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Behind the Painted Smiles

25/02/2014 by Footsteps of a Tree

I don’t want to dwell on this but I always said that Footsteps Of A Tree would be a record of my thoughts on the road… Good and difficult to bear. And so, the festive period was a real battle of emotions, my first away from my family and friends … ever. Ushuaia was a friendly place and the campsite we stayed, with Christmas Asado and all, was a wonderful mix of travellers from all over the world, but it […]

Categories: Argentina, FOOTSTEPS • Tags: Argentina, Backpacking, Career Break, Christmas, Fin del Mundo, Latin America, Patagonia, South America, Travel, Travelling, Ushuaia

Fin Del Mundo – King of Crab!

24/02/2014 by Footsteps of a Tree

Over Christmas we headed to what the Argentines call the end of the world – Ushuaia. The guide books suggested that a steady 18 degrees could be expected with a bit of sunshine. Oh how they were wrong! It was Baltic! Proper cold. In fact it actually snowed for a time on Christmas Day! Yeah a white Christmas! I think we would have celebrated if we hadn’t been rather cold in Elvis our camper van! I was ‘forced’ to drink […]

Categories: Argentina, FOOTSTEPS, PHOTOGRAPHY • Tags: Argentina, Backpacking, Beagle Channel, Campervan, Career Break, Fin del Mundo, King Crab, Patagonia, Photography, South America, Tierra del Fuego, Travel, Travelling, Ushuaia

Elvis is in the building

21/01/2014 by Footsteps of a Tree

When we were planning our trip to South America we decided that given the vast distances involved in Argentina and Chile that we needed our own transport, at least for some of the time. So we booked a wicked camper van for a few months. For anyone who hasn’t seen a wicked camper, they are all painted individually with graffiti art. When we picked ours up, it appeared we had landed ‘The King’. We are loving it. We picked Elvis […]

Categories: WHERE'S ELVIS? • Tags: Argentina, Backpacking, Campervan, Career Break, Chile, Elvis, Elvis Presley, Fin del Mundo, Latin America, Overland, Patagonia, Photography, Punta Arenas, Ruta 3, South America, The King, The King of Rock and Roll, Travel, Travelling, Ushuaia, Wicked Van

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Behind the Painted Smiles

Fin Del Mundo – King of Crab!

Elvis is in the building