As I write the rain is pummeling down on the thatched roof of the Hostel– a sage reminder that the “dry” season is not entirely sure it has arrived. And a reminder too that the decision we took to run 150 miles west to avoid the inundated wetlands in the middle of Bolivia was probably …
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Seems hard to believe we have been running for 9 months. Three-quarters of a year ! Whilst progress has felt painfully slow at times, and sometimes just plain hard, now when we look around we see palms and parrots, chaotic Latino markets and lorries plying along dusty roads precariously laden with bananas and tropical fruits …
Location: Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. Total Days Run: 263. Total Miles Run 3,626 miles. The rains have come. This is something we have been worrying about since we started planning the expedition nearly two years ago! Weather has never stopped us running before: we’ve run through howling wind, snow, blistering heat and torrential …
We have just starting writing blogs for www.soymaratonista.com, a running website. You can find the first three blogs in Spanish and English here.….
At 12:30 local time today, 24th March 2013, we exchanged the trailer for the last time on blue and white soil and crossed the border out of Argentina (despite a last minute fumble where we couldn´t find the doorway for Bolivia in between the border towns!!)!! Although we couldnt find a checkbox on the Immigration …
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A selection of 31 pictures from our final 31 days running in Argentina. A story within each, a memory. [oqeygallery id=12]
“Better than horsemeat no doubt, and with a distinctive gamey flavour – but not half dry and tendonous!” That’s is our culinary assessment of Darwin’s Nothura, a grouse-like species of fowl, native to Argentina. We don’t tend to eat the subjects of our Megatransect wildlife surveys! But today as we ran the long asphalt road …
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We’ve finally reached the city of San Miguel de Tucuman. We’ve been dreaming of reaching it for months, because it’s past the fold on our map! It means we are inching our way closer and closer to Bolivia and all things north- hooray! A few thoughts and news, including the latest “one-shoe episode”: We gave …
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Click here to find a “recipe” for homemade 100% ecofriendly wetwipes!! Good for a tight budget, too! Since we left San Carlos de Bariloche, approximately 1,200 miles away, we have passed less than a handful of rivers on our route – it’s incredibly dry this side of the Andes mountain range, living in the world’s biggest …