Musings on Travel and Life
All the posts about my run from South to North.
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 …
Consciousness seeps in. It’s nice to laze, long minutes while sleep oozes from my limbs. And then I cross a motivation threshold, and I’d rather move. Leave tent, eat cous cous, pack up. It’s partly sunny and calm, some of the nicest weather of the trip. I move through the woods, swift and quiet. Past …
I’ve packed my camp. I want to make time today, and I should head out. But I want another trip up the mountain. I hiked to the cross yesterday, after wading to the end of the continent. It was cloudy, and the view was blocked. Now it’s nice, and I want to see what I’ve …