Recent content by pmatusov

Loved your write-up on Alvord Desert - here and on your site! Thanks for taking time!

We ended in this place at night last May, and it was outright creepy. But I guess locals may have been scared of us more than we of them.

If you don't mind, where on the (I assume, Pacific) coast were you before you set out to Bahia De Los Angeles?

Molino Viejo is indeed fantastic. Please keep the story going!

Spontaneous is the key word here. Planned family trips are possible but ... I'd have stayed until the "planned" end of our trip in Santiago. I'd have kept the rental car, driven it to Ushuaia, taken all the boat trips there were to take. And, come to think of it, originally I wanted to drive...

The numbers could be correct, yet I don't think they tell the full story. Keep in mind that the protesters were those the least affected by the metro fare increase. Hope they get over that and come out better.

Thanks for the good words. I am still puzzled by what broke in Chile. Chile "had it" much better than all of its neighbors, by all accounts. The riots started by "students" protesting subway fare increase by 4 cents on a dollar. It seems like not a reason to blow up half the country, especially...

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Thank you! A few other photos I like... Buenos Aires A nice pair of 'Mogs near Punta Arenas El Cauquén Común - or common geese J-truck, likely made by Industrias Kaiser Argentina Even the bus station in Punta Arenas has its own tiny museum. Crazy skies and artwork in Puerto...

Day 9: Lima, Peru We get our entry stamps into Peru barely by eight in the morning. Bleary-eyed, we get out of the airport and hail a taxi to Miraflores. Lima... didn't I want to go to Peru earlier? Traffic is ugly, and it takes us nearly an hour to reunite with Jennie. Her room conveniently...

Day 8: Buenos Aires, Argentina We're out of the hotel before the breakfast is served, into a taxi - and at the airport. By the time the Aerolineas Argentinas counter comes alive, there's a long queue behind us. Yuri is checked in to his flight to BA then on to Los Angeles, we run into some...

Day 7: run for the border. Punta Arenas to Rio Gallegos (Argentina) The morning trip to "uptown" LATAM office (no, it is not where Google Maps say it is) results in us rebooked on a flight to Santiago two days from now. In the meantime, Jennie is already enjoying what's there to enjoy in Lima...

Day 6: Punta Arenas, Chile Yuri wakes us up with a text message about the cancelled flight. Oh. TV replays last night's burning-bus footage and informs us that a 10-to-7 curfew is imposed by the order of the President, and that National Guard is deployed. We get a very-unremarkable...

Day 5: Puerto Natales to Punta Arenas Our time in Puerto Natales is up. After breakfast, we pack the bags, toss them into the car, and fill up the tank. It is still windy, although dry and with some chance for sunlight later in the day. Yuri spots a little Lada - makes me wonder how did it end...

We reach the center of El Calafate in the afternoon, just in time for lunch. Now that we're in Argentina, we just have to get our fill of parillada - and we immediately make a grave mistake of ordering a 4-person meal for the three of us. It is the main reason we almost get stranded in...