We rose early today and drove north across town towards the Punta Arenas ferry terminal.  There we had a date with the Transbordadora Austral Broom “Crux Australis” to sail across the Strait of Magellan to Tierra del Fuego and the town of Porvenir.  We’d been staring at Tierra del Fuego from the shores of Punta [...]

I was bit by a horse at summer camp when I was a kid.  It was the last week of summer and all the horses were pretty ornery from having kids climbing all over them the past 3 months.  I’d spent most of my week at camp shooting bows and arrows, carving my spork, learning [...]