Posts Tagged ‘Andes’

Torres del Paine, Chile

After a couple of days admiring Chile’s Torres del Paine National Park from my rental car, it occurred to me that, with the sole exception of my left arm, I was no more tan than when I departed Sea-Tac airport. I was in the land of fresh air, sunshine and precariously low ozone levels and […]


Torres del Paine, Chile

It’s always an odd thing to finally landed in a place that you’ve dreamed of visiting for years. Like Yosemite or the Grand Canyon, Chile’s Torres del Paine stands as one of the world’s singular destinations. I’ve long admired and coveted images of Patagonia’s windswept mountains, and as I drove into the park after flying […]