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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

“North to South”

27/05/2014 by Footsteps of a Tree

Road Music – Disc#5 Silent Alarm Remixed by Bloc Party With our legs aching and our bellies rumbling after a long day hiking, we jumped in the van and headed out of El Chaltén on Ruta 23. It was around 6pm and as we drove out the town our mirrors were quickly filled with a beautiful late day vista of Fitz Roy, resisting being wrapped in the advancing night clouds it wanted to salute our departure. As we headed east […]

Categories: Argentina, FOOTSTEPS, PHOTOGRAPHY, ROAD MUSIC, Uncategorized • Tags: Argentina, Backpacking, Bloc Party, Campervan, Career Break, Fitz Roy, Latin America, Patagonia, Road Music, Silent Alarm, South America, Spotify, Travel, Travelling, Vagabonding, Wicked Van

The Rosario Red

25/04/2014 by Footsteps of a Tree

Walking down from a days hiking to the top of El Chaltén in Patagonian, Argentina I had one if those moments that you just don’t expect or can believe. I’d walked up there in my Nottingham Forest shirt, not sure why I’d put it on that morning – I just had. The trek had been hard going, particularly towards the top but we were close to getting back and I was looking forward to some dinner and obviously a beer. […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Argentina, Backpacking, Career Break, El Chaltén, Fitz Roy, Football, Foreign Fanclub, Latin America, Nottingham Forest, Patagonia, Rosario, South America, Travel, Travelling, Tricky Trees

Old Smokey

20/04/2014 by Footsteps of a Tree

Next stop on the roller coast of astonishing Southern Patagonian sights it was time to head to the iconic ‘smokey mountain’; Fitz Roy. Unfortunately, we had no idea whether it was smokey or not. We arrived to thick cloud covering the range and after we nipped to the tourist office it began to rain, and rain, and rain. Abysmal. Undeterred we pitched up at a quirky French run campsite on the north side of the mountain and sat it out. […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Argentina, Backpacking, Career Break, El Chaltén, Fitz Roy, Hiking, Laguna Capri, Laguna de los Tres, Laguna Piedras Blancas, Latin America, Patagonia, Photography, Smokey Mountain, South America, Travel, Travelling, Trekking

“Tell me lies… Tell me sweet little lies”

13/04/2014 by Footsteps of a Tree

Road Music – Disc#3 Greatest Hits by Fleetwood Mac. We had already seen some amazing wildness in Southern Patagonia but it was about to get really special as we headed out of Puerto Natales on Ruta 9 – destination Torres Del Paine. As we departed, the new year excitement and an anticipation of life to come on the road caused me to flick through my iPhone to choose some road music. I don’t no why but my finger landed on […]

Categories: Chile, FOOTSTEPS, PHOTOGRAPHY, ROAD MUSIC, Uncategorized • Tags: Backpacking, Campervan, Career Break, Chile, Christine McVie, Fleetwood Mac, Greatest Hits, Latin America, Nissan Patrol, Patagonia, Photography, Puerto Natales, Road Music, South America, Spotify, Stevie Nicks, Torres Del Paine, Travel, Travelling, Triumph Stag, Wicked Van

Asado; An art not a science?

27/02/2014 by Footsteps of a Tree

Warning – Vegetarians avert your eyes….Now then, for those of you who don’t know the Argentines love their meat. So much so that we recently picked up an Argentine hitchhiker who knew little English but every time we drove past a cow he proclaimed excitedly “Asado!” Broadly speaking an Asado is a term used for having a barbecue – but that description in our experience doesn’t even touch the surface of what the term means to the Argentines. It’s their […]

Categories: Argentina, FOOTSTEPS, PHOTOGRAPHY, Uncategorized • Tags: Argentina, Asado, Backpacking, Career Break, Cerveza, Latin America, Meat, Parrilla, Patagonia, Photography, South America, Travelling

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