Anglers Journal

Beyond the Comfort Zone

he night before my arrival in Chile was restless. A collection of nerves and a contracted case of airport plague kept me awake for all 30 hours of travel. The drive into the was more dramatic than expected. The company of a Montanan friend, and an empanada eased my tensions while driving deeper into the Patagonian expanse. The world I’d known evaporated at every gravel turn on the back roads. The landscape felt colossal.

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