Up 800 for 815 breakfast. I could choke down the fruit salad today which was just as well as I was on wash up and we were leaving at 900 and I forgot my packed lunch! I need it because we were driven into the Tierra del Fuego National Park to walk the coast path alongside the Beagle Canal (I thought it was channel as thatīs what it is but itīs c...

We left San Jose, Costa Rica en Route to Ushuaia on January 7th. We touched down in Buenos Aires at night, found ourselves a comfortable window sill to tuck into and slept until our morning flight left Buenos Aires for Ushuaia the next morning. Everything went really smoothly with the flights and we managed to find ourselves some good quality si...

Day 64, Wednesday - Our job today was to finalize shipping arrangements for the bikes and book ourselves a cruise to Antarctica. We had a verbal agreement with a shipping company out of Calgary before we left home. She said everything was good to go and to call in mid November for final instructions. Turns out, no seacan has been arranged or pap...

Well we finally made it to "the end of the world", or fin del mundo en Espaņol. The bus journeys were not toooo bad, but have the advantage of making us feel we have achieved something by arriving here. We stayed up to 3am in El Calafate to get the bus, and managed to sleep for most of the journey until our 7am arrival in Rio Gallegos. From ther...

Up early with luggage packed for colledtion at 0800. Terrible weather last night (worst for 7 years they told us later). Still intermittent heavy rain and strong winds this morning. Coach came for us at 0930 for an excursion into Tierra del Fuego National Park - very scenic when you can see through the steamed up windows of the coach. I think th...

Well, we have completed our quest south with our arrival in Ushuaia, Argentina, the southernmost city in the world. We were so far south that we were greeted with a snow storm upon arrival, even though it is the start of summer here. Ushuaia is a nice enough town, nessled on the Beagle Channel surrounded by the southern tip of the Andes. Overall...

2/1 Ushuaia, Argentina Miles travelled: 44680 It's the end of the world! We've arrived in Ushuaia, Argentina, the southernmost city in the world, on the island of Tierra del Fuego. Charles Darwin called Tierra del Fuego the "uttermost part of the earth", so if you pair it with Timbuktu, we've really gone to some places off the beaten track! Ushu...