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December 21, 2004

Advenures in Transit

I left Uyuni on the night train to Oruro, which was supossed to leave at midnight, but didn't leave until 1am. The only logical explanation for the delay is that, it is Bolivia. I have found that 'It's Bolivia,' is...

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December 18, 2004

Pass the Salt Please

The Salar de Uyuni in southwestern Bolivia covers 12,000 square km, and is the worlds largest salt flats. About 30,000 years ago, the salt flats were covered by a lake called Lago Munchin. When the sea dried up, it left...

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December 14, 2004

From Seasickness to Altitude Sickness

Getting from Buenos Aires to Uyuni, Bolivia, my jumping off point for the tour to the Bolivian Salt Flats was an adventure in itself. The flight from Buenos Aires to Salta was uneventful, and I only stayed one night there...

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December 12, 2004

And For My Next Act...

So here I am in Buenos Aires. I spent about 75% of my first two days here blogging about Antarctica. I also made a quick stop into the U.S. Embassy to get more pages put into my passport, since it...

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November 27, 2004

The End of the World

The city of Ushuaia, Argentina fames itself with the catch phrase that it is the "End of the World." All over the town there are souvenirs and signs that exploit this fact. They even have a double decker bus like...

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November 22, 2004

Determined to Climb

After not being able to do the glacier trek I had planned due to being bogged in mud, I was excited that I'd have another chance in the Torres Del Paine National Park in Chile. All of the glaciers in...

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November 17, 2004

Stuck in the Mud

After Pucon, We crossed the border into Argentina, which seemed more like the entrance gate to a national park, rather than a border crossing. we made a quick stop to a small town called Bariloche, which is in the an...

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November 09, 2004

Michelle vs. the Volcano

I used my time in Santiago to regroup and relax before I started on a tour heading down the coast to Ushuaia, my jumping off point for Antarctica. I did manage to find a Ruby Tuesdays in the city and...

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November 04, 2004

I would! I would!

I just wanted to share this video with everyone. I posted it a long time ago before I even left on this trip, but now that I´ve been on the road for a while, I thought I´d post it again....

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City Hopping

The next week or so entailed flying from Arequipa to Lima, spending a couple days there, and then flying from Lima back to Santiago - city of Taco Bell signs but NO Taco Bell. I´m still bitter about that. I...

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October 31, 2004

Juanita the Ice Maiden

After a long drive from Cusco, stopping at the deepest canyon in the world,Colca Canyon, which is about twice as deep as the Grand Canyon in Arizona. The purpose of our stop was to see the condors with the 3...

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October 29, 2004

In the Jungle...

No time to rest, I arrived back into Cusco around 7pm on tuesday night and had to do laundry and repack my bags for our next trip, into the Amazon Jungle! The Amazon is an enormous jungle that spreads across...

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October 27, 2004

The Inca Trail

One of the highlights for most people who come to Peru, or even South America, is to do the four day hike to the lost Inca city of Machu Picchu. There were seven of us from the group that were...

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October 21, 2004

The Islands of Lake Titicaca

After crossing the border into Peru, our first stop would be the small port town of Puno. It would be our base for our trip onto Lake Titicaca and a few of its islands. Lake Titicaca is known as the...

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October 20, 2004

A good wake up call

In the end, it´s probably a good thing that I had a near-mugging experience. I had been a little slack since leaving Africa, where I was wearing my money belt 24-7. Australia is safe for the most part, so I...

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October 16, 2004

A better day in La Paz

Viala and I met for breakfast at 10am in the hotel, I still had a headache, but I forced myself to get up if even just to get some water. After breakfast, we went walking around town again. We didn´t...

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Could it be worse?

It´s funny that I decided to name that previous entry "It could always be worse," because I thought to myself several times during my first day in La Paz, "Could this be worse?" Since I didn´t wake up until the...

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October 14, 2004

Why did I take French in High School?

There are almost 30 countries that speak spanish as their primary language and only a handful that speak french. So why did I take four years of french in high school? Who knows. In most places, especially in big cities,...

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¿Yo Quiero Taco Bell?

After landing in Santiago in the early afternoon, I took a shuttle bus into town and checked into the Hotel Santa Lucia. It was a nice little hotel near the center of the city and for $32 per night, can´t...

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It could always be worse

When I got to the Sydney Airport for my flight to Santiago, I went to the Quantas check in desk. I was suprised that there were only about 10 people in line, but that was good since the shuttle bus...

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