SAND SKIING IN PERU
14- 27 May 2026. Descending out of the mountains we dropped nearly 4,500 metres, below the clouds and down to the Pacific Ocean. We’d spent less than 48 hours in Chile before heading to the border with Peru. A trip to the supermarket to fill the pantry, as we knew supermarkets along the coast of […]
UYUNI, BOLIVIA – THE WORLDS LARGEST SALT PAN
OUT OF ARGENTINA – INTO BOLIVIA 4-9 May 2026. The plan had been simple enough: drive to Uyuni then on to La Paz where we would leave the camper at a campground outside the city, and spend a couple of nights in a hotel exploring the chaos and energy of the capital. But Bolivia had […]
NORTH FROM BARILOCHE, ARGENTINA
BACK INTO ARGENTINA 28 March. An early start meant driving straight into the rising sun—blinding at times—and a near miss with a couple of sheep casually wandering down the middle of the road. The border crossing itself was straightforward. Exit Chile, enter Argentina. First to Migration, then to Aduana, once more back into Argentina. Only […]
PUERTO NATALES TO PORTO MONTT, CHILE
SOMETHING IS BROKEN 12 – 20 March 2026. Leaving the park, we made our way back to Puerto Natales. The original plan had been to drive north via Argentina’s Ruta Nacional 40—long, remote, and legendary. But somewhere between the wind, the roads, and the growing sense that something wasn’t right, we knew we didn’t want to risk […]
O TREK: DAY 6 – 8, CHILE
DAY 6: CAMP GREY TO PAINE GRANDE ASCENT: 398m DESCENT: 275m DISTANCE: 11.5 km TIME: 3h 10 March. After yesterday’s effort, we gave ourselves permission to sleep in—finally crawling out of the tent around 8am. Even that felt optimistic. Feet, calves, quads… everything complained. My feet especially, at least for the first five minutes, until […]
O TREK – DAY 4 and 5
DICKSON TO LOS PERROS — Into the Forest ASCENT: 534m DESCENT: 115m DISTANCE: 15km. HOURS: 3:50 It’s always a good feeling waking up to dry weather when you’re living out of a tent. I didn’t want to say it out loud — no need to tempt fate — but here we were on day four… […]
THE O-TREK, DAY 1 and 2
WHAT IS THE O-TREK? The O Trek in Torres del Paine National Park is Patagonia’s full circuit—an 8-day loop that wraps completely around the Paine Massif, going far beyond the more popular W Trek. It takes you into the quieter, wilder side of the park, where the crowds thin, the wind picks up, and the landscape feels bigger, […]
TORRES DEL PAINE NATIONAL PARK, CHILE
I felt it immediately coming over the rise above the Río Serrano Entrance. This was different. More beautiful than expected—dramatically so. After six months in the Andes, living among mountains, we’re not easily surprised by big landscapes anymore. But this… this landed somewhere deeper. I feel it in my chest, it actually took my breath away. […]
PUNTA ARENAS TO PUERTO NATALES – CHILE
February 21 – 1 March. The two-hour crossing into Punta Arenas passed quickly. We arrived with a simple plan: get what we needed and move on. Just a few items to prepare for the O. Two nights, a bit of shopping, then on to Puerto Natales. The duty-free zone in Punta Arenas is a strange and wonderful contradiction—vast, […]
TIERRA DEL FUEGO – CHILE
A REMOTE BORDER CROSSING After saying goodbye to Manuel who had 10 days to ride to Buenos Aires for his flight home to Switzerland, we crossed back into Chile. Rio Bella Vista is a tiny, relaxed border post miles from anywhere. Marked by these neat rusted steel markers I struggled to get a good photo […]
TIERRA DEL FUEGO – ARGENTINA
At the very edge of the continent, where land fractures into wind, water, and sky, lies Tierra del Fuego—the Land of Fire. When the ships of early explorers, including Ferdinand Magellan, passed through these cold, seemingly inhospitable southern channels in the 1500s, they saw something unexpected. Fires flickered along the dark shoreline—hundreds of them. They belonged to the […]
PERITO MORENO NATIONAL PARK, ARGENTINA
1-7 February 2026 We left Gobernador Gregores, a small, windswept Patagonian town that serves as a key resupply stop in an otherwise remote region. With a few supermarkets, fuel stations, and basic services, it’s one of the last practical places to stock up before heading back out into the wilderness. Taking advantage once more, we […]