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Ushuaia – first impressions

December 14, 2023

Ushuaia turned out to be much bigger and more “industrialized” (more cars and people) than we had imagined. Both of us had imagined a calm port-city with a faraway atmosphere. In contrast to our expectations, we instead found a touristic city with visitors from all around the world. And with several cruise ships moored in […]

Towards the end of a continent

December 13, 2023

Now, close to Ushuaia, we again deviated from Route 3 and followed Route J to visit the “Estancia Harberton” located at the strait of Beagle. Here we learned the story of how an English Anglican missionary in the 1880s ended up settling (and with his family – now in fifth generation – adapting to and […]

The end of the world route (La Ruta del fin del mundo)

December 12, 2023

The 12 of December we left Rio Gallegos following Route 3 and arrived at the border crossing Paso Integracion Austral which connects Argentina and Chile. From there we followed Route 255 and crossed the Magellan Strait. On the same route, we crossed back into Argentina at the San Sebastian border station following the by now […]

Changing times in Argentina (?)

December 10, 2023

Today is the inauguration of president elect Millei and we are having breakfast in a hotel in Rio Gallegos. We are also resting a little and importantly securing getting more camping gas (the morning is simply not the same without a cup of hot coffee) before entering Tierra de Fuego tomorrow. During our time in […]

Time moves more slowly

December 7, 2023

When traveling, we often feel that time moves slower than usual. Time is not only a social construct often dominating urban life and work, but it is also a dimension which seems to stay with us as a form of mental reference which it is difficult to break free from. How often during the day […]

Rural Argentina

December 3, 2023

We have since partly followed Route 3 (a main route) and Route 1 (a more narrow and mostly unpaved road). Particularly the latter offers beautiful rides along the coastline with view to many beaches mainly on dirt roads. For instance, the drive between the beach town of el Condor (south-east of Viedma) and Las Grutas […]

Exit Buenos Aires

December 1, 2023

Back on-line and better able to navigate, we headed south and out of Buenos Aires. We soon realized how big Buenos Aires is and were surprised by a really heavy thunderstorm which really didn’t make things better. But after a while we reached more rural areas. And following Google Maps indications (for the record we […]

Saying goodbye to Atlántida and Montevideo

November 30, 2023

We left Atlántida 30.11 early in the morning and after a nice drive arrived at the BuqueBus ferry-terminal in the port of Montevideo about 1,5 our later. After doing the required paperwork in both ends (leaving Montevideo, Uruguay and entering Buenos Aires, Argentina), we arrived at the port of Buenos Aires at about 16:00 hours. […]

Uruguayan sightseeing

November 29, 2023

However, while our vehicle has been prepared, we have been enjoying a great excursion to the north coast of Uruguay, transported and guided by our adopted local family, the veteran Patagonia explorers Florencia and Ricardo. Thanks to Florencia, the links below really tell the story, activities and experiences much better than I am able to […]

2nd round of preps

November 29, 2023

We have now returned to Montevideo to continue our Patagonia expedition. Video-clip 1: https://youtu.be/chhKnQdQia8 The Toyota Landcruiser has been in the repair shop for almost a week, and we are little by little realizing the consequences of travelling with an older vehicle. We already knew that we had to repair the front-axle (which was clearly […]