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Hiking in El Chalten

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The next morning we left El Calafate and made the two and a half hour drive to El Chalten. Here we were going to be spending the next two days and go on four hikes. We had booked ourselves a nice little house. With a growing family sometimes a small hotel room just doesn't cut it and if in the same price range we can get a little extra room to spread out I am all for it. We were there and ready to start hiking by noon. We picked up some wraps to take with us. The first hike started from right behind our hotel so that was perfect. HIKE ONE - Mirador del Torre - it is described as a relatively easy 4 mile hike. At the end you get to see panoramic views of Cerro Torre, the Adela range, and the Fitzroy River canyon.  The town behind us.  We spotted a Rufous-collared sparrow, known locally as chingolo. and a Chilean flicker, a type of woodpecker.. and that is all. When we got to the viewpoint there was no view. The clouds and mist had rolled in.. it even rained for a bit and...
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Friday Photography

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                            Remember the chair photograph I had posted a few weeks ago? Well here is chair number two. There was another room with a another chair. A different chair but a similar vibe. This one I have sold a few times and is still available for purchase on Etsy .  You can buy this print here . Get Free Shipping with code BLOGGER Prints also available in larger sizes. Contact for more information and special requests. I am open to wholesale and licensing opportunities. Get in touch for more information.                                    Etsy             Instagram             Twitter             Redbubble             Zazz...
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Crossing Borders and a Growing Glacier

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This month is just blowing right by and tomorrow starts the Holy month of Ramadan meaning we are all about to get a whole lot busier. I have been sharing a post about Ramadan every year which you can check out here . As always I am available to answer any questions you might have..  Right now I want to continue with our trip to Patagonia. We started with a few ups and downs  and then found ourselves in the magical Torres Del Paine  now we head to Argentina.  So I had checked a bunch of forums and had read multiple times about people driving into Argentina from Chile and I "assumed" that they were renting a car in one country and returning it in another. I was mistaken. Turns out those people were making round trips. So how were people like us crossing the border?                                They take a bus. What should have been a 4 hour drive took us 6 hours! We slept.. a lot. We went...
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Torres Del Paine National Park, Chile

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Hopefully, leaving our misadventures behind  us in Punta Arena, we got in our rental car on the 26th of December and made the three hour drive to Puerto Natales.  Puerto Natales is a port city in Chilean Patagonia. The drive was uneventful. We saw many many sheep, some gaunico's and got pretty close to the Argentinian border. It was very very windy (something we were going to get very familiar with) so we didn't stop to take any pictures..  But the moment we got close enough to see the city.. it was pure jaw dropping magic and pictures do not do justice to the beauty.  Their city's mascot is a Mylodon, a prehistoric giant ground sloth that lived in Patagonia over 10,000 years ago.  We stayed in an Airbnb we could not find.. the GPS coordinates were way off and the host did not speak English and we felt our bad luck following us around.. but once we finally found it.. it was the prettiest place. The view.. horses grazing in the distance.. definition of idyll...
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