To commemorate the company's 30th birthday, in the late summer of 2010 Brian Willams (who was there at the start) and I are planning to run a couple of Escorted Group trips in "the old style".
That actually meant, in the old days, trips with a very minimum of advance planning, so clearly doing any preparation work done now in August 2009 already belies the concept...
Brian will be doing Welsh Patagonia, travelling westwards to cross the Andes near Trevelin into Chile and the Carretera Austral - the great southern highway. Construction of this road started just a few years before Journey Latin America was created. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carretera_Austral. Brian speaks Spanish and is a native Welsh speaker.
I'll be following a linear route through Venezuela's Gran Sabana to northern Brazil, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, and back into Brazil. What roads there were in these parts in the early 1980s were compacted red-earth and certainly not all-weather. Things have improved since then, but there's a good a few ferries across the larger jungle rivers. I don't speak any Dutch, but I'm reasonably competent in the other four languages.
As the research develops into a plan, and the plan into an itinerary, I'll post updates - there may be a a few abandoned backwaters along the way, as my wish-list gets trodden on by practicality. CP
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