Travel Journal
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Park Ridge, IL to Skaneateles, NY
On our family-visiting extravaganza a year ago, we arrived to Chicago on Amtrak, and then rode the rails to Rett’s Dad’s in New York before returning to Chicago to fly to South America. We rode ourselves to the train on every one of those legs. So it felt strange this time that we didn’t do… Read more…
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Buenos Aires, AR to Park Ridge, IL, USA
Part of the value of our first-floor AirBNB was the ease at which we would be able to take our bikes out to range across the large-but-bikeable city. For the first week the bikes remained packed, and while I could imagine times when they would be useful or more-efficient, I also knew it would be… Read more…
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Buenos Aires, AR
Month 2 The last time we had lived in a place for more than a month was early 2023 in Seattle. So going into a secondary stationary month in Buenos Aires was definitely giving the feeling of relaxation and restoration that I had hoped for. We continued our rhythm of going out to explore a… Read more…
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El Calafate, AR to Buenos Aires, AR
For weeks, when people asked how far south we were going, we would say “probably Puerto Natales, where then we’ll catch the (expensive!) ferry back north to Puerto Montt”. Even before we arrived in South America, we were pretty sure we were not going to ride all the way to “the end” at Ushuaia. Partly… Read more…
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El Chaltén, AR to El Calafate, AR
It’s a 4-day ride (for us) from El Chaltén to El Calafate. The road initially heads east, nearly reaching the center of the continent (it’s only 350 miles wide at this point), before returning to a generally-southward route. That means it leaves behind the sheltering mountains of the Carretera Austral, and heads into the desolate Read more…
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El Chaltén, AR
The midday clearing on our ride into El Chaltén was the opening of a perfect 2.5-day weather window. And while cycling provides a near-unbeatable way to view the staggering mountain landscapes here, hiking is one mode that beats even cycling (as we would see later, paragliding would be another!) Unfortunately there was no way were Read more…
