The following journal is from January of 2008. 1/15 In Transit We started our day a 5:30 a.m. when the alarm sounded in our Ivins, Utah bedroom. After spending much of the day in the air, including an 11 1/2 hour flight from Chicago to Buenos Aires, we landed in El Calafate the next night at 8:00 p.m. 1/16 El Calafate It’s hard to imagine that we’d be happy after a day and a half in an airplane, but Kim and I ended the night almost giddy to be back on the road, back in South America. Landing in El Calafate was like going back to St. Marys, Alaska: a tundra like look of sparse vegetation, rugged mountains in the distance and an absolute void of human influence anywhere, except for a fence running along the
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