Full Circle with Michael Palin

This is a BBC travel series from the late 90s that I recently netflixed, after seeing a couple of episodes back in the day. It's pretty darn cool. He starts on an island in the Aleutian chain, goes down Asia, through Oz and N.Z., over to Tierra del Fuego, and all the way up the Americas to that isle at the edge of the Bering Strait. Took 245 days. The DVDs are great, but there's also a BBC website that covers Palin's version of the trip (diary entries, photos), and also the still photographer's vision (photos). The Chile part was great, including a neat stay on Chiloe. The Atacama portion of the trip was epic, I really want to go there. There are roads that are at 15000' feet. The el Tatio geyser field looks amazing. In Mexico City he saw some Lucha Libre wrestling which was great. He visited a subsistence farm in the countryside and had an experience somewhat analogous to Amy's. In TJ they spent quite a bit of time on the wall there/illegal immigration (read all of day 226). Anyway, some of the Asia stuff was interesting, the boat trip down a tributary of the Amazon was cool, and tooling up Big Sur in a convertible Morgan was nice as well. {If you've clicked on the links and been semi-unimpressed (aside from Amy's post), note that the tv show is more interesting than the website}.

Here are some images I got off of the websites:

Valley of the Moon, near San Pedro de Atacama

Atacama Dreamscape

Train from Arica, Chile to La Paz, Bolivia. Love the rails.

'Super Barrio' in Mexico City