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part two of an amateur hiking guide in Patagonia With the help of a very popular brand’s old catalogue, I will try my best to explain this image: “Patagonia brings to mind romantic visions of glaciers tumbling into fjords, jagged windswept peaks, gauchos and condors.” Tim Patterson , a travel writer, commented on his experience, “It was so quiet, apart from the wind. Clouds boiled up from the ice-field and swirled like schools of herring around the peak of Mt. Fitzroy. One mi

In divine timing, I started reading Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey just days before I left for Utah to see the state that is the literal existence of my favorite color. Funny enough, in the preface, before the pages even begin he writes a word of caution, “Do not jump in our automobile next June and rush out to the canyon country hoping to see some of that which I have attempted to evoke in these pages. In the first place, you can’t see anything from a car; you’ve got to ge

Merienda, the art of sitting around a table with no time constraints or conversation limits.

When I look back at this trip I don't remember the sights we saw or count the times we were cat called but rather ...