From north, TO SOUTH

For life at the polar opposite, there's an amazing number of similarities!

Southern Patagonia is everything I imagined and more... rugged and rustic, quaint and friendly, vast and breathtaking.

Kind of like Alaska.

Right now I'm in Puerto Natales, Chile. I'm spending a couple of nights here before beginning an eight day trek through Torres Del Paine National Park. The trek should be spectacular, filled with spires, glaciers, lakes and mountains passes. It also might be filled with people as the trek I'm doing is a popular one. Hopefully it won't be too smothered though.

No matter what, after three long days on a bus, I'm excited to get back out hiking! I met a really awesome chica from Montana named Bree who I'm going to do the trek with. We get along well and she seems like the perfect person to be in the backcountry with. Once again, things are falling into place better than if I had tried to make a plan.

That's one thing that traveling teaches you: To trust that good things and situations will always work out!

Well, I just wanted to send love, hellos and happiness from the tip of South America.

Photos coming soon... okay in eight plus days... but soon... as soon as I get back!

Penguin hugs,
Amy