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pampas pedalling

ARGENTINA/CHILE: CALAFATE — CERRO CASTILLO — PUERTO NATALES

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2014 03 27 anna on my bike Comments (0)

psychosis

The wind rises like psychosis, a black mood. It is imbued with both menace and malice. It toys with me. A game of cat and mouse. It screams and curses. Mutters. Threatens. Pounces. Seizes. Worries. It has teeth. There is no fighting back. It takes possession of me completely, with the embrace of a lover […]

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2014 03 25 anna on my bike Comments (3)

crossings

CHILE/ARGENTINA: VILLA O’HIGGENS — CANDELERIO MANCILLA — EL CHALTEN Lakes, borders, bridges: there are always crossings to be made. The route between Villa O’Higgens and El Chalten is somewhat famous or infamous, depending on your predilections. * None of us felt the urge** to try the trail by Lago del Desierto as an alternative to […]

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2014 03 07 anna on my bike Comments (0)

putting the eco back into eco-camping

I don’t like paying to put up my tent. I really don’t like paying to put up my tent. Nonetheless, I’m going to recommend a ‘camping’ and one that bills itself as an eco-camp, at that. Mauro has a plot of forest just out of Villa O’Higgens and he is slowly building a hidden perma-culture […]

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2014 03 05 anna on my bike Comments (1)

the highways and byways of the carretera austral

CHILE: VILLA MAÑIHUALES — ÑIREGUAO — VILLA ORTEGA — COYHAIQUE — PUERTO IBAÑEZ — CHILE CHICO — COCHRANE — YUNGAY — RIO BRAVO — VILLA O’HIGGENS There is no denying that the Carretera Austral runs through some glorious landscape and so it’s no surprise that its pretty busy during the summer high season. Out of […]

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2014 02 28 anna on my bike Comments (2)

people and bikes – life at a casa de ciclista

CHILE: VILLA MAÑIHUALES

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2014 02 18 anna on my bike Comments (0)

still heading south

ARGENTINA/CHILE: BARILOUCHE — EL BOLSÓN — CHOLILA — PARQUE NACIONAL LOS ALERCES — TREVELÍN — VILLA SANTA LUCIA — LA JUNTA — PUYUHUAPI — VILLA MAÑIHUALES I enter Chile for the fourth time at Futaleufu. The Andes are a less formidable obstacle at this latitude

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2014 02 17 anna on my bike Comments (2)

the forest foray

CHILE/ARGENTINA: CHILLÁN — PEMUCO — YANGAY — ANTUCO — SANTA BABARA — RALCO — LEPOY –LANQUIMAY — ICALMA — CUNCO — VILLARRICA — PUCON — COÑARIPE — PASO CARIRRIÑE — SAN MARTIN DE LOS ANDES — TRUFEL — SAN CARLOS DE BARILOUCHE * “When I was younger, I was a stock trader…,” was his somewhat […]

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2014 02 05 anna on my bike Comments (20)

people and bikes

CHILE: MOLINA

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2014 01 21 anna people and bikes Comments (1)

industrialised! (or: first impressions of chile*)

CHILE: LOS QUEÑES — ROMERAL — CURICO — MOLINA — SAN CLEMENTE — COLBUN — LINARES — CHILLÁN Hell, no, there isn’t any pre-industrial here! Chile is a ‘developed’ nation. It’s a South American success story, all based on Chicago school economics. *To be honest, this is in fact my third foray into Chile’s territories […]

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2014 01 20 anna on my bike Comments (0)