Northwest Point

... American trip. I am starting out in Caracas, Venezuela and ending up in Buenos Aires, Argentina three months later. How I get from point A to point B is yet to be determined. As some of you may know, I tend not to make, let alone follow, itineraries, ...

... the border with the Northwest Territories, were there is a rather small and unimpressive sign marking the border crossing. Once in the Northwest Territories the road becomes Highway 7 (The Laird Trail). The scenery on this road is more of the same, but ...

West Point Island (1255 Hectares) is off the northwest  West Falkland Separated by a narrow and strongly tidal sea passage known as the 'Woolly Gut'. The island was known as Albatross Island amongst the itinerant sealing community who frequented ...

Swimming Point is a permanent well insulated camp just along the hiway on the way to Tuktoyuktuk.  We had some interesting moments on the way to the camp, they were setting off explosive charges in a gravel pit not far off the hiway!  We didn't ...

... 's all the wildlife? We were hoping to get to Neah Bay before their heritage center / museum closed, but when we reached Shipwreck Point with only 15 minutes to spare to the probable closing time, I decided to stop on one of the beach pull outs ...

Today was a day for a lovely Sunday drive and some sightseeing for us.  We got up at a reasonable hour and after we were all fed and dressed we headed off for a countryside jaunt.  Well, you wouldn’t believe the scenery.  Absolutely ...

... it that 35km the crack had crept a few inches across the windshield. Still it was only another 60km to the border of the Northwest Territories. I thought I could make it. Slow and steady wins the race. I kept it at 60kph or lower. Although the rain ...

... as a beautiful summer day, and today we journeyed into the Arctic. From Dawson we flew up the Dempster Highway to Inuvik, Northwest Territories, down the MacKenzie River to the Arctic Ocean and Tuktoyaktuk, and back to Inuvik. After a circle over Dawson, ...

... my disappointment.   I still have three more hours of driving on the Liard Highway till I get to Checkpoint Junction. At this point it meets the MacKenzie Highway and from there it is another hour to Fort Simpson.   I am now enjoying every ...

... at the exclusion of trees and vegetation, I found myself truly enraptured at the unusual beauty around me.   At this point paved walkways and other walkers were a distant memory as I ventured forth alone over the rocky landscape only guided by ...

... , you only need look to left for far reaching sights. I dress for the coast and Bonnie is pointed west by northwest.  Navi is directing us to Point Arena, California.  The Wharf Master's Inn.  The wind Titan has been calmed by my new ride ...

... measures have worked!), it was finally morning and time for our tour on Venezuela´s Peninsula de Paraguana, the continents most northern point. Our first stop was Parque Nacional Medanos de Coro just a 10 minute drive from the Hostel. The parque is ...

... we had gone outside normal protocol and didn't let the airline dispatch know that we had changed destinations in a timely fashion. At this point we all realize that their jobs are on the line. We each took 2 hour watch shifts through the night, as ...

... being pushed outward on each "lane" and accumulating in the middle.  As the winter progressed the hump got higher.  At one point I was afraid I was going to slide down the other side.  Just when I was considering who to ask to make a ...

... get home.  Miss Camilla, you had better keep your promise!! Later, a group of us ended up at the Trapper.  At one point I turned to Tom and stuck my bum in his direction, looked over my shoulder, and asked, "Does this bar make my ass look ...

... if he could get some to try.  We watched pool, talked to Mike when he wasn't busy, and had a good time.  At one point I asked Mike what drink he was making and was told that I had interrupted so the guy he was making them for said that ...

... . During the colonial epoch, Mompox was arguably the third most important Colombian city after Bogotá and Cartagena. It was a resting point between the two along the Magdalena River and its location kept it safer from attacks from the coast and from ...

... life. Ever. The room was spinning. Seriously, I've lived a sheltered, responsible life and have never reached that point before. There is something to be said for getting completly trashed. I have little idea what happened, actually everything ...

... but can see they are a different shape to normal dolphins. Naturally on the way our boat conks out a few times and at one point we nearly capsize as a rope gets twisted in the motor. Fortunately we dont all end up in the lake which I am paranoid ...

... morachos always interfered, he said. David got up to dance with Luisa, who I´d mysteriously never seen dance up to this point. Normally, you see a Venezuelan girl dancing within the first few days upon meeting her, if not the first. And, she danced ...