Well, since our last digital communiqué, much has transpired. I have been having an awesome time travelling up the Carretera Austral. Though it is a famous byway (orignally conceptualized by the brutal dictator, Augusto Pinochet) that connects Northern Patagonia in Chile, in reality, it is little more than a shockingly rural stretch of gravel road that winds up, down, and around some of the most remote country I have ever seen. It is beautiful, very wet, very quiet, and full of extremely nice locals. It took 4 days to go about 300 km, but I am now at the border of Argentina in a town called Futaleufú, which is world famous for the out-of-this-worldly blue river that people travel from across the world to raft (a klunky sentence, I apologize... though this parenthetical clause is really just compounding the problem, isn´t it). Below is a picture of me with ¨Mamá¨. She runs a really nice little campground in Puyuhuapi (another difficuly name!). If I had to describe her in a few words, I would say she had an infectious and heartwarming laugh. We had fun!
It´s a little difficult to relay the events of the last couple of days, but sample this:
- 4 nights rural camping, two days rain
- a dozen new friends (3 Chilenos, 3 Israelis, 2 Americans, 4 Brazilians)
- 1 sunburn
- 0 showers or shaves
- lots of rice
- a full 20% improvement in my Spanish
- 234 ¨thumbs up¨
So, my next stop will be El Bolsón back in Argentina. It is a small mountain community founded by hippies, and they are having a 3 day beer festival!! I am really pumped. You gringos take care, and catch you on the flip side...
I am having such a good time.
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