In Patagonia Day 38
In Patagonia Day 38 Pucon—Huerquehue National Park—Pucon Some years ago I spent a year living with my family in Maastricht, Netherlands. While walking Umbro the dog around the neighborhood, I always stopped to puzzle over a tree that was strange to me—contorted branches covered with thick green scaly leaves. On the one hand, it resembled […]
In Patagonia Day 20
In Patagonia Day 20 El Chaltén—Lago del Desierto—El Chaltén Today was about borders—national, hydrological, botanical, and geological. My last day in Argentina’s Glacier National Park was a shuttle ride up a rough gravel road with many one-lane wooden bridges to Lago del Desierto, a long narrow lake 37 kilometers from El Chaltén. The plan was […]