My good luck charms for a smooth journey are a pearl (for wisdom), raw beauty (for health), artist’s palette (from Myra, to remind me to be creative when facing issues), a bear (from Canada, for strength…or maybe knowing when to hibernate!) and St. Christopher, from Mel. XOXO
Bec
Previous lives include graphic designer, trainee chef and favourite child. These days I'm living each day as it comes...otherwise known as giving up my good job, giving up my house to tenants, giving up a lot of material possessions and even giving up my cat. The future includes traveling to South America, Canada, the US and Central America to work out where next...
last suppers
/ 30/11/2012Ushuaia Maritime and Prison Museum Spent some time at the Museo Maritimo y del Presidio de Ushuaia – The prison at the end of the world, now an interesting museum of Ushuaian life and maritime history. The first male prisoners started arriving in 1896 and in general most convicts were…
even though Havanna Club is only $18/ltr…
/ 29/11/2012…I couldn’t get through a whole bottle in the two days I have here, drinking alone it just seems a waste. So I’m sipping my way through a hip flask of pisco and making picola instead…pisco and cola! Just tastes like straight coke but goes straight to my head!
even the animal world can have rogue kings
/ 29/11/2012Following the trend, I regrouped with two couples at the port who were on yesterday’s trekking and rafting excursion for today’s engagement with the animal kingdom. Harberton Ranch was founded in the 1880’s by Tomas Bridges, an anglican minister/language recordist/rancher responsible for an interesting and involved slice of history that…
feeling on top at the bottom of the world
/ 29/11/2012I can remember learning how to say “Tierra del Fuego” when I had an assignment to research the Portuguese explorer, Ferdinand Magellan in primary school. Fuego means fire and the way it rolls off the tongue reminds me of the gentle fanning of flames you breathe into a new camp…