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May 17th 2004
Well after getting back from waving Silvia and Dany off at the airport on thursday afternoon, Romy the girl with the van, was ready to leave right away so me and Mike quickly packed up all our stuff, said our goodbyes to everyone at the hostel and got on the road. It was sad to drive away from Ushuaia, I'd had such a great time there with all those great people, but I couldn't really pass up an opportunity like this. Romy turned out to be real cool too, and she didn't speak english either so it was fun practicing my feeble spanish with her. We drove pretty much non-stop for 30hrs and had no trouble apart from the having to stop for a couple of hours in a pokey little town to get the air-conditioning ... read more
May 13th 2004
I've jst had a fabulous week down in Ushuaia. Had the best crew staying at the hostel I was at and we had an absolute blast every day. Mostly we just ate great food, there were a couple of girls there from Barcelona, Dany and Silvia who were amazing cooks staying with us, so every night they cooked us up some amazing dish that we'd never heard of before, then we'd stay up to all hours drinking red wine, dancing salsa and trying to teach me spanish, it was awesome. The other two main guys from our group were Micheal and Shawn from America, top blokes, and both of them pretty much spoke fluent spanish so with all they're powers combined I learn't a lot of new stuff. I'm getting there slowly but I definately need ... read more
May 7th 2004
Well for the last few days I've been up in a little town called El Chalten with a German guy and a couple of Australian girls I met while back in the Torres Del Paine National park over in Chile. They were so cool, we camped for two night and hiked about 4 or 5 hours for the three days we were there. Me and Mike were in charge of putting up the tents and fighting of the mice, while the girls cooked us up mean feeds and pointed at mice for us to throw stuff at. It worked well. The trip up there from El Calafaté was a drag, 5hrs on a less then adequate bus on dodgey gravel roads. Most of the buses here are pretty worn out and your lucky if it doesn't ... read more
May 3rd 2004
I'm staying in El Calafate at the moment, just lazing about and enjoying the nice weather. I'm staying in the best hostel I've stayed at so far. It's called America Del Sur, and it's run by a bunch of mid-20Yr old ex-pat Buenos Aires people who are so crazy and fun. And they're always chillin in the lounge with all the travellers with some sort of reggae music playing, and they've got under floor heating everywhere you go so the whole place has got just the best atmosphere. Today I went to the Perito Moreno Glacier which was absolutely amazing! it's massive! It's about 5km's wide, and all up about as big as the Buenos Aires city. It's creaking and groaning all the time cos it moves forward at about two meters a day, and at one ... read more
May 2nd 2004
I just got back from a four day trek in the Torres del Paine national park which is on the Chilean side of Patagonia and man am I wasted! The weather wasn´t the best but the park was amazing. It´s just coming out of autumn and into winter at the moment so the leaves on all the trees are golds and oranges and yellows which looks awesome, especially with a bit of snow dotted around the place aswell. One morning me and an Israeli guy got up at like 6 in the morning to go and watch the sun rise over the Torres, but over night it had started snowing heaps and by the time we were about half way to the viewing place, we were walking in knee-deep snow and we couldn´t see the track anymore so ... read more
April 24th 2004
Well I´m here and safe and lost and loving it! I´ve been in Buenos Aires for nearly a week now and so far everything has been awesome! thanks heaps to everyone that came out to the airport the other day, it was a great send off and kept a smile on my face all the way to Argentina. And Mark you´ll be pleased to know that the lonely planet guide you gave me was the first thing I turned to when I got there, I opened it up and pointed at a juicey looking hostel to the weird taxi driver and he delivered me in one piece so cheers. So far I´ve been just bumming around in the city doing heaps of cool stuff and meeting a lot of rad people. I went to a Boca ... read more
I'm russ, I'm from New Zealand and have developed a love for travelling over the last couple of years. It was the best descision of my life for sure, breaking the routine and heading off to explore the globe, and I would highly recommend getting out there and having a close up look and anything that you've read about or heard about that intrests you, because if it looks cool on TV, I can garuntee you that it'll be even cooler when you are there amoungst it. And if you're stuggling for ideas about where to start, I'd highly recommend buying a oneway ticket to South America and the rest will ta... full info
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