Rio Gallegos to Puerto San Julian (Argentina)
WE ARE HEADING north along the Atlantic coast on Nacional Ruta 3, which will be our home for about 1600 miles until we reach Buenos Aires; and also which we understand is paved the whole way. This is a housekeeping and travel day: got the laundry done, washed two week’s worth of Ruta 40's dirt off the truck, saw the town museum; and then hit the road on a dreary day.
While heading up Ruta 3 we decided to drive into Monte León National Park, which was an old huge sheep estancia between the Atlantic Ocean and the highway and is now Argentina’s newest national park. And there, on a dirt road far from anywhere we again ran into Simon and Katherine; last seen many days ago at Torres del Paine. I now have no choice but to conclude that we are the only four people traveling across Patagonia.
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".
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".
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