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Very quick update from Santiago, the capital of Chile.  I picked Hawk up at the airport yesterday and we’ve been running around doing errands and doing just a little planning.  We decided that instead of trying to line up a bunch of small field trips in the area around this smoggy megalopolopolis, which seems like [...]

Woo Hoo!  ”Only” 5121km (3182 miles) to go!  I think this number seems a little high, but at any rate, it all depends on the route I take.  But it was fun to see a sign for my end point! About 12 hours in Argentina and I can tell you things are rather different than [...]

Yesterday I arrived in Tupiza, which is only 60 paved miles ride away from the Argentina border and at about “only” 2,950m (~9,700 feet). For about the past 4 weeks I’ve been above 3,000m, and for the past 3 weeks and 800 miles, never below 3,650m  (~12,000 feet), along the rather flat altiplano of Peru and Bolivia. Perhaps not a [...]

A quick note before I leave Oruro, I’m on my way to the Uyuni salt flat.  I’ll most likely be without internet for the next week, on a particularly rugged part of Bolivia.  The salt flat has been on the top of my list ever since I set off on this journey.  It is several [...]

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This will be a rather self serving post! Having my friend Hawk come visit me soon will be a good chance to have some stuff brought down. As much as I’d like it, it will be impossible for him to bring things like a Golden Crust pizza or some orange chicken from Panda Express. I’ve [...]