https://calderescapes.com The Calder's Global Travels Sun, 04 Sep 2022 15:15:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://calderescapes.com/wpcms/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-ce-site-icon-32x32.png https://calderescapes.com 32 32 https://calderescapes.com/posts/the-end-of-the-world-chi/ Sat, 26 Jan 2019 21:32:15 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=30231   January 26thth, 2019 We arrived at the Chilean border entry post and in less than twenty minutes we had our new visas (complete with stamps this time) and the TIP and made our way to the small city of Puerto Natales: gateway to Torres del Paine National Park (“TDP”) at latitude of slightly below […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/the-carretera-austral-chi/ Fri, 04 Jan 2019 17:02:50 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=29855   January 4th, 2019 After our little screw up regarding the route, we continued through Puerto Montt along the coast – there was a sea wall and it was very reminiscent of Vancouver.  We had not visited this side of the city previously. Once you leave downtown Puerto Montt you are on the Ruta 7 […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/lakes-district-chiloe-chi/ Wed, 26 Dec 2018 19:10:09 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=29672   December 26th, 2018 After too many hours on flights from Buffalo to Detroit to Atlanta to Santiago, we actually landed early, got a taxi and returned “home” to Tigger at Camper Travel, where we had arranged to have them install the new gasket for our toilet (it has been leaking for months so no water […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/short-christmas-trip-chi/ Thu, 13 Dec 2018 20:12:38 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=29641 December 13th, 2018 We left Camper Travel north of Santiago for the airport at 5:30 pm after a small Uber fiasco and our flight to Buffalo via Atlanta was smooth and pretty much on time and no luggage was lost. We arrived at 10:30 am on the 14th and took another Uber to where our […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/easter-island-chi/ Tue, 04 Dec 2018 21:16:01 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=29439 December 4th, 2018 We landed on Easter Island this fine Tuesday, nearly 4000 km / 2500 mi from Santiago.  We were not sure if our hotel included airport pick up and after surveying the signs in the arrivals area, figured it didn’t but the hotel was only 1.5 km away so we opted to walk […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/back-in-santiago-chi/ Mon, 26 Nov 2018 17:15:54 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=29379   November 26th, 2018 After spending the night at the Copec station in Saladillo just inside Chile, we made our way to the Jumbo grocery store in Los Andes about 40 km / 25 m west and stocked up as we were pretty much bare bones in order to cross the border.  Doug went to […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/this-time-we-are-going-to-argentina-ch/ Wed, 17 Oct 2018 14:20:29 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=28756   October 17th, 2018 We left the cloudy beach of La Serena early enough to hit a grocery store and gas before making our way eastward to the small town of Vicuña on the Ruta de las Estrellas – the route of the stars.  Vicuña is world renown for star gazing and observatories; there are […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/almost-to-argentina-back-ch/ Sun, 07 Oct 2018 20:59:47 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=28604   October 7th, 2018 We left Bahia Inglesa after some yoga and walking and made the short drive to the large city of Copiapó where we had a couple of stops in mind and it was the last opportunity for gas if you are heading east towards the Argentinian border (we are not going into […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/continuing-south-on-the-north-coast-ch/ Wed, 03 Oct 2018 12:32:00 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=28552   October 3rdth, 2018 We left Iquique and began the approximately 400 km south along the Ruta 1 – coastal highway to Antofagasta – the largest city in northern Chile and a major port.  The Ruta 1 was in good shape and with two stops we made it by early afternoon. One of the stops […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/on-to-the-pacific-coast-ch/ Mon, 24 Sep 2018 13:45:05 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=28358   September 24th, 2018 About 10km after we left San Pedro de Atacama, Tigger sputtered and didn’t have much power AGAIN!  We have to believe it’s the Bolivian gas as pretty much everything else has been ruled out.  We made it up the one long hill and then it was fine but still no power […]]]>