Thanks to all these wonderful people who kindly provided us with lots of information by phone, email or face to face prior to the trip: Maxime Grosjean, farrier in Normandy, Sally Fenner for sharing her precious knowledge of horsemanship, and everything about horses and adventure, Sabine Fauquet, Isabelle Bordet,  Christian Winkelmann, Sabine Keller and Dagmar Bloess, Leon Mc Carron, les Pauline, Isabelle, José, Murray, Alec, Virginie, Julie Meignen , Hugh Mc Dermott, Fanny Hubinnet.... 

Thanks to Stephane and Veronique Bigo who greeted us and welcome us into their house for an intensive one week training to learn everything about traveling with horses and horsemanship. Thanks for sharing your positive vibes, laughts and wonderful stories and anecdotes from your travel adventures across the world on horseback and the million pieces of advice to make our journey a success! And last but not least, thanks to Veronique, for sharing her Qi gong techniques with us, which I am sure will be very helpful to remain calm during stressful situations during our trip!

But also massive thanks to the people who helped us out in Bariloche, including Ignacio for hosting us and allowing us to store all our gear at this place, Lucas y Agus for providing us with a place to stay, Niko, and all the guys involved in horse stuff...Tom Wesley, Kathrin, Ariane, Pauline, Gustavo, Mavi, Ricki, Dominik, Cristian and his dad....and many others! 

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And last but not least, everyone we met on our "camino" who offered us a place to stay, whether it was a nice house with comfy beds, or a "galpon" (shed) away from the rain, nice warm food, mate, and many gifts along the way. Thanks for sharing the little things you have with us, sharing your kindness and hospitality with total strangers. These include: Familia Miranda in la cordillera secundaria, Martin y Mariela in El Bolson, Gerardo in El Hoyo (thanks for letting us take a warm shower!), Jacques and Sophie in Epuyen, Toli and her husband in Villa Blanco (thanks for the lovely breakfast and letting us stay in your garden), the ranger in Parque de los Alerces (thanks for taking our dog and bringing it to us at the exit of the park!), Nestor in Trevelin (thanks for opening up your camping just for us and our horses), Marco in the huella Andina from el Bungalow (thanks for taking us on such beautiful rides to the cascades and the mountains and inviting us for asado!), Guillermo for giving some fresh eggs to us and letting us stay in his garden, a family in Cerro Centinela (who invited us "para descansar" and who gave us food, Luis y Ebaristo from Santa Teresita for treating us so well, and taking us on quad bikes, fishing and treating us with amazing food and wine, and Luis, thanks for all the gifts, Daniel Rosas for taking us through the cordillera between Carrenleufu and Lago Winter, Pedro Solis, the family from Estancia Tres Valles for lending us a luxurious house with the best beds and showers, Tiso in Rio Pico for taking us everywhere in the village, lending your house to us, Tiso's mum for showing us how to milk a cow, and giving us dulce with bread to take with us, Delia and her family in Las Mulas for the amazing breakfast and the great times with you guys, Nelson on Ruta Apeleg for letting us stay in your house, feeding us asado,preparing us milanesas to take with us, and showing us the way so we don't get lost, Victor, Roberto Juan y Mendoza from the Ea 3 Zorros, for lending us a comfy bed, letting us take a shower, and feeding us an amazing dinner, Travis for coming to meet us by surprise on Ruta Apeleg and hooking us up with a great deal staying at the albergue for free in Aldea Apeleg and trying very hard to help us find a place for our horses,Luz y Ricardo from the estancia Pujana in Rio Senguer, thanks so much for lending us a house, feeding us, and rescuing us when it was pissing rain, Manuel Camus from Ea Arroyo Verde for giving us a place to sleep with mats, and feeding us and our horses, Raul and Tania from Ea Rosarina for accepting to draw for us and tolerating our full on presence in their kitchen! Estancia el Nire for keeping up with us after we got lost in a maze of fences and we had to turn back and go back to their estancia at 9pm! Familia Perez from Ea Numancia, the most wonderful people of the trip, who welcome us into their homes with open arms and gave us finally an opportunity to help! Your smiles will stay forever in our memories. The guys from the puesto de la veranada de la Numancia, sharing their good sense of humor, feeding us asado and yummy tortas fritas. We will remember for ever the different notion of time of Isaiya who told us we should get to our next destination within four hours....we arrived there 9 hours later at 10pm! Sebastian and Gabriel from La nicolasa, again for treating us so well, shoeing our horses and refusing payment, taking us for rides, feeding us and lending us a nice house with our own rooms! Luxury again! The three young boys from Ea Bahia, Marta from Ea Alegre for inviting us for dinner, and finally Luigie from Ea La Esperanza, who greeted us with an asado, and gave us a place to sleep in his house, and who bought our horses in Perito Moreno. You are all amazing people and thanks again for opening your heart and your kindness with us. Gracias!