[...] the cat taken to the sitter’s house. We’re off in mere minutes for our long-awaited trip to Patagonia! Stories and pictures in the new [...]

[...] we agreed that she could choose any destination in the world for a celebratory trip, and she chose Patagonia. Our deal was that when I turned 40, which will happen this coming January, I could also choose any [...]

Dan: Yes – this post was from the end of 2004. Please see the link in one of my earlier comments to the series of articles I wrote about it.

Dan: Yes – this post was from the end of 2004. Please see the link in one of my earlier comments to the series of articles I wrote about it.

Have you gone and returned? We’re leaving in a week for Buenos Aires and, ultimately, Tierra del Fuego.

Have you gone and returned? We’re leaving in a week for Buenos Aires and, ultimately, Tierra del Fuego.

Marilyn:

Thanks very much for your comments. I did indeed write about a Welsh settlement in Patagonia: Gaiman, which I found very interesting. Also, Morgen has written a few articles about Wales: Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, Hay-on-Wye, and Portmeirion. We’ve never been to Wales, but it sounds fascinating. I certainly hope we get the opportunity to visit one day.

Joe

Marilyn:

Thanks very much for your comments. I did indeed write about a Welsh settlement in Patagonia: Gaiman, which I found very interesting. Also, Morgen has written a few articles about Wales: Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, Hay-on-Wye, and Portmeirion. We’ve never been to Wales, but it sounds fascinating. I certainly hope we get the opportunity to visit one day.

Joe

Hi Joe

I was just reading about your adventures. First I would say, NEVER put off anything, however much it costs, you never know what’s round the corner. My brother died a couple of weeks ago and he had a burning ambition to visit India for the spiritual experience but he never got there.

Anyway, back to Patagonia, I have for the past three and a half years been living in Wales UK and am now an English ex pat!

Yesterday I walked into a shop in Ystradgynlais (I know, it’s unpronouncable) and this shop had been turned into a gallery where anyone could display any form of artwork. The people running it were so friendly and there was a book on display. I had heard a long, long time ago about the Welsh speaking people in Patagonia. It turned out that this book was about the people who originally went from Wales and settled in Patagonia. The gentleman who runs the gallery is an ancestor of the settlers and he had written the book as an account of their adventure. Opposite the gallery is, in fact, a small cafe called the Mimosa. This cafe was named after the boat that the settlers sailed in.

By the way, not having read all of your account yet, I wondered whether you met any Welsh decendants during your trip.

I also wonder whether you have ever been or considered going to Wales. It is beautiful and so undiscovered by most of the tourist contingency. There are places where you can just go a sit and contemplate and not see a soul. The scenery is breathtaking. The way of life is so much calmer than in England. With your wife’s name being Morgen (which is a Welsh name) I wondered if maybe she has Welsh ancestry and therefore a trip here would be on the cards. I strongly recommend it but please don’t tell everyone about Wales because it is so unspoilt at the moment, if you get my drift! (Gosh, I must sound like I work for the Welsh Tourist Board, I DON’T!)

So let me know if you decide to visit. It could be your next adventure into the unknown! – although not quite so remote.

For your interest, the book, which I haven’t read yet as I only bought it yesterday, is called “The Watkin Path to Patagonia” by Huw Watkin Williams.

Regards Marilyn

Hi Joe

I was just reading about your adventures. First I would say, NEVER put off anything, however much it costs, you never know what’s round the corner. My brother died a couple of weeks ago and he had a burning ambition to visit India for the spiritual experience but he never got there.

Anyway, back to Patagonia, I have for the past three and a half years been living in Wales UK and am now an English ex pat!

Yesterday I walked into a shop in Ystradgynlais (I know, it’s unpronouncable) and this shop had been turned into a gallery where anyone could display any form of artwork. The people running it were so friendly and there was a book on display. I had heard a long, long time ago about the Welsh speaking people in Patagonia. It turned out that this book was about the people who originally went from Wales and settled in Patagonia. The gentleman who runs the gallery is an ancestor of the settlers and he had written the book as an account of their adventure. Opposite the gallery is, in fact, a small cafe called the Mimosa. This cafe was named after the boat that the settlers sailed in.

