by PeterMurtagh-user | Dec 19, 2022 | Blog
November 28th 2022, Bahia Murta. The prospect of 200 or so kms to Coihaique didn’t faze me a jot. And it was almost all going to be on an unpaved part of the Carretera Austral, Chile’s southern-most highway before the South Patagonia Ice Field severs the...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Dec 17, 2022 | Blog
November 26 2022 El Calafate, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. I got back to Punta Arenas from Puerto Williams at around midnight and, unlike at Puerto Williams, the ferry crew would not allow passengers without accommodation in the town sleep the night on the boat. I...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Dec 13, 2022 | Blog
Filed from Puerto GuadalA day that began with such little promise ended in triumph. The road that was worried over, was in the event traveled and traveled well, thanks to the urging of an Australian geologist. The reward was great.I spend the night in a truck stop...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Dec 11, 2022 | Blog
Filed from Curicó, December 11thI had my first Tip2Top cop encounter yesterday — two of them in fact in quick succession.I was heading north along Ruta 5, the main transport spine that runs north/south the length of the country, ending in the north only when it...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Dec 8, 2022 | Blog, Uncategorized
Osorno, December 8thWhat must surely be the world’s ugliest church, Parroquia San Francisco, looks out over Plazuela Yungay in the center of Osorno. I came across it last evening on my wander, having settled into my latest hostel, the Hostel del Chaman, a really...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Dec 6, 2022 | Blog
December 5th 2022Puerto Octay, near OsornoI am sitting on a bench in a campsite in Puerto Octay. It’s early morning, the sun is fighting to break through some dull, misty cloud and I’m feeling rather pleased with life.This is a lovely little place.I got...
