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Day 6 - Paradise Harbour Base Brown (2nd Continental Landing) Today was a busy day for us as we had been scheduled for three excursions. Viking was finally starting to understand "Casey Bootcamp". Our first…
We went down for our breakfast before zero dark thirty. Viking had chartered a couple of flights to fly the group from Buenos Aires to Ushuaia. Our bus left for the airport at 3:40am. We…
Time for our 4th country of our trip. We were headed to Torres del Paine National Park in Chile. We had been flirting with Chile most of our trip as it was always just the…
The following morning we were flying again. This time to El Calafate, further in Patagonia. It was very windy when we arrived, which is typical of the area. We really had some turbulence on this…
We flew on to Carlos de Bariloche. Our host met us at our little suite. This was to be our base for the next 4 nights. Driving into Bariloche We had originally planned on driving the…
The next morning, we got on the road and headed back to Salta. We were almost immediately stopped at one of the police checkpoints. Will passed the breathalyzer and we were on our way. These…
We had a 2 hour flight that morning headed to Salta. We picked up our rental car and drove a little over 3 hours further north to the small town of Purmamarca. They are famous…
The next morning we flew out to Puerto Iguazú. This town is on the border with Brazil and Paraguay and is also home to the Iguazú Falls. We arrived to a lot of humidity and…
In spite of the government shutdown, we made it out on our flight and landed in Buenos Aires early. We exchanged some money at the airport. Really the rate was decent and we figured we’d…
We left the smoke haze behind and entered the hottest place on Earth, Death Valley. In 1913 Death Valley reached 134° Fahrenheit at Furnace Creek. We were coming in from the north and didn’t realize…