(“He’s climbin in your windows, he’s snatchin your people up….”)

We will be travelling for one year from the very bottom of Chile all the way up until Canada, just with a van, our gear and some underwear. This blog will be the place where we’re gonna share our photographs, videos, thoughts and experiences.

Join us for a documentary of Latin and North American culture, people and landscapes!

Hola amigos! And welcome to the very first entry of The Long Way Up travel blog. I’m Adele and the key person on this awesome adventure! I will be bringing along my very own cameraman who will be following ‘me’ around like a massive stalker! Carlo my jolly feller. His life mission is to become bolder than bad Santa and cooler than The Big Lebowski! His mission for the next year however, will be creating a kick-ass documentary, capturing the very essence of South America and life living on the road.

Bring on the sun, pool side cocktails… naked Spanish waita minute?! That would be a holiday not an expedition!

We intend to document with video and photography the people, cultures, lifestyle, food, fashion and spectacular landscapes of South America, off the beaten track..

My life is pretty much packed into one suitcase, strange how you can accumulate so much sh*t over the years but when it really comes down to it you really only need a suite case full of things. In Carlo’s case, his main luggage will be gear, gear and more gear! He prefers camera gadgets and gizmos to actual clothing! His hero nickname: SuperGeek!

We will lug our 45kgs each to Sydney airport on November 15th 2010 and will arrive in Santiago, Chile the same day.  Here, we will spend 20days in a hostel to find the van. Keeping all fingers and toes crossed for the more roomy VW Camper Van like the Westfalia! This little baby will sleep, feed and carry our butts on the grand tour across Argentina down to the very southernmost part of South America, Patagonia, she’ll then venture right up the west coast into Central America and on to the US.

Final destination looking to be Vancouver!

As I understand it, 17 countries in all!

Excited much??!!