Year: 2015
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![Mount Fitz Roy, Argentina, the final destination! [49/50]](https://www.craigbellamy.net/images//img_8676-1.jpg)
Mount Fitz Roy, Argentina, the final destination! [49/50]
After one year of traveling, it was good to arrive at Mount Fitz Roy, the final destination of this thirteen nation adventure. A year is a long time to travel and those that tell you that the years get shorter as you get older, possibly need to get out of the house more often (i.e.,…
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![Walking the ‘W’ Trek, Torres del Paine, Chilean Patagonia [48/50]](https://www.craigbellamy.net/images//wpid-img_83801.jpg)
Walking the ‘W’ Trek, Torres del Paine, Chilean Patagonia [48/50]
Chile has a magnificent four thousand kilometers long coastline (and is less than two hundred kilometers wide in places), but similar to the other uber-urbanised countries of Canada and Australia, most of the population is crammed into either one or two vacuum-cleaned dormitory cities with itsy-bitsy people trying to stuff the whole world (and all…
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![A Llama in Santiago [47/50]](https://www.craigbellamy.net/images//wpid-img_7832.jpg)
A Llama in Santiago [47/50]
After many months in the Andes exploring Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Colombia, Santiago seemed a bit too much like home. A beautiful place to live but you wouldn’t want to travel there! It is a combination of American and socialist utilitarian modernism (same-same) that is almost impossible to distinguish from any other prosperous new-world city…
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![Walking Valparaiso, Chile, the graffiti capital of the world! [46/50]](https://www.craigbellamy.net/images//wpid-best-cities-to-see-street-art-20-1.jpg)
Walking Valparaiso, Chile, the graffiti capital of the world! [46/50]
I recall an interview a few years ago with a well-known architect from the suburb of Fitzroy in Melbourne, Australia on a radio station in Venice, Italy from the Australian pavilion at the Venice Biennale (Fitzroy is where I started this journey, and soon it will end at Fitz Roy Mountain in Argentina). In certain…
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![The Chilean Atacama Desert, let a hundred flowers blossom [45/50]](https://www.craigbellamy.net/images//wpid-img_6963.jpg)
The Chilean Atacama Desert, let a hundred flowers blossom [45/50]
The trip from Uyuni in Bolivia to San Pedro de Atacama in Chile was one of the more adventurous segments of the whole journey as the road was rough and unpaved, through remote Andean towns, past smoking volcanoes and over desolate, barren and lonely landscapes. This would be the last ride on the moto as…
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![The Bolivian South West, no country for young men [44/50]](https://www.craigbellamy.net/images//wpid-img_6906.jpg)
The Bolivian South West, no country for young men [44/50]
The Bolivian South West is a expansive and rugged, resilient and optimistic synthesis of unique topologies, an amalgam of past eruptions and new dirt, of accumulated wisdom with new landscapes with few circumscribed references to the stuff of industrial Modernity. It is no country for young men (only Arthur Miller). After returning from the Uyuni…