The Trip

In April of 2009, my wife Bobbie and I did a road trip across Patagonia in a pickup truck camper; driving down the Andes on Argentina’s western highway Ruta 40, coming back east along the Straits of Magellan in Chile, and then back up Argentina’s Atlantic Coast highway Ruta 3. We camped along the way in national parks, municipal campgrounds, truck stops, and many times just alongside the road; and we stopped at every place possible, both famous and not. You can see our route of travel here.

This travel blog is a daily journal of the trip, along with a few pictures (see http://parkenbi.zenfolio.com/patagonia for more photos). The "Last Entry" below is the trip summary, but our journey actually began at a train station in Florida so you'll want to start there ... go to "We're Off".

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Day 13 – In Full Tourist Mode

THE MAIN THING to do in El Calafate is to go see the Perito Moreno Glacier, which … wait; I should explain all the “Perito Morenos”. Ol’ Perito was a famous Argentine explorer of Patagonia back in the nineteenth century, and so got a bunch of stuff got named for him. There’s the town of Perito Moreno (where we stayed a week back) and Perito Moreno National Park (which we detoured off of Ruta 40 to camp at) and the Perito Moreno Glacier. There may be other Perito Morenos coming up, but that’s all I got for now.

Anyway, from El Calafate we drove out 40 miles to Los Glaciares National Park to see Perito Moreno Glacier – which terminates in two lakes and is one of the few in the world that is still advancing – and here are a few pictures (the photos are clickable to get an expanded view):






Camping in Calafate’s municipal ground again today. Although Calafate is further south than Chalten it is warmer here due to the lower altitude, and we are almost thawed out.
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