My long flight from Auckland to Santiago was uninteresting apart from one thing. It took off on March 27th at 5:25pm and landed on March 27th at 12:40pm. I took a taxi from the airport to the youth hostel and tried to figure out what time it felt like. I was sharing the taxi with Rose and Amber, two Kiwi architects, and I decided to go to the sa...

After travelling through Chile for over a month, staying in some of the ropiest backpackers accomodation I have ever experienced, it is a welcome break returning to Santiago. Andrew and Pauli´s flat now seems to be extremely large, clean, modern and spacious and even the healthy household plants look exotic and foreign to me. We relax for a few ...

Well I was supposed to fly to Buenos Aires but I really wanted to go to Mendoza and take the road through the Andes so I ditched the flight. For eleven pounds I took the bus with comfortable seats, a very smelly toilet and screaming child, and after seven hours of impressive scenery I got to Mendoza. I´m going to miss Chile, and a special thanks...

The tiny screen in front of me was my lifeline. Set on GPS, it showed my location as if I were looking from the cockpit, with the jagged peaks of the Andes on my left. Other screens were map-like, with city-dots identifying the political name for what was there, our tiny-toy plane an imaginary figure above the world, creeping south. Occasionally...

Time to cross the international dateline. Goodbye New Zealand Hello Chile Goodbye 23rd of November Hello, errr, 23rd of November Goodbye early nights Hello jet lag Goodbye English Hola Espaņol Goodbye Queen Lizzy Hello General Pinochet Goodbye five dollar beer Hello Pisco Sour Goodbye shared hostel rooms Hello shared hostel rooms, damn Goodbye p...

just a few more pics of the of us up in the mountains taking a swim in the lake.

Heading south to catch the end of summer in the south we flew from Costa Rica to Santigao where we spent theday in the airport before flying down to Punta Arenas in the far south.