Travelling Outlaws

Buenos Aires: Futbol, Polo, Walking Tours, and more…

April 8, 2015

by noutlaw

Well we have been busy here in the big city for about a week now. Today we are heading to Montevideo via the boat – leaving our car here in the garage. For the past week we have been pretty busy doing lots of things and being city dwellers. First off I got a bit of the tourista bug so was down for a day, it’s took a shot at Hayden as well so he was also down for a day – but we are back to normal now… Overall we have been cooking at our house since it has a BBQ (Parilla) up stairs on the roof area. Given that we have been eating out for the past month or so it has been nice to cook and eat our own meals. Ok, back to your normally scheduled “things we did”… Read More

2800km Later on RN3, Buenos Aires (Finally!!!)

March 30, 2015

by noutlaw

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Ok we did it – we have finally arrived in Buenos Aires. After driving 2800KM – not including side roads, etc. we have arrived at our lovely townhouse in Palermo Soho – inside of Buenos Aires. The drive was getting very old as nothing was changing. At one point Cindy and I were talking to each other (imagine that) about the drive and she was telling me…. “I’m trying to think of each bush as an individual…” – we had see so many rocky/bushy areas with the occassional Guanaco running around that we were ready for the scenery to change. About 700KM out of Buenos Aires it finally changed and we started getting grass. I had to take a moment to actually say “hey there’s a hill over there”. Read More

There’s this place… Bahia Bustamante, Argentina

March 24, 2015

by noutlaw

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Don’t miss the turn.

Well we have been offline for several days staying at Bahia Bustamante on the coast of Argentina. When you first trying to get here you simply drive along RN/3 (Hwy 3) then you get to a gravel road that cuts off the highway. You do a double take, making sure this is the right place, then realize it must be and start driving down the gravel road. After about 5 KM you are driving through multiple estancia’s – and seeing sheep, Guanaco’s (llama’s), and the occasional Rhea (mini Ostrich) running along the road. It’s a bumpy downhill ride then smooths out as you head towards the ocean – simply wondering where you are going and whwat you will find when you get there. After about 45 minutes of driving on this road (45 KM) you get to Bahia Bustamante. At first glance you feel like you arriving at a closed factory next to a beach with no one there… but as you drive forward you realize you have arrived at this very small town and your home for a couple of days. Special Note: if you find Bahia Bustamante on a map – looking to the East, the next landmass is New Zealand – so we are definately still down here a ways. Realizing that we aren’t even above the tip of Africa after several days of driving was pretty good for the fellas.

Punta Arenas: Exploring this historical city, the Graveyard and our big turn to the North

March 19, 2015

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We have spent a couple of days in Punta Arenas Chile, exploring and doing some routine items. I chipped my tooth again (sorry no photos) in the same spot where it always does – so found my way to a local dentist office. It was very nice – no “do you have insurance’ – simply – you pay $50 and see the doctor. We have talked with many local people about the healthcare system – some people come to South America to have procedures done. One example, a husband/wife team from New York are physicias (he is Argetine) – she was here and broke her hip. Before the surgery the hospital gave him a list of things (IV, needles, tubing, etc.) and he had to go down to the local pharmacy and buy it all. He said in the US it would have cost $1000, it cost about $20. For her hip, the medical device company came to their hotel and they picked out the make/model of the hip – you pay the company directly and then deliver it to the Dr. for replacement. All in all medical care is good, and cheaper here than the US.

Torres De Paine: What an Amazing Place

March 15, 2015

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Snow covered peaks in the park – they opened up for about 30 minutes and they were spectacular.

We made it successfully to our hotel in Torres Del Paine National Park. This park is a huge place, and it is 75KM from the nearest gas station, so you must fill up before hand. We used almost all of our gas getting there, driving around and back to Puerto Natales. We do have spare gas so I wasn’t worried about it though. The roads are really good compared to others we have been on – not too many pot holes, and really not to hard to drive. We arrived at our hotel which was very nice, almost too nice for having kids at – but we showed up, and promptly proceeded to wash our clothes in the tub/sink and hang them all over our bathroom. Probably a no-no in such a fancy place but we needed clean clothes…

Navimag to Torres Del Paine: 5M Seas, 50 knot winds, incredible views, an extra three days… and more

March 13, 2015

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Arrival in Puerto Natales, Spectacular

Well we have been offline for almost a week now. We took a ship from Puerto Montt to Puerto Natales Chile – which goes down the coast “inland” then goes offshore for a stretch of about 14 hours and basically in the sourthern ocean. The boat trip was spectacular, however due to weather we were delayed leaving, delayed in route and delayed getting in. After experiencing the ocean side of the trip I’m glad the captain waited to cross the ocean exposed part. On the trip coming up they had 10+ meter seas (40 ft) and 60+ knot winds – going into the sea and into the winds – i spoke to the medic onboard and every passenger was sick.

Teatro del Lago

March 6, 2015

by Gavin O.

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Teatro del Lago Frutillar

So, there is this really cool Theater on the water that really speaks out to me. On the first of March, we went and saw a graduating concert for the students who were enrolled and were presented their Diploma from College of the arts. After all, this theater is also big on educatio. This theater is well known throughout the world. I mean, people have come from every continent in the world to play at this theater. And this is not just for symphonies. It can be used for Ballet, Opera, Bands, Symphonies, Plays and more. And the nice thing is about this theater, is that it has two auditoriums. One really big, and one not so big. We saw our concert in the smaller one, which has a very nice view of the lake and Osorno Volcano.

Getting to Back to Chile – Frutillar; Studebaker Museum; Submarine, 3500 Year Old Tree; and more…

March 5, 2015

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Frutillar Chile – view from the beach. A great musical oriented place.

Well it’s been about a week since we did a real post about what we have been up to. We successfully crossed back from Argentina to Chile without much of an issue. Taking the car across the border was my biggest concern, however we have our title and US registration and that has been all that’s needed. It seems with vehicles in South America they go off of your plate tag and not the acctual VIN # – so you have to have paperwork (registration) that shows the vehicle tag, your name and vin #. One guy at the border going into Argentina said “very good paperwork” to me – so I think we are doing well by the customs people. Nobody asks to see insurance paperwork at the border either. But insurance is mandatory. When crossing back into Chile they made us take everything out of the car, off the top,, etc and put it on a table, then they looked at a couple of bags and said “you’re good” … so loaded the car back up and off we went.

Villarrica blows up – we are perfectly fine

March 3, 2015

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So the volcano that I have been taking pictures of in Pucon blew it’s top last night.

http://www.today.com/video/today/57056371/

Here is the footage. When we were there it’s status went from green to yellow and we couldn’t do the climb… Now it’s changed forever…

Refugio Fray, Cerro Cathederal, Playing Tourist & another great meal

February 27, 2015

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The view at the top of Refugio Fray- Cerro cathederal in Bariloche- well worth the effort

Refugio Fray – Cerro Cathederal – So we did another very big hike the other day. We hiked to Refugio Fray which sits atop Cerro Catehderal and is a highlight of our trip – from trekking anyway. It’ a longer hike 24KM, with about 600 vertical feet that you do mostly in the last two kilometers. Once you get to the top you find other people who are generally climbing and camping at the refugio. In this section of the park there are many refugio’s that you can hang out at – have some supplies and generally there are other people there. It also had a very nice lake, ice cold water and some places to hang out and relax after the long hike in. We met some people from Kansas/California, England, Germany, etc. For the most part our boys are generally the only kids doing these longer hikes – which is great for them – and they get interesting reaction from others when they are coming down and others are coming up. Read More