As informed readers are aware, I was recently appointed Foreign Correspondent for Gourmay. While pleased with this promotion, I was disappointed to learn that Gourmay’s travel budget had been slashed to zero as part of an ongoing austerity program. As such, my travel correspondence will be limited to living vicariously through the travels of those more fortunate (to use a popular political phrase, let’s call them the 1%).
Red Bull Amy Reads a Map
In that vein, I am pleased to share a few lovely photographs of Red Bull Amy’s recent trip to Argentina. Following in the footsteps of the great Captain FitzRoy of HMS Beagle fame, Amy and Wendy did more than sit on the deck of a cruise ship and sip tea watching the El Calafate glacier fall into the lake (or did they?)
Found below are a few more remarkable photographs of Red Bull Amy’s trip to Patagonia, but it is worthwhile to point out Amy was following in the footsteps of Charles Darwin (1834) and the often maligned Captain FitzRoy, who as informed readers or Gourmay are aware was a figure no less important than Darwin and, in my humble estimation, his intellectual equal. Fitzroy’s remarkable story – and his stunning conversations with Darwin – are beautifully recreated in Harry Thompson’s 2005 historical novel, This Thing Called Darkness. Unfortunately, Thompson died the year his book was published.
For those who have never visited Southern Argentina (and Chile), I am pleased to share Amy’s lovely photographs:
On the Road in the Andes
All you can say is Wow!
Rock Climbing Anyone?
Amy reports that she hooked up with Langston “Great White Hunter” Turner in Buenos Aires who was decimating the dove population on the Pampas. Gourmay will have more on their visit to Buenos Aires in a later post.
Well done Amy, and thank you for sharing these photos with Gourmay.
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