Musings on Travel and Life
I’m staggering into the wind. It’s wrestling me back from the summit like an animal defending its territory, pushing and feinting and easing and pouncing back stronger. The ground is a barren field of rock, with nowhere to hide from the air forcing the faintest gaps in my clothes. The harshest blasts make my eyes …
This is the next post in a long trip in South America. For the previous post, click here. For the first post in the series, click here. I’ve rested in Puerto Natales for a week, reading and writing and chilling in a hostel. Now I’m recovered enough to hike again. But I’m not going back …
This post is part of a series about a long trip in South America. For the first post in the series, click here. In the morning I walk into Villa Tehuelches. I stop at the last grocery store for 140 kilometers. Well, sort of a grocery store. It’s mostly gas-station food. I scan the shelves, …
This is the next entry in a series about my trip in Chile. For the first entry in the series, click here. Otherwise, read on: I’m 25 kilometers into the day, and more tired than I should be. There’s a futility in waking up by the side of the road in a Gortex coffin, in …
It’s 2:00pm, much later than I’d wanted to start. But I’m not waiting another day. I made myself a deadline, that I’d set up the blog and apply for summer jobs before I left Punta Arenas. I’m useless with technology, so it took four days building a basic website. And applying for jobs on an …