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 […]
We’ve attained the ranking of supreme lords of overnight buses after eleven nocturnal journeys in six countries taking us nearly the the entire length of the continent. Always a good time to try something new, we jump on the daytime bus for the hop-skip north to El Chalten at the base of Cerro Fitz Roy. […]
After jolting our adventure back to life like a defibrillator to the chest, pulling us back from the brink, we are making the most of our only full day in this town. The journey north up the spine of the Andes will complete the long held desire to travel the length of this great range […]
The secret agent dash for cash draws to a mind numbingly slow close as the bus window television stuck on one channel takes its rightful place in a fading past. Loaded up with US dollars we are slowly re-birthed into this adventure on a breeze rising anticipation. We’re heading to a border crossing back into […]
The name’s Bond, James Bond. How quickly the coin flips, we were but moments ago quite enviable global travellers drinking up the worlds bounties and now at the hissing closure of the bus door we become black market racketeers, secret agent eat your heart out. A slight embellishment to the romantic designation of our task […]
Charlie and Steve's Excellent Adventure 