By the way, not having read all of your account yet, I wondered whether you met any Welsh decendants during your trip.

I also wonder whether you have ever been or considered going to Wales. It is beautiful and so undiscovered by most of the tourist contingency. There are places where you can just go a sit and contemplate and not see a soul. The scenery is breathtaking. The way of life is so much calmer than in England. With your wife’s name being Morgen (which is a Welsh name) I wondered if maybe she has Welsh ancestry and therefore a trip here would be on the cards. I strongly recommend it but please don’t tell everyone about Wales because it is so unspoilt at the moment, if you get my drift! (Gosh, I must sound like I work for the Welsh Tourist Board, I DON’T!)

So let me know if you decide to visit. It could be your next adventure into the unknown! – although not quite so remote.

For your interest, the book, which I haven’t read yet as I only bought it yesterday, is called “The Watkin Path to Patagonia” by Huw Watkin Williams.

Regards Marilyn

Fiona: Yes, our trip to Patagonia was wonderful, and extremely memorable. I wrote a series of articles about it, which you can read here:

http://itotd.com/tags/Patagonia

Cheers,

Joe

Fiona: Yes, our trip to Patagonia was wonderful, and extremely memorable. I wrote a series of articles about it, which you can read here:

http://itotd.com/tags/Patagonia

Cheers,

Joe

Last night (04-08-07) I had a dream in which Patagonia was the central feature. Unlike you expectation that everyone has seen “Princess Bride”, I have not, so the name “Patagonia” was not one I would have associated with a movie.

So, since I did not even know where Patagonia was, I did a web search this morning discovered you Adventure plans. Being an Adventurer myself, I couldn’t help but leave a note from my visit. It has been a number of years since your trip to “the place of dreams” and I hope it was the source of many other dreams yet to find their way into reality.

~Fiona~

Last night (04-08-07) I had a dream in which Patagonia was the central feature. Unlike you expectation that everyone has seen “Princess Bride”, I have not, so the name “Patagonia” was not one I would have associated with a movie.

So, since I did not even know where Patagonia was, I did a web search this morning discovered you Adventure plans. Being an Adventurer myself, I couldn’t help but leave a note from my visit. It has been a number of years since your trip to “the place of dreams” and I hope it was the source of many other dreams yet to find their way into reality.

~Fiona~

[...] Two years ago, when Morgen turned 30, we agreed that she could choose any destination in the world for a celebratory trip, and she chose Patagonia. Our deal was that when I turned 40, which will happen this coming January, I could also choose any travel destination. I spent months thinking about this, poring over atlases and thinking seriously about dozens of countries on every continent. (Yes, even Antarctica.) In the end, I settled on Indonesia, so that’s where we’ll be spending most of January (along with a 5-day stopover in Hong Kong). [...]

Gaston: We had a fantastic visit. I’ve already written a week’s worth of articles on Patagonia for Interesting Thing of the Day (In Patagonia), and there will be another week later in February. In addition, I hope to write some blog entries here about experiences that don’t really fit into ITotD.

Gaston: We had a fantastic visit. I’ve already written a week’s worth of articles on Patagonia for Interesting Thing of the Day (In Patagonia), and there will be another week later in February. In addition, I hope to write some blog entries here about experiences that don’t really fit into ITotD.

Well, I hope you enjoy your trip.

I am webmaster of a site about patagonia but I also live here and travel a lot. I just got back from a wonderfull train ride that took me from the sea to the mountains. Not only that but I did it with the woman I love to have arround so it couldn´t be better.

I plan to come back to read about your experience.

Sincerely

Gaston

Well, I hope you enjoy your trip.

I am webmaster of a site about patagonia but I also live here and travel a lot. I just got back from a wonderfull train ride that took me from the sea to the mountains. Not only that but I did it with the woman I love to have arround so it couldn´t be better.

I plan to come back to read about your experience.

Sincerely

Gaston

Sounds wonderful. We look forward to seeing you on your return. (I’m curious to watch how you maintain itotd while you’re traveling.) Are you taking suggestions for your fortieth? I know of a place where forty days/years makes interesting metaphoric sense.