I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo.

Amateur Traveler episode 720. Today the amateur traveler talks about glacial lakes and hanging glaciers, hikes and marble caves, Guanaco and Puma,

as we drive the Caratarra-Australian in southern Chile.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Let's talk about Southern Chile. I'd like to welcome back to the show Steph Dyson who is a travel journalist, a guidebook

author most recently the Moon Guide to Chile and a travel blogger at worldly adventurer.com.

Steph, welcome back to the show.

Thanks for having me, Chris. I'm excited to be back again.

Well, there's some truth in that. I should say when I say welcome back to the show

Steph has been on the show before and you have heard her talking about Northern

Chile a number of episodes ago I want to say five years ago.

Yeah I think that's correct.

Just before you started working on a guidebook?

Just before yes.

So this is kind of rounding out that experience because the Moon Guy to Chile just

published and that was quite a long amount of time working on this guidebook but

also Steph was on the show a week ago and something

went terribly wrong and it did not record. So I appreciate your patience, but I also appreciate

your expertise on Chile.

When we talk about Chile this time we're talking about and I'm going to try and pronounce it,

the Caratarra-Astral, the Southern Highway.

That was good pronunciation.

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