaciers, fjords, inland waterways, rivers and extreme weather make roads a luxury. After more than a week in northern Chile we had jumped over into Argentina to take the memorable Ruta National 40 bypass of the roadless section of Chile. Now we were crossing back into the … Continue reading →
Ruta National 40 is said to be loneliest road in Argentina. On a broader scale it would rival some of those in outback Australia or perhaps Alaska as the loneliest road in the world. Stretching the entire length of Argentina, itself the 8th largest country in the world, Ruta National 40 runs through endless tracks of desert scrub and loneliness, much of it gravel with very few turns and even … Continue reading →
