southamerica
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Ostrander Hut, Yosemite
A visit to Ostrander Hut in Yosemite. Beautiful winter wonderland trek on skis.
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Motorcycle trip through CA, Oregon and to Wyoming
This was a big trip for me. I took the time to sign up for a motorcycle class to learn how to ride one properly and to get my license. This was a few months before our wedding with Laura. An opportunity for this trip presented itself when Laura’s family decided to have a family…
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Quote by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
‘If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.’
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Back from Torres del Paine – Hiking the Circuit + “W” in 5 days
So, I went to Torres del Paine thinking i’ll do the “W” and maybe, just maybe i’ll do the “circuito”, which normally takes 8 days. I ended up finishing the full circuito + w in 5 days (including today) and feel fantastic, going through the 2nd liter of chocolate milk now, thus granting myself this…
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Villa O’Higgins. End of Carretera Austral. On to Arrrgentina.
Yesterday arrived in time to Villa O’Higgins’ Fiesta Costumbrista – a village festival where gauchos were chasing and taming horses. Kind of a strange tradition. Then had some delicious goat meat. At night we danced with the locals. This is the end of Carretera Austral. Tomorrow I am taking a ferry across Lago O’Higgins to Candelaria…
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Road to Rahul Marin Balmaceda and Cagalandia
The road to Cagalandia from Puerto Montt to Rahul Marin (by the way the name has a pretty cool story, even though if you speak spanish you know the root of the word is a bit offensive)
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Back to civilization
I’m back alive and refreshed. On Feb 10th I left Cagalandia, a remote and beautiful land of Thomas Verster near Raul Marin Balmaceda in northern Patagonia. Adios Cagalandia! I spent 2 weeks there with another volunteer (Bjorn from Holland who is going to stay there for a while to help Thomas build a house) and…
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Into the wild for the next few weeks
Today I’m heading out to a beautiful area just south of Parque Corcovado (as seen in the movie 180 Degrees South – which is an amazing film if you haven’t seen it). So for the next few weeks i’ll be in a very remote area volunteering (more details here: www.chileadventure.50megs.com and another volunteer’s pictures here).…
Karolis Karalevicius 