April 16th, 2019 Brendan had school work to catch up and he stayed at the hostel to be on the computer today. Taylor and I went out to go to the Palermo neighborhood where we heard there were cute boutique shops. We took the subway to get there and walked around for a while. Taylor…
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Day 71 – Buenos Aires, Argentina
April 15th, 2019 Today we got up and the three of us did a 10:30am walking tour. The tour took us through the nice aristocratic neighborhoods of BA and included a visit to Recoleta Cemetery. After our tour we went back and changed hostels. We rested for a bit in our new hostel and then…
Day 68 – 70 – El Calafate to Buenos Aires, Argentina
April 12-14, 2019 Happy Birthday to Nanny! Today we got up early to drive back to El Calfate, return the rental car and make it to the bus station for a 10:30am bus. We stopped at the store and picked up some food and snacks for our very long bus ride to Buenos Aires (it…
Day 67- El Chalten, Patagonia (Argentina)
April 11th, 2019 Today our plan was to rent a car and start making our way north to Buenos Aires. We were going to take a few days for a road trip to do this and stop in El Chalten to see the famous Fitz Roy. However, our plans went awry when there were no…
Day 66 – El Calafate, Patagonia (Argentina)
April 10th, 2019 Happy Birthday to Mom! We celebrated it real big for you by doing a glacier ice adventure. Taylor left early for her kayaking tour and Brendan and I left a little later on a bus that took us into the National Park. Once we got there we were able to explore for…
Day 65 – El Calafate, Patagonia (Argentina)
April 9th, 2019 Today we had to get up extremely early. We had arranged to take a 7am bus to El Calafate which is in the Argentinian side of Patagonia. We crossed the Chilean border and went to Argentina on the six-hour long bus ride from Puerto Natales. We were really excited because Taylor found…
Day 64 – Torres del Paine, Patagonia (Chile)
April 8th, 2019 We woke up at 2:30 am for our last hike up to the base of the towers for sunrise. We would go there and back and then take a bus out of the park to go back to Puerto Natales tonight. The hike was estimated at 4 hours there, and 4 hours…
Day 63 – Torres del Paine, Patagonia (Chile)
April 7th, 2019 Today was the day we had to hike the furthest with our bags. Fortunately, they were a little lighter than when we started since we had been eating the food along the way, and they still felt heavy. We woke up to another fantastic day of sun and NO wind. This was…
Day 62 – Torres del Paine, Patagonia (Chile)
April 6th, 2019 After the roughest night we ever experienced, we got up and made the journey to the bathroom where we could use our cook stove to make breakfast. We had another grilled cheese and were beyond happy to see that the rain had finally stopped. Taylor’s morning started out bad as she slipped…
Day 61 – Torres del Paine, Patagonia (Chile)
April 5, 2019 After an exhausting first day of our trek and not sleeping that great in the tent this morning when the sun came up, I decided to keep resting. I didn’t think we needed to get up extremely early or anything. No one else was getting up, I kept resting and felt it…