Along the Gringo Trail
Along the Gringo Trail. A retrospective on South America Due to a family wedding in May, and the arrival of my daughter and partner from Berlin my blogging has stalled somewhat and I was a bit lost for what to write next. The volcanic eruptions in Guatemala this week reminded me of the time I spent in that wonderful country on 2 trips there in 1980, when heading south and then back north many months later. For the first time in my life I climbed an “extinct” volcano and for a while wondered if it was the same volcano wreaking death and destruction. The tragic TV footage made much look all too familiar and set me off on this blog of South America and my travels there. Living the life of an expatriate was at the forefront of my mind in my late 20s and early 30s. My first foray abroad, other than my regimented year in Vietnam as a soldier, came in my second year after graduating and not long after The Dismissal of the Whitlam government on Remembrance Day in November 1975,...