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A VERY BRITISH CROSSING OF SOUTH AMERICA

After the challenges of the 9,000 miles crossing the USA in 2002 many more sensible people would have called it quits, but the need to plan the next adventure gets under your skin. I am not so sure about actually going on it though. This one does worry me.

What are we doing?

Good question. On October 26th my 1948 Healey Westland, accompanied by its descendants – an Austin Healey 100/4 and a 100/6 (both red of course) will be leaving Tilbury docks bound for Buenos Aires. We, (myself, Julian, Ivor, Alan and Chris) will be joining them, flying out on December 3rd. Hopefully customs will have cleared them and they will be safe with Miguel (a South American Healey owner) in Buenos Aires.

Then we are off, 6 weeks of driving down through Argentina: Buenos Aires, Mar del Plata, Bahia Blanca, Viedma, Puerto Madrin, Comodoro Riva Davia, Rio Gallegos, Rio Grande and Ushuaia. Cross into Chile: Punto Arenas and Puerto Natales. Back to Argentina: Esperanza, El Calafate, Punta Bandera, La Leona, Perito Moreno. Into Chile again: Cohihaique, Pt.Montt, Temuco, Santiago. Back to Argentina: Mendoza, Cordoba, Santa Fe. Into Paraguay: Asuncion, Foz do Iguacu. Then into Brazil: Frederico Westphalen, Passo Fundo, Caxias do Sul, Porto Allegre, Pelotas. To Uruguay: Montevideo, Colonia del Sacramento and finally back to Argentina: Buenos Aires for January 14th. Phew...

On the way we hope to see whales, penguins, seals, condors, lots of mountains, the Welsh Lake district, the wilds of the Patagonia region and hopefully no pumas what so ever.

Well, maybe we're just a little bit mad...

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Save The Children

In my last adventure, and this, I supported the Save the Children Fund. Unlinked to any political or religious bodies it only cares about children, so something with world wide appeal.

The Other Important Bit

Apparently, we'll be going around this continent in a vaguely clockwise direction:

South America
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