It took a while to get to sleep last night. I'm obviously blaming the altitude because I blame it for fucking everything. I'm not out of breath tying my shoelaces because I'm too fat for my trousers. It's the altitude. Definitely spilt that beer all over myself because of the altitude. You can blame it [...]
It wasn't a terrifyingly early start this morning, we had to be at the tour office at 7.30am which isn't too hideous. I'd even stopped drooling. Unfortunately the first thing they did was tell us that one of the other two people on the tour couldn't make it as she was really ill and because [...]
We're in Bolivia! Woo! The border crossing was relatively straightforward albeit loooong. Two bastard hours we stood in a queue for as one single human being processed everyone crossing into Bolivia that day. Also we've no idea how long we're allowed to stay for as there's nothing on the stamp to tell us and we [...]
On account of the fact we didn't really know how we wanted to tackle Salta we'd only booked two nights in the flat so we were brutally forced to move to a hostel for another two nights when we decided to just stay in the city and pay people to take us places and show [...]
Us: Yeah we're not really big city kinda people, y'know?Also us: Omg we just LOVE Mendoza though! *heart eyes*Yeah so Mendoza has been fantastic. Of course we've been focused on the centre but it's got so many green spaces breaking up the busy city roads, and they're nice green spaces too with water features and [...]
It is 1500 kilometres, give or take, from Esquel to Mendoza so you can imagine that we had exactly zero desire to rush that. As much as I love driving, any more than six hours behind the wheel can bugger right off. We intended to stick to ruta nacional 40 the whole way back up [...]
As we drove into Bariloche the other day we saw paragliders swooping down from the hills and we thought, what a fucking incredible place to be really high up! Then we wondered if it was available commercially but we couldn't see any offers in town amongst the rafting and the Circuito Chico, so we did [...]
It feels like a bit of a waste leaving Copahue in the dark just because the whole area is so fucking beautiful. The extra cold morning air causes the steam from the thermal pools to billow high into the air. At one point it was so thick it was like driving through fog. As the [...]
We'd seriously considered not heading to Malargüe yesterday because we really liked Valle Grande but fuck me, I'm so glad we made that 200 kilometre dent in the journey. The mighty Ruta Nacional 40 is the stuff of legends. It's the kind of road people do just too say they've done it. Y'know, like Route [...]
One of our favourite things to do is bum around in a car with a tent, exploring places and pitching up in the evening at a campsite. I love bus travel too of course, it's also a great way of moving around, but the freedom of being able to cram all of your shit into [...]
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