Kyle arrived at Logan airport this morning on a red-eye flight from California at about 5:30AM. He tried to catch some sleep before boarding a second red-eye flight with me bound for Puntas Arenas, Chile by way of Miami and Santiago. By the time our travel is completed, Kyle will have been in transit for more than 36 hours straight with a bonus 5 hour time shift thrown in for good measure.

So begins our father-son travel adventure to Patagonia. Chile is roughly as long (2,880 miles) as the United States is wide but only 265 miles at its widest. This extremely narrow country is bordered by the Pacific Ocean and the Andes mountain range. Its length is dotted with volcanoes, two of which can be seen in the photo below taken from the plane on our flight from the capital of Santiago to Puntas Arenas, one of the country’s southernmost cities.

Posts for the next two weeks were added after our return from South America at which time we learned that the Copahue Volcano, located in the immediate vicinity of this photo had been showing seismic activity and venting a mile high ash plume.