Hi welcome to Mt. Fitz Roy!
It's beautiful. It's so beautiful. You are going to love it.
Have you ever wondered what your dream adventure looks like in real life?
After years of waiting for a trip to Patagonia,
there were a few things I didn't quite plan for.
uhhh here we are in Patagonia It's ahhh light winds, light breeze off the lake.
My friends and I quickly learned the true
power of a headwind and discovered the deep pain of a head wound.
We lost days in the rain.
It raining forever.
We had plans to go see the sunrise of Fitz Roy.
It's been raining 6-7 hours.
We got sick.
We went broke.
We don't have any cash.
We sat for hours in crammed planes and on bumpy roads.
And we took a boat that never came back to pick us up.
So the boat is not going to be fixed today.
We hike 5 hours to the administration building.
Someone didn't bring their seizure pills.
While this is going to suck... and then just keep going down here.
My plan never included this many roadblocks
but maybe the only difference between roadblock
and adventure was my perspective.
I left my home in search of breathtaking landscapes from a viewpoint.
But I think the real beauty of travel is that the land shapes us and we come back with an
entirely new point of view.
Slowly, I discovered nature was all the more beautiful
because of the unplanned and the unexpected.
It is the interruption of the desolate flats that make the towering cliffs so majestic.
It's the carving of peaceful valleys that make the walls of ice so powerful.
Beauty is found in the rushing of the water and the shifting of the skies.
and the surprise of the sun disrupting the night and painting the granite red.
What if even our obstacles were just waiting to transform?
Was the wind just wanting to play?
Was the rain beckoning us to rest?
Was the bumpy road calling us on our journey?
Was the missing boat ordering us on a mission?
My real life adventure was full of beautiful sunrises and surprising setbacks
and each made the trip all the more wonderful.
We waited long and hard for you Fitz Roy.
You can't hide forever.
I guess life is like that,
full of setbacks and roadblocks.
So hard.
This is so worth it though.
But when we love something enough we can turn any obstacle into an odyssey.
The truth is life isn't going to go as planned.
The only question is "Will you choose to call it adventure?"