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July 18th 2012

Published: August 21st 2012

Snow Journey--Aconcagua Don't know when I'll make it to Everest, but here I am at the highest mountain outside the Himalayas! Mighty Aconcagua, at 6962 meters/22,841 feet, and her sister mountains and volcanoes soar at the apex of the 7000 kilometers of the Andes Cordillera. From the trail, they seem so accessible, yet they've filled the Climbers' Cemetery below with an internatio... Read Full Entry

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Tara Cloud

taracloud

I´m a one-way ticket, slow traveler, relishing the freedom of the open road and trusting serendipity to guide my journey. When I was younger, I used to travel for a year at a time. Then a few years ago, I roamed Europe and North Africa for three and a half years and liked that even better. On August 1st, 2010, I left my peaceful Mission Canyon paradise in Santa Barbara's mellow summer and emerged from a couple of planes a day and a world later in the teeming, sub-zero streets of Buenos Aires´winter. Now, with the Andes, Amazon and Galapagos between here and home, will three years be enou... full info

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22nd August 2012

Aconcagua--highest mountain in the Americas

Arif
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great to see the highest mountain of America...

27th August 2012

taracloud
Tara Cloud

high mountains
Thanks, Arif, I'd love to see all the high mountains in the world, but we'll see....

22nd August 2012

D MJ Binkley
Dave and Merry Jo Binkley

We are sitting in a pub in the Faroe Islands
We are sipping a beer and waiting for our ferry in two hours to the island of Nolsoy. I have enjoyed reading your blog. Your mountain looks fantastic and we hope to add it to our must do list. ...doubt that will be soon. Love your slow approach. Keep those blogs coming.

27th August 2012

taracloud
Tara Cloud

Lucky us!
Sipping a beer and waiting for a ferry--how perfect! Travelblog is so great--I get to join you on your misty islands, and you get to hike on the snowy mountains. Even though you're in the north and I'm in the south, I have the feeling we'll meet up someday and sip a beer as we wait for our ferry...

23rd August 2012

Puente del Inca--natural stone bridge and a former spa

bvchef
Brendan Vermillion

What an amazing shot. I have an affinity for abandoned buildings, so this photo really speaks to me. They are all very good, especially the colors of the rocks; however, this one makes me want to poke my head through the windows and imagine what it was like. Great shot, great blog.

23rd August 2012

taracloud
Tara Cloud

Tempting Ruins
Thanks, Brendon. I totally agree with you about abandoned buildings and ruins (Pompeii was incredible!). It was so tempting to try to make it across the river and into the spa, but the ice was so slick that it kept me an honest woman.

23rd August 2012

Dancing Dave
David Hooper

BEAUTIFUL
Your blogs convey such a carefree wander through Patagonia that I think of you like a feather floating in gentle breeze...but having experienced the winds in Patagonia...I'm still pondering an appropriate analogy...maybe your name says it best...so it is simply..."being Tara Cloud".

23rd August 2012

taracloud
Tara Cloud

Clouds
Thanks, Dave, you are such a poet! And yes, I've always felt like a cloud--most of the time floating gently but occasionally blowing wild like the Patagonian gales.

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