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...continued from Rounding the Corner, December 14. La Paz and el Camino de la Muerte With the census day in Bolivia I’d had to plan things pretty tight to do both the salt flats and Death Road. That meant taking the overnight bus from Uyuni back to La Paz, scheduled to arrive at 06:30 “or …
Lima I touched down in Lima, Peru on November 15, 2012, 32 days before re-entering the United States. If South America was the final stretch, this was rounding the corner to the finish line. Arriving at the airport I figured out how to take the local microbus, line-S into town. This was a fun experience. …
Trusted reader, you’ve followed my journey this far. And now you ask, what is in store for Chris Healy from this point forward? I’m leaving Chile today. Whoops, I started writing this post six weeks ago. I’ll be in Mendoza, Argentina for one week. It’s a city just on the eastern edge of the Andes, …
Buenos Aires Back in Buenos Aires my friend Jennifer from California came to visit and travel with me for about ten days. We decided to meet in Buenos Aires and make a trip to Iguazú Falls, which would be her first time out of the United States; we were both pretty stoked about the trip. …
Flying from Mendoza to Buenos Aires involved a four-hour delay at an airport with no VIP lounge, relegating me into the nameless rabble of novice travelers. Combined with the check-in staff trying to insist on checking my backpack I was feeling a bit crabby, but I brightened up a bit after meeting a fellow Fresno …
More often traveled by a 6-hour bus ride through the Andes, I flew the 40 minutes from Santiago to Mendoza, Argentina on my RTW ticket. Despite being such a short flight and not necessarily a “high-value” ticket (although still a $500 cash purchase), I was compelled to include this segment due to routing options and …
I’ve been a quiet since leaving Brazil, but I want to catch everyone up on the adventures around the world. Leaving Rio and the mystifying Portuguese language I traversed over South America, from the Brazilian Atlantic Coast to the Pacific Coast of Chile, and the at least more familiar Spanish language. On my flight from …
Brazil is a special place. I’ve only been to Rio de Janeiro, but even so I can say that with confidence. After eight months, 22 countries and five continents, I landed in Rio following an eight-hour flight from London on Wednesday, September 19, 2012. Not knowing many folks in Brazil I went couchsurfing all the …
Now eight months into this journey, I’ve started doing a good deal of reflection: what has happened so far, where I’ve been and what it’s meant to me - and will mean to me in the future; what I’ve learned and how it’s changed me. I remember meeting people in Auckland, telling them I’m three …
Before leaving the United States I decided that “Connection” would be one of the core values of my adventure around the world. It has been. Back in March I wrote a recap on all the people I’d connected with on the journey by that time. I’m going to do that again now, and this is …
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