In September 2011, Freya Hoffmeister will depart on her next adventure to become the first person to sea kayak the entire coast line of South America. The 47-year-old business owner from Husum, Germany will start in Chile in the middle of the West Coast. Departing from Valparaison, the main harbor just off Santiago, she will head South on the Pacific Ocean towards Cape Horn. Freya may round the Cape or “shortcut” through the Magellan Strait. Heading north again along Argentina on the Atlantic, she will end her first stage in Buenos Aires, Argentina, having paddled roughly 7,500 km in eight months. In between legs she plans to return to Husum for some time to spend with her 15-year-old son and attend to her two ice cream shops and a Christmas shop. Starting again in October 2012, Freya will head north along the East Coast along the tropical countries of Uruguay and Brazil. After crossing the equator, she’ll pass French Guyana, Surinam, Guyana and end the second stage in Caracas, Venezuela after another 8,000 km and eight months of paddling. Stage three picks up again in October 2013 and takes her past Columbia, through the Panama Canal and along the rest of Columbia, Ecuador, Peru and back south to Valparaiso, Chile. Freya will finish the last 7,500 km stage just in time for her 50th birthday in May 2014. Upon completion, Freya will have paddled the coastline of 11 countries, traveled as far south as the 50th latitude and as far north as the 10th, and crossed the equator twice. The trip around the world's fourth-largest continent will be Freya’s fourth big adventure. Her previous trips took her in 2007 around Iceland in a record 33 days. Three months later, she became the first woman to round the notoriously-rough South Island of New Zealand in a record 77 days, solo and unsupported. In October 2008, Freya set out on her next adventure, a solo circumnavigation of Australia. While there have been dozens of attempts, Freya is the first woman to complete the journey and only the second person since Paul Caffyn completed it 25 years ago; she finished the 9,400 mile (15,000 km) circumnavigation around Australia in 332 days. Freya is using her web site and her Facebook page to publish her progresses to a growing crowd of thousands of followers worldwide.