Posted in on May 4th, 2013 Comments Off on Chiclayo – 5/3/2013
The Panamericana through Peru has run in the coastal plain along the Pacific Ocean. Sometimes it diverted inland a ways but it always comes back. And almost the entire way the road has gone through desert that may be statistically less arid than the Atacama, you would not believe it when if you saw it. […]
Posted in on May 3rd, 2013 Comments Off on To Lima – 5/2/2013
We’re greeted to our first cloudy day since we left Santiago. There’s a heavy overcast and a few miles up the road, the windshield starts to mist up. And a few miles later still, the road is fully wet. It never does actually rain. But the change from the super bright but dusty days is […]
Posted in on May 2nd, 2013 Comments Off on To Ica – 5/1/2013
We get a beautiful day after a no so beautiful night. First, there are the explosions which are probably from fireworks prematurely celebrating May Day. I hope they’re from fireworks because we sitting in a bowl made by three volcanoes, one of which has a nasty habit of destroying Arequipa every hundred years or so. […]
Posted in on May 2nd, 2013 Comments Off on Into Peru – 4/30/2013
Arica is only a short distance from the frontier with Peru. We, as usual, get a bit lost trying to get out of town. We had seen a supermarket near where we had the oil changed yesterday and we wanted to but some water. We found the store but when we went to leave we […]
Posted in on May 1st, 2013 Comments Off on Arica Rest Day – 4/29/2013
Last night, after we had checked in to the hotel and were headed out to find some dinner, we stopped at the front desk and asked if they could direct to a mechanic. We had a problem with our car and we needed to get some welding done. The woman at the desk said no […]
Posted in on Apr 29th, 2013 Comments Off on North to Arica – 4/28/2013
We’re on our way to Arica, the last major city in Chile. We leave the coast and drive back up to the desert. Soon it’s same boring ride north through the desert. It’s hard to explain just how empty the Atacama really is. At least when we were in Kazakhstan, there were some plants and […]
Posted in on Apr 29th, 2013 Comments Off on The Atacama Desert – 4/27/2013
Chile is on still on Daylight Savings time and that combined with the high mountains to east makes for a very late dawn. Dawn does even begin until 7:30 and even on a clear morning, not common on the coast in our experience, the sun does shine until 8:30 or later in the south. As […]
Posted in on Apr 28th, 2013 Comments Off on Off to Mendoza – 4/26/2013
Now that we have the car, we have to get it reorganized for the trip home. Before we left Australia, we’d consolidated the gear and thrown own out some stuff that we’d been carrying and didn’t need. Most of the discards were junk that had accumulated but some had been extra bags that we’d had […]
Posted in on Apr 28th, 2013 Comments Off on Off to Mendoza – 4/26/2013
Now that we have the car, we have to get it reorganized for the trip home. Before we left Australia, we’d consolidated the gear and thrown own out some stuff that we’d been carrying and didn’t need. Most of the discards were junk that had accumulated but some had been extra bags that we’d had […]
Posted in on Apr 27th, 2013 1 Comment »
We’re up and at breakfast by 8 and moving again by 8:30. There’s really no rush. We’re less than 100 miles from San Antonio and we’ll be there easily by 11. But we’re not on the cutoff that we planned to be on and we have to wind our way through some smallish back roads […]
