Book Review
I had three different people recommend the book, The Confession of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins.  It was incredibly well written and a compelling read. The book highlighted the work that Mr. Perkins did in the 70’s and 80’s in the field of international aid and development. 
He outlined the formula [...]

We woke up in our dorm room raring to finish the last part of our four-day hike in Patagonia.  The day’s hike was another short five-hour hike that would take us to Gray’s Glacier and back to our home base.  The rain was coming down hard so we decided to give it an hour to [...]

We woke up on the morning of March 17, a little bit sore from our 12-hour march from the day before.  We organized our packs and looked over the maps of where we needed to hike for the next day.  We had heard the second point of the “W” hike had been difficult to see [...]

We arrived after our seventeen-hour bus ride into the city of Puerto Natales.  It was the staging point for most hikes to Torres del Paine.  It was still a two-hour bus ride to the national park from there but it was the biggest city by far near the park.  From our friend, Nichola’s description the [...]

We got off the Antarctica boat a little bit before 7 am on the morning of March 12.  I said good-bye to the people who were heading off to the airport because Patrick and I decided to stay a night in Ushuaia-it ended up being two nights in the end.  We needed a break from [...]