The Great South America Trip

Tuesday, December 21, 2004


The glacier up close. Posted by Hello
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      • We heard this morning that there was a terrible fi...
      • Marina and Donna modeling their new leathers -- a ...
      • Every Thursday for 30 years a group of grandmother...
      • Marina and Donna participating in the march. 
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      • Marina and Donna mimicking the "Woman's Bridge", s...
      • Stanley on an unauthorized climb of the Woman's Br...
      • All around Buenos Aires you see couples necking in...
      • Lenny looking into the detailed engineering aspect...
      • Yesterday, we finally got to meet our long lost re...
      • The Central Synagogue in Buenos Aires -- unfortuna...
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      • Donna and Marina in the "City of the Dead" -- the ...
      • Marina climbing one of the multi-hundred year old ...
      • Buenos Aires
      • At last night's tango show, which went past midnig...
      • Marina and Donna at "La Caminita", an ourdoor muse...
      • Marina pretending to be a guard at one of the old ...
      • Donna with her mother's first cousins, who visited...
      • The view of Buenos Aires from the window of our to...
      • Stanley's close encounter with a museum exhbit abo...
      • From Santiago to Buenos Aires
      • Buenos Aires
      • The Santiago stock exchange -- lots of computers b...
      • Marina helping Stanley learn to be a guard. 
      • The changing of the guard at La Moneda in Santiago. 
      • Santiago, Chile
      • The weather in Santiago
      • The trip to the top of the mountain is on a creaky...
      • Looking down from the San Cristobal mountain to th...
      • Marina and Lenny at the famous Statue of the Virgi...
      • Donna eyeing the fish at the Mercado Central in Sa...
      • The farewell dinner for Jessica and David, at a gr...
      • Yesterday we concluded our Explora visit with an e...
      • Today was another one of those days where the day ...
      • On the hike to the calcium carbonate formations at...
      • Donna flirting with our guide Andreas. 
      • Modern-day gauchos and the lunch they cooked for u...
      • Monday's CCN story: "PUNTA ARENAS, Chile (AP) -- T...
      • Marina and Daniel enjoy some private time away fro...
      • We did a really, really, really long hike today. ...
      • The group ready to make the assault on the "French...
      • Approaching the glacier in fhe French Valley... 
      • Marina and Lenny wading in glacier water. 
      • Whew.We just returned from one heck of a hike. Th...
      • Our reliable wedding ring-boy, Daniel, from London...
      • If you’re ever thinking of getting married, make s...
      • David and Jessica's wedding begins with signing th...
      • We have completed our trilogy of weddings in lands...
      • The wedding ceremony, "Reb" Lenny officiating, und...
      • The traditional breaking of the glass 
      • The happy couple  
      • Yesterday, Wednesday, was not the best day in Pata...
      • A few days ago, me, and my mom and dad went to see...
      • A South American condor flying in front of the "To...
      • Jessie, Marina and Donna after their lunch on fres...
      • A guanaca trying to pretend he doesn't see us. 
      • December 22, 2004
      • Flat Stanley hiking in the Patagonian hills 
      • David and Jessica posing on the footbridge over a ...
      • The group shot 
      • On our hike to a view spot for the Torres del Pain...
      • Lenny and Donna enduring the spartan accomodations 
      • December 21 Tuesday
      • From Marina
      • Proof that even Donna got back on a horse. 
      • Marina and friend 
      • Horseback riding with a magnficent backdrop. 
      • Marina having lunch on a piece of an iceberg that ...
      • Crossing a hanging bridge on the way back from the...
      • The glacier up close. 
      • The destination of our first, day-long hike: "Gray...
      • Marina is very excited to have her own hotel room ...
      • The view from our hotel room window, with Flat Sta...
      • Finally... Explora! 
      • We also make an unscheduled stop... 
      • Explora is up in those mountains, somewhere. 
      • On the way to Explora, we stop for the penguins. 
      • Our hotel in Punta Arenas 
      • We have a freeloader aboard: "Flat Stanley" is in ...
      • Arriving at Explora
      • Punta Arenas
      • We made it!
      • The Great South America Trip
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