Excerpts from a Journal October 29th, 2012 We arrived in Johannesburg at 8am on October 27th after an 8 1/2 hour flight from Buenos Aires. It really wasn’t so painful. Unfortunately, we took a wrong turn exiting the plane and ended up in immigration instead of continuing
Read more →North Central Argentina is grand, colorful, and truly unique. Our most recent Frontera trip took us back through the Valle Calchaqui and the Quebrada de Humahuaca. Areas used by Incan traders so many years ago. Incan ruins abound in these areas and many of the people here
Read more →Excerpts from a Journal May 9, 2012 I’m writing this to avoid being seasick. It should have the opposite affect when sitting on a sailboat that’s rocking and rolling, but it seems to be working. Normally, I can’t even read in the car. The hard part is
Read more →German and I recently spent five days at El Condor in southern Patagonia, an estancia in a remote location near the Chilean border. We were the guests of Raphael Smart, Jaime Smart, and Alejandro Serret of the Cielos Patagonicos investment group. This beautiful estancia sits beside the
Read more →The plane touches down at 10pm. It’s dark outside the windows of the Gulfstream jet that just brought us here. We exit the plane into a darkness occasionally interrupted by headlights of vehicles, a fire truck, and flashlights in the hands of those awaiting us. It reminds
Read more →Striated Caracara, Imperial Cormorant, and Juvenile Elephant Seal Rockhopper Penguin and Black-browed Albatross As I write this, it’s summer in December and I’m in the Falkland Islands. German and I are sitting along a stretch of beach on Sea Lion Island. The sand is white and the
Read more →Where we are I’m sitting on a 71 foot sailing vessel called the Ocean Light II. It’s raining, as it has been for days. The temperature averages about 50F, but it seems colder because of the humidity and wind. I keep a cup of hot tea nearby
Read more →The beginning I don’t know how to tell this story. I’ve tried to write it many times. The reason for my difficulty is emotional: a mixture of anxiety, desire, frustration, and failure. This is a sad story. The story begins on a small estancia in Northeastern Argentina,
Read more →Tucuman, Jujuy, and Salta Provinces When German approached me about doing a scouting trip to northern Argentina, I was skeptical. My mind played images of barren desert landscapes with little wildlife to be seen. Yes, I’d seen colorful photos of mountains and giant cacti that were very
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