South ho!

We got off the boat in Chaiten, Chile about a week ago. What I saw was something undescribable, somthing i have never seen before and certainly somthing i hope to never again see in my life. The city is filled to the brim with ash. I strolled through as many streets as possible during the few hours we had before our bus headed south. Homes were filled to there roofs, and lives were stopped in place, and removed from that location forever. After the clouds burned off, the volcano, still eerlily pouring ash, stood tall over the town. There will be no official recuperacion until it stops errupting.

We caught a bus to Villa santa lucia and found a nice little campsite on the river. The next day our hot sunny weather continued as we road in the back of a truck down south arriving in La Junta. We camped next to a large river the color of the caribean and enjoyed the sun as we swam. The next day after a nice hike down the road, we shared the back of a truck with a lamb. We made it to Puyayapi on the fjord. After camping a few more days in this location, we again hit the road and put our thumbs in the wind. A few days later, after camping in the nonstop rain, we walked hours only to finally roll into a little bump in the road and find one open room. After a night warming up and drying out, we beat the streat again, and after 4 hours walking and a few hitch hikes, we arrived to our current location of coyhaique. We will again stay under a dry roof tonight as we look for our next romp into the wilderness.

Patagonia is filled with glaciers, its amazing! Its quite an experience to swim in the ocean, in the shadow of a glacier and then drip dry in the middle of december.

Hope all is well on the states side, we´ll be keeping our thumbs in the wind!
Salud and happy new year!