On a full belly of divine beef and sausages we board the overnight bus from Bariloche to Puerto Madryn, this Latin odyssey is fast nearing a farewell we’re not yet ready to make. It might be the uplifted mentality from the hiking or it might be that we’re enjoying the dabble back into the food […]
What a crazy thought, waking up in this place to go and walk to another ridiculously pristine lake hung high in these grand mountains, silly. Strangely enough that’s fast becoming a very standard past time, this area of mountainous wilderness we have plunged so far into just seems to run these things out like a […]
Frey refugio turned on a sunset to die for last night to send us off to bed, blazing skies erupting from behind the row of soldiers that form the amphitheatre around the lake. From a beautiful sunrise we are brought into a new day in which we farewell this amazing place on the walk to […]
Metaphorically bathed in chocolate we venture out of Bariloche, not without samples of delicious 80% and 90% cocoa bars, a necessity for any hike we have decided. Our conflict within Bariloche is unavoidable, it’s a crazy place so full of fanciful chocolate that one expects to see characters from Willy Wonka’s factory casually strolling the […]
The alternative slant that was El Bolson is now in the past, we find ourselves a short skip north on the highway to Bariloche, a place we had visited nine years ago. From everything that represents a simple life and extraction from commercialism we step off the bus into flashy chocolate heaven and a marketers […]
We’ve touched down in El Bolson, hippie capital of Argentina apparently and after our wholesomely pure walk into the forest it’s market day. Considering we are carrying our lives on our backs we really can’t collect souvenirs but there is conveniently no carry on baggage limit to our stomachs so it’s time to suck up. […]
The road trip is soon to come to a slow halt in El Bolson. Towards the end of this migration of buses and nothingness the Argentinian hippie mecca acts as a fitting place to slow down, relax and abandon our recent rapid tempo. It seems that Charles Darwin’s description of eternal nothingness of Tierra Del […]
Leaving the playground that is El Chalten we carry fond affections for this place already only after just a few days; for a moment new adventures ahead are tinted with a fondness for what we leave behind. It’s night bus number twelve for us in this South American affair and we’re slowly adapting to our […]
I’m up at about 5am but the alarm is not going to go off till 6am, today is a little exciting, a child again on Christmas eve waiting for the house to stir to race to the Christmas tree. At the crude chime of the alarm it’s all battle stations, for the first time in […]
It’s a common expression really, a mountain being posed as the grammatical expression of an immovable object; one can’t move a mountain after all. With our home on our backs we step by step implant our existence into wilderness grand, imposing and immovable. Burdened with everything we need for shelter and survival brings with us […]
Charlie and Steve's Excellent Adventure 