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Heading along Ruta 7 – The Carretera Austral

10/08/2014 by Footsteps of a Tree

A cow tried to charge us. A herd damn well stopped us. Over mini golden gate bridges we passed. As the baker river roared fast. At times there was rainforest. Sometimes English type spring. It could take a lifetime for civilisation to a appear. But that wasn’t a bad thing. A road ‘surface’ no better than cobbles packed together. We slipped off once, Who was driving? I can’t remember. Distance and time seem to be swallowed by the 7. There […]

Categories: Chile, FOOTSTEPS, PHOTOGRAPHY, WHERE'S ELVIS? • Tags: Campervan, Carretera Austral, Chile, Patagonia, Photography, Ruta 7, South America, Travel, Wicked Van

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We could really use somebody here…

07/08/2014 by Footsteps of a Tree

Road Music – Disc#7 Only By the Night by Kings of Leon As clouds immersed Cypress wooded hillsides and misty rain turned heavy we legged it back up the sidewalks of Caleta Tortel to the car parking housing Elvis, our camper van, and decided to scarper. Turned out not to be the best decision ever but there was some good music on the way! With the Carretera Austral no more than a 1.5 lane wide mud and gravel road between […]

Categories: Chile, FOOTSTEPS, PHOTOGRAPHY, ROAD MUSIC, WHERE'S ELVIS? • Tags: Campervan, Career Break, Chile, Kings of Leon, Patagonia, Photography, Road Music, Ruta 7, Spotify, Travel

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Saving Elvis – ditches, flat batteries & doctors

04/08/2014 by Footsteps of a Tree

The second hero of our travels is actually group of individuals rather than an a single person. It’s the people who helped Save Elvis, our camper van, and indeed us – when we needed it most. It can feel pretty isolated at times when you travelling overland in countries where you don’t have a proper grasp of the language and it goes wrong in someway. There were times when we needed someone to turn to and almost in their entirely […]

Categories: Argentina, Chile, FOOTSTEPS, HEROES, Uncategorized • Tags: Accident, Argentina, Campervan, Chile, Flat Battery, Heroes, Patagonia, Travelling, Wicked Van

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Up the Hollywood hill like Rocky

27/07/2014 by Footsteps of a Tree

For a little place, donning my Nikes and running around the Patagonian town of Cochrane was a surprising adventure. We’d been travelling hard in the camper van for over a week and I’d not been able to do much training, so I took the time in Cochrane to put in a few miles. It’s a town that’s growing but as I ran out of our campsite, down the amusingly named ‘Doctor Steffens’ to the main square you would never know […]

Categories: Chile, FOOTSTEPS, RUNNERS DIARY • Tags: Chile, Cochrane, Jogging, Keeping Fit Whilst Travelling, Latin America, Nike, Patagonia, Road Running, Travel

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Ever stay in a place you didn’t expect to?

15/06/2014 by Footsteps of a Tree

Sometimes you end up staying in a place much longer than you expect. The guide books can overlook gems, dismiss them into insignificance for not being quite as polished as “the next must see”. Mistake. On our travels we’ve had the time to wander around – a privilege I know some don’t have. To kick stones and laze away the hour hand in a place can make you realise how glad you were that for some reason or other you […]

Categories: Chile, FOOTSTEPS, PHOTOGRAPHY • Tags: Career Break, Carretera Austral, Chile, Cochrane, Patagonia, South America, Tamango National Reserve, Vagabonding

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Taking Seven Months to Get to Brazil

10/06/2014 by Footsteps of a Tree

In a journey that started with us leaving Nottingham over seven months ago, it’s been the topic that’s closest to everyone’s lips. We began in Argentina last November with the banter already rife. They think they have a real chance this time round – if they can defend they might be right – but in the bars of Buenos Aires we didn’t tell them that! We went to watch a game in Argentina and they are so fanatical that away […]

Categories: Brazil, FOOTSTEPS • Tags: Brazil, FIFA, Football, Soccer, South America, Travel, World Cup

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