Tierra del Fuego
What a place to conjure with: The Land of Fire!
First, a surprise, fab sighting of some very close flamingoes as we left benighted Rio Gallegos. A bonus.
Bleak. Desolate. Actually, make that bleak and desolate times 10, or even 20. It is impossible to convey just how grim and empty today's 300 kms to Rio Grande have been. And the wind, the howling, knock you down freezing cold wind that blows across this desolate place and is a constant presence, apparently.
It may have only been 300 kms or so but we went through two border crossings and took a ferry across the Magellan Straits, so quite a lot happened. A little bit of Chile sticks into Argentina and has the only road into Tierra Del Fuego so there was lots of passport stamping at the efficient immigration posts. We also had to leave the last incarnation of car #7 in Chile as we could not get permission to take it on to Ushuaia, in Argentina.
We had arranged for it to be collected at the Chilean border post before we crossed back into Argentina . What eventually happened was that we left it at a police post at the God forsaken border to be collected by Hertz tomorrow and we are having a lift with Jose and Maria all the way to Ushuaia, not so very far away now.
Tomorrow we reach the southernmost city in the world. It's been an odd rally for us, obviously. Not at all what we envisaged as we set off from Rio 154 years ago. Still, we have driven thousands of miles, seen wonderful, miraculous things, been in the pit of despair in Bolivia, kept smiling through, trying to make the most of it and had the best possible time in the circumstances.
It's not over yet, still a couple of hundred miles to go and so we are keeping everything crossed that all remaining cars have a safe and uneventful last days driving tomorrow.
I'm getting a very large number of people reading this blog and if all of you donated even a small amount to my chosen charity some of the most disadvantaged children in the world would have access to education and be able to start the long climb out of the cycle of poverty that they are destined to remain in otherwise.
It's easy:
Just go to our website. www.shootersdrivetheworld.com
Read all about the Ponheary Ly Foundation
Click on Virgin Money giving at the top
Have a credit card ready or use paypal
Consider gift aid if you are a UK taxpayer
Get a lovely, warm, happy glow from knowing that your contribution has made a real difference to the forgotten children of Cambodia.
To find out more look at: www.theplf.org
THANK YOU
First, a surprise, fab sighting of some very close flamingoes as we left benighted Rio Gallegos. A bonus.
Bleak. Desolate. Actually, make that bleak and desolate times 10, or even 20. It is impossible to convey just how grim and empty today's 300 kms to Rio Grande have been. And the wind, the howling, knock you down freezing cold wind that blows across this desolate place and is a constant presence, apparently.
It may have only been 300 kms or so but we went through two border crossings and took a ferry across the Magellan Straits, so quite a lot happened. A little bit of Chile sticks into Argentina and has the only road into Tierra Del Fuego so there was lots of passport stamping at the efficient immigration posts. We also had to leave the last incarnation of car #7 in Chile as we could not get permission to take it on to Ushuaia, in Argentina.
We had arranged for it to be collected at the Chilean border post before we crossed back into Argentina . What eventually happened was that we left it at a police post at the God forsaken border to be collected by Hertz tomorrow and we are having a lift with Jose and Maria all the way to Ushuaia, not so very far away now.
Tomorrow we reach the southernmost city in the world. It's been an odd rally for us, obviously. Not at all what we envisaged as we set off from Rio 154 years ago. Still, we have driven thousands of miles, seen wonderful, miraculous things, been in the pit of despair in Bolivia, kept smiling through, trying to make the most of it and had the best possible time in the circumstances.
It's not over yet, still a couple of hundred miles to go and so we are keeping everything crossed that all remaining cars have a safe and uneventful last days driving tomorrow.
I'm getting a very large number of people reading this blog and if all of you donated even a small amount to my chosen charity some of the most disadvantaged children in the world would have access to education and be able to start the long climb out of the cycle of poverty that they are destined to remain in otherwise.
It's easy:
Just go to our website. www.shootersdrivetheworld.com
Read all about the Ponheary Ly Foundation
Click on Virgin Money giving at the top
Have a credit card ready or use paypal
Consider gift aid if you are a UK taxpayer
Get a lovely, warm, happy glow from knowing that your contribution has made a real difference to the forgotten children of Cambodia.
To find out more look at: www.theplf.org
THANK YOU
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