Dear Friends, Family, Travelers,
After meeting up with a couple guys from Ireland on the ship, we decided to go for a backpacking trip in the famous Torres del Paine national park. It's the big tourist destination from Puerto Natales, Chile, which seems to be the sole source of income for the town. Anyway we got all geared up and headed for the mountains. The first day we had decent weather and hiked a few hours to Glacier Grey. It was here where I saw my first glacier. Glaciers are wild…ancient, powerful, patient, grand, chunks of water in various states of freeze and thaw.
The second day in the park the weather took a violent turn and kicked up quite a breeze mixed with rain and bits of snow. Upon returning from a day hike further up the trail we found a huge tree blow over in camp! (see pic). The next day we hiked back to the refugio (an overpriced hostel with restaurant) in freezing, sideways blowing rain. Once we arrived hungry, cold and wet, we spent the next day warming up and drying out. The weather forecast was more of the same for the next few days, so most of us decided to head back to town. One brave (or crazy) man from our group, See-Kui, pushed on despite the weather. I know he is still alive because I received an email!
Once back in Puerto Natales, I decided to head north through Argentina to El Calafate to see the Perito Mereno glacier. It is quite an impressive piece of ice. You can read about the glacier on wikipedia .
Again, you can see my photos at http://picasaweb.google.com/jackdcarrier/PeritoMorenoGlaciar
I spent one too many days in the tourist town of El Calafate because of travel arrangements. I also had the pleasure of getting bit by some kind of bugs in a crap hostel. Maybe bed bugs. A half dozen nice, itchy welps. I got to spend a couple days screwing around, with my current best friend, this laptop. You can see some of my boredom here….
http://picasaweb.google.com/jackdcarrier/DogsWithBaldManFromAbove
Now I'm making my way to Buenos Aires through a complicated itinerary. I hope to meet back up with my Irish friends in B.A.
I just got around to putting up another album from a couple days I spent helping a farmer back in San Felipe. You can check it out at…
http://picasaweb.google.com/jackdcarrier/CampoDeManuel
All for now. I need to get busy waiting for 6 more hours until my flight. I wonder how long this cafe will let me sit here?
=^)
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