Author Archives: Richard

Hello everybody. Happy Easter. Ever since leaving Argentina last week, I´ve been moving pretty slowly, spending a couple of days in the border town of Chile Chico, then taking a couple of days to come around the lake there and … Continue reading →

Hello again. I´m wending my way up north and stopped in Puerto Natales again to see Torres del Paine, one of Patagonia´s most beautiful parks. As I expected, it was too cold and windy to attempt a hike of several … Continue reading →

Sir Earnest Shackleton slept here. This house is in Punta Arenas. That name may mean nothing to you, but the story of his and his crew´s heroic failed effort to reach the South Pole in 1914 has enthralled millions over … Continue reading →

Greetings. Click on any picture you want to see bigger. We finally left Buenos Aires and headed first for the lake country, on the eastern side of the Andes Mountains southwest of Buenos Aires. The main city, Bariloche, is a … Continue reading →

Hi everyone. Well, that idea of bringing nail art to Argentina fell through. To make a long story short, Myung looked into it quite a lot. She asked around, got a lot of information, and decided it just wasn´t going … Continue reading →

Well, I wasn´t really expecting this, but here´s the scoop to his point. When I got here, almost the first thing Myung told me was that she liked Buenos Aires. There was more. She had an idea that maybe she … Continue reading →

Greetings from Buenos Aires. Things have been VERY slow around here during the New Year´s four day weekend. Almost everything closed on the afternoon of the 31st and just opened up today. Myung is off doing her own thing. That … Continue reading →

… I didn´t make it. I guess I looked at the wrong chapter in Lonely Planet. I didn´t think I needed a visa for Brazil, but I do. They wouldn´t let me on the plane for the Toronto-Sao Paolo leg … Continue reading →

I feel like I owe you all an apology. I haven’t posted an entry in months. True, there was no place we were in Africa, until the very end in South Africa, where I could upload pictures. However, I could … Continue reading →

Since I last wrote, we finally made it to Chobe National Park in Botswana. We first tried to get in from the south, but the main bridge was washed out and you should have seen the row of logs some … Continue reading →