This fine monument to the commode, complete with toilet garden, can be found hidden in the front hillside yard of a brightly painted ramshackle house. The sign proclaims that this […]

Having already locomoted by plane, bus, subway, taxi, ferries, zodiacs, kayak, and foot, we then added a rental car to the mix. Isla Chiloe, southwest of our cargo ferry destination port of Puerto Montt, was the next stage of our journey and we wanted to go places too remote and […]

Imagine trying to get your piece of luggage off the top of this pile…

Aside from Los Torres, the Valle del Frances (French Valley) was the park’s other crown jewel of geological art. The valley headed north from the lake past a campsite and up along a boulder river, pushing into valley-funneled winds that had twisted the canopy of small leafed aerodynamic trees into […]

Michael hanging out with Seattle’s Fremont Troll