Author Archives: Varya

We are in Chile.  The crossing from Argentina was classic:  the Chilean border officer’s computer broke down so we stood outside in cold weather for well over an hour together… Read more »

Tourists flock to the burgeoning city of El Calafate mainly in order to visit the Pepito Moreno Glacier, a massive glacier which, when I was here in 2014, was the… Read more »

We are heading now to El Chalten, from the dry grassy plains beloved by the guanacos to the high mountains of the Andes whose glaciers bring water to the dry… Read more »

A cerulean blue ocean is outside my window in this exceptional location in Patagonia.  Bahia Bustamante is a small collection of buildings developed by an immigrant who started a seaweed… Read more »

Buenos Aires, the port city of the Saint providing good winds, is a bright urban center, buzzing with commercial enterprise, very European in look and feel.  I arrive at our… Read more »

Leaving the small island world of Easter Island, we re-enter the large urban environment of Santiago, where a large percentage of the Chilean population now resides.   It is a… Read more »

I wake up to a rooster’s loud crow on this remote island, 2200 miles have from its nearest neighbor of Chile.  There are more wild chickens and horses here than… Read more »

I am just beginning a one month journey to some fabulous places in Southern Chile and Argentina and wanted to introduce you all to my 12 co-travelers, who will be… Read more »