• Photos: Travels from Fitzroy to Fitz Roy 2015

    Photos: Travels from Fitzroy to Fitz Roy 2015

    I have placed all the photos I took during my travels in 2015 on Flickr. They are simply categorised in order of the countries that I visited but over coming months, I will add descriptions of the places they were taken and other ‘meta-data’. If you are curious about something, please do ask and I…

  • Collect GPS Co-ordinates, not things [50/50]

    Collect GPS Co-ordinates, not things [50/50]

    The transition back into Melbournian and Australian life after a long hiatus is exhilarating. It is a time of renovation with renewed acumen, of putting new-found perspectives and confidences to the fore and weaving new paths through Modern life that all too often celebrates and rewards the regularity and predictability of well-managed lives versus the…

  • Mount Fitz Roy, Argentina, the final destination! [49/50]

    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.,…

  • Walking the ‘W’ Trek, Torres del Paine, Chilean Patagonia [48/50]

    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…

  • A Llama in Santiago [47/50]

    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…

  • Walking Valparaiso, Chile, the graffiti capital of the world! [46/50]

    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…