Category: The Patagonia
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Bus Trips
Eleven hours to go less than 300 miles, but there were spectacular mountain peaks with vertical sides surrounded by clouds, twisting two-lane roads, bottomless gorges, endless cliffs 2 feet away from the bus that dropped down forever, but it was a modern road. Day off today. Have I written about the marches, protests, and in…
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Bogotá to Cali
I am at the Terminal de Buses, and as usual, I arrived way too early, but I get to hang and relax. Buying a ticket was easy and cost only 65K. It’s a long ride, about ten hours, and I get to Cali at seven or eight PM. It’s not a mob scene, and everything…
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Bogota, Colombia
I have been in Bogotá now for nearly four weeks. I would have left five days ago, but the national strike and a severe cold persuaded me to put it off for a few more days. I leave tomorrow for Cali. I changed AirBnB a few days ago, and my new hosts, Claudia and Jairo,…
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Time Flies
Sometimes I feel like I have bitten off more than I can chew. This amount of gear is crazy! I am bringing 4 rods; a 13.5 in switch rod, a Loomis 10 weight 9 ft, a Winston Boron III 6 weight 9 ft, and a Winston Air 5 weight 9 ft, and if I am…
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Getting Ready
<p class="has-drop-cap" value="<amp-fit-text layout="fixed-height" min-font-size="6" max-font-size="72" height="80">I am moving in the direction of leaving for South America the last week of October. My initial plan is to spend two months in Bogota, Colombia, and three months in Patagonia, and I will buy my tickets the first week of September.I am moving in the direction of…
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The NY Times On Patagonia
Here is the link to the article. www.nytimes.com/2019/03/06/travel/chile-patagonia-fly-fishing.html
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Obtener un número de teléfono celular es difícil, si!
As of November 1, 2021, the requirements to register one’s phone with a local SIM card in Chile has changed. Here is the webpage you need to look at in Google Chrome with the Spanish to English translate on in settings. https://multibanda.cl/soy-extranjero-foreigner/ Getting a temporary cell phone number in Chile is a chore. I have…
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Vaccinations
Make sure you are up-to-date on routine vaccines before every trip. These vaccines include measles-mumps-rubella (MMR), diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis, varicella (chickenpox), polio vaccine, and your yearly flu shot, do not forget pneumonia if you are older. When you get these shots, be sure to have them recorded on the Yellow Card provided by the World Health Organization;…
A River To Fish 