Tirandentes hadn’t made it onto our original itinerary. Not because it wasn’t worth visiting, but because we couldn’t determine a route that didn’t have us backtracking between Petropolis, Belo Horizonte (Brazil’s 3rd largest city), Tirandentes and Ouro Preto before making…
A very cold boat ride in Ushuaia
With our tour of the Beagle Channel from Ushuaia rescheduled from the night before, we packed on nearly all of our clothes (in hindsight, I should have added a t-shirt for a fifth layer) and headed to the boat. We…
Two Minutes to get to Buenos Aires
I arrived in Toronto a few days before our flight to Buenos Aires, as I wanted to visit friends. On the day of our midnight flight, Marieke and I met up with her friends for a drink. As it was…