9 countries, 6 months, 
1 Sam*.

It is with mixed feelings that I must now face the prospect of returning to normality and board a flight back to Sydney. Mixed because...

It feels like short shrift to tag on these thoughts about Chile right as I am wrapping up this trip and this account of it. Especially so...

And so it was that my final couple of weeks on this grand trip through South America were spent exploring central Chile. Chile is a...

For completeness, I thought it important to jot down some reflections on Argentina even though we left her behind a couple of weeks ago....

How lucky I am to have friends who will travel half way around the world to join in on this craziness! And so it was that, just in time...

I had made a bet that of the one hundred and fifty odd passengers on our expedition to Antarctica, fewer than five would be younger than...

I know you all are expectantly checking this blog each and every day hoping for an update, so I feel it important to warn you - I will be...

Roughly a third of Argentinians live in or around Buenos Aires. But, much like in Australia, the Argentinian identity is romanticised...

Well, magnificent city. How has it been 40 years before our first meeting?! It is a travesty, though I have only myself to blame. I...

It may have been a brief visit, but it was certainly an enjoyable one. In a way, Uruguay felt like a homecoming, its laidback stretches...

After the wild ride of Brazil it was a welcome change of pace to land in South America's sleepy little seaside village, Uruguay. We were...

Well, what a surprise packet Brazil turned out to be! It was not at the top of the list of places I was most excited for, but at this...

You will rarely hear anyone enthuse over the continent's largest city. In fact, even people I've met on this trip that live in São Paulo...

The stretch of coast between Rio de Janeiro and Sāo Paulo is known as the La Costa Verde (the Green Coast). Little did I realise that...

The quest to discover all of Brazil's many facets continued in Rio, where the vibe was perhaps closer to what you would expect of a...

Brazil is a big player in South America. By both size and population it accounts for about half of the continent (and by caloric intake,...

Half a day's drive south from the geographical centre of the South American continent, Cuiaba, Brazil, lies the frontier of the world's...

I have always had an affinity for water. Be it at the beach, in the river, or by a pool, I am often to be found near it or in it. And I...

It is sad to be farewelling Bolivia so soon, but I am also very pleased to have descended from its thin and frigid mountain air on our...

Our tour of some of the driest, harshest and least sinus-forgiving destinations on the planet continued into the remote southern regions...