I have had a number of email nudges, asking whether I’m still in Brazil and why I haven’t posted an update. I returned about 10 days ago, but my batteries were truly drained, and it has taken me until the last day or so to feel recharged enough to write this.I’m sure many of you…

Arrived in São Paulo yesterday afternoon after driving and flying from our last camp in the Pantanal. Rob and I had a quiet drink and dinner at the Marriott near the airport last night and then we said our goodbyes after a pretty intense 3 weeks of travel. This is the third trip of its…

I write this on the way to our most looked-for destination, Porto Jofre, the heart, the epicentre of Pantanal jaguar country. Time is short to put this post up before we lose the little internet presence that has been available to us recently…

Following the events chronicled by Rob in the previous post, we spent the last 3 days in Asuncion, the capital city of Paraguay. From my readings and research prior to this trip I had expected to meet a city with a film noir vibe, an undertone of barely-veiled violence, shot in slightly grainy black and…

In a first for my journal I have asked my friend and fellow-traveller Rob to guest-post an article on the ‘bizarre social experiment’ that I talked about in an earlier post as one of the rationales for this adventure. Since this ‘new socialist utopia’ was created and peopled by a group of intrepid Australians it…

As I’m sure you will have gathered, our driving direction for this trip is roughly due north for its whole extent. We began at Colonia on the southern border of Uruguay after our ferry ride and drove 7 hours north to Posada El Proyecto where we spent our first two nights on the road, as…

A quick update between internet blackouts and long driving days. Arrived without incident in BA on Saturday afternoon at 1500 after a 16 hour transit time with no jet-lag, the blessing of being only one time zone east of Toronto. Met by Hugh, the owner of Macdermotts Argentina who will be our guide and driver…

This time around our merry band of travellers, Robert, Hugh and self who you previously met in Patagonia and on the Carretera Austral in Chile, are off again on what should prove to be our most ambitious adventure yet attempted. We will be driving from Buenos Aires to Cuibaba in the Brazilian Pantanal, over the…