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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 »

Kharakhorim was once the center of the world’s largest empire and the greatest crossroad of Asia in about 1300 when Chinggis Khan (incorrectly romanized in our history books as Genghis… Read more »

We are on the main road traveling West from Ulaanbaatar. It is a paved, very rough, two lane highway.  Pat and I are sitting in the back seat to avoid… Read more »

I wake up in the middle of the night to a howling wind and then waves of much needed rain in the Gobi Desert.   I am in the most… Read more »

The main historical sites are few in a city which was governed under Soviet rule for 70 years — all bourgeois cultural and religious landmarks were purposefully demolished or allowed… Read more »