100 Today
This is the story of my Grandma - Anna
Into thin Andean air
Published: Sunday Star Times - Escape & Stuff.co.nz (2018) Into thin Andean air The dirt track twists and winds its way up the face of...
On thin ice
Published: Sunday Star Times - Escape & Stuff.co.nz (2017) On thin ice The crack and rumble of rifle fire reverberates through the jags...
Into the Wild
The guanaco gazes as I ride past. Wide eyes, curious or in contempt for this noisy creature crossing its peaceful and expansive...
A Fork in the Road
If you come to a fork in the road - take it. My fork on the Carretera Austral arrives a few hours south of Puerto Tranquilo at the...
Going to the Chapel
The chapel is flooded. The Cathedral is swamped. Azure water laps at the knave and fish swim between the stone arches. The Capillas de...
Ripio–ing it up on the Carretera Austral
On the Road - early March 2016 The 120km of paved road from to Cerro Castillo will be the last pavement I’ll see until Argentina. I dodge...
Under the Castle
Cerro Castillo towers above the tiny town that shares its name. As the sun sets, the glowing jagged towers cast their shadows down on...
A meeting with the Carretera Austral
The shock of running into a paved road is soon soothed and smoothed away as my first taste of the mighty Carretera Austral is a stretch...
Floating on the Futaleufu
My Spanish isn’t great but it’s good enough to understand what ever “hold on” is in Spanish. The raft rocks and rolls against the...
