The Beginning « The Long Way Up

I wanted to describe the glaciers to you, the wild nature and the southern part of South America. I wanted to tell you about the engine support breaking down in the middle of nowhere, having to find a solution to get to the next town. I wanted to introduce you to another awesome person that we randomly met and helped us incredibly fixing this and more problems with Betsy. But I will let you guess the story from the pictures at the end of the post.

Because today it feels a bit different.

After a fantastic month together, Giorgia, Lorenzo and little Olivia left us to go back to northern Argentina and then Italy, and we have now realised that this is actually happening, and that the trip is starting. Together with some sadness seeing some of my very best friend leaving, the realisation that what we are doing is real, arrived. We knew that we would have had some tough moments in our trip, and to be honest on one side we already experimented more than we expected, but on the other we know that there is more that has yet to come. But you’re never ready for that moment that finds you unprepared, and forces you to move forward and concentrate on the next move. Or the next shot.

We are in Ushuaia at the moment, the southern most city in South America, ready to face the beginning of the journey. After five weeks of travel the awareness that we can make it is growing on us, together with the conviction that what we shot up until now is closer to a “touristic” point of view than documentary and we both know that we want to go deeper into the culture and experiment more, whenever that means to be bolder or create situations that allow us to focus more and exploit this wonderful opportunity at its best.