Feelings from the Road.

The day before yesterday I was completely dejected. We were on the verge of meeting our 1000th mile and I was miserable! I felt like a little old sparrow hobbling along. Everything hurt, from the outside of my knees, to my ankles and shoulders. Then came

1000th Mile!!!!

We’re head over heels.. we’ve run our 1000th mile! Feeling very sore and achy, but managing to keep running. The trailer has been re-born and appears better for it. It’s still very heavy up and down the hills, but the wheels keep turning. We’re still running the spectacular Carretera Austral in southern Chile. Lots of hills, …

Depression and Woes Under the Moon

Two sore ankles, two sore knees, one sore hip, the other ones are just sore at night, one sore back, tingling Achilles and fingers, two sore heads. What kind of animal does that make us? Hmm. Arrived into Cochrane yesterday afternoon. Found a campsite. Tapped until the cockerels decided to chat (school presentation imminent). They …

Naked river crossings in winter wonderland epic quest to find the start line

  I am writing this blog from my fingertips in the warmth and safety of a pitstop in a B&B, but in reality it was etched in my memory 4 days before. I am in the back of a 4×4 pickup being whisked along in the dark with the Magellan Straights to my left, my …

A Magician brings tidings of a cold spell

Mago arrived today, on a boat from Buenos Aires. Mago means Magician in Spanish. Actually he is called “mono de milano”, the Monkey of Milan. Maybe he has a more convential name but when someone as charasmatic as Mono arrives such formalities seem unimportant  and inappropriate. He is a modern day legend of the Southern …