If hitchhiking has taught me anything it’s that one of the best ways to get to know a place is to openly ask locals for help. You end up with so many touching stories and peeks into local culture that you otherwise would have to work a lot harder to find. People of all possible […]
Is This Real Life? Patagonia’s Most Incredible Hanging Glacier
Queulat isn’t home to Patagonia’s most famous glacier, it does not command the visitor numbers that many of its more Southern counterparts do (thank God), and it’s not the biggest nor the bluest – not by a long shot. None of that matters, though, because it looks like this: I’m still not over it. I […]
Hitchhiking Adventures in the Back of a 10-Wheeler Truck
Never in my life did I think I’d be riding in the back of a roadworks truck down a bumpy road in Chile passing around a bottle of wine with perfect strangers. This was my third ride while I hitchhiked down the Carretera Austral in Chilean Patagonia so if you haven’t read the first post […]
Thumbs Up! The Start of the Patagonia Hitchhiking Adventure
For most visitors to Patagonia, the itinerary might include Bariloche in Argentina, where I started out, and a long and boring bus ride down Ruta 40 to southern Patagonia, bypassing most of the Chilean side. That bus ride takes about 25 hours and routes through rural Pampa lands with views of short yellow shrubs and cattle. The […]
The Worst Thing About Getting Robbed
In order for this to make sense, we have to rewind to a hostel in Kunming, China, circa February 2014. I left my bag with everything valuable in it on a seat across from Rene, a guy I’d known for a day or two, while I went to get some tea. I came back and […]