Watery Labyrinth Depending on your timing, a journey on the Navimag Ferry can be a romantic ride through the breathtaking fiords in Chilean Patagonia, or it can be a wild, roller coaster of storms with furniture flying across the room and passengers green at the gills. I was (un)lucky enough to have the latter, but then again, challenging experiences can bond friends forever and make a great story. A stretch of several hundred kilometers of Chilean Aisen is fractured into a labyrinth of fiords, channels, islands and dead-ends, and crossed by no roads. Thus, to go north, I needed to either fly or take a ferry. When I flew to Buenos Aires in 2010, I decided to return to California only by bus, boat and train for a greater adventure and to make the smallest carbon
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