Concepción would be the largest city we’ve been to since Valparasio, and while it’s technically a port city, our inland route to get there would mostly be on major highways. So we “slept in” until 6am, expecting that there wouldn’t be much scenery to stop to look at along the way. Our more-inland route meant Read more…

We woke to our first clear day in what feels like a week, and since our continuing ability to stick near the cold Pacific should protect us from the sun’s heat, we could simply enjoy the effects of better light for the day’s improved scenery (or was the scenery improved by the higher-contrast lighting?) Our Read more…

It took three hours after our 5:30am alarm to get rolling (a bit longer than normal), partly because we had to collect and pack our laundry which we’d left hanging last night from lines in the covered garage/patio space, following yesterday’s late-in-the-day wash cycle (we’re yet to see a dryer in South America, but thankfully Read more…

We kept with our up-at-5:30, out-at-8am cadence, this time because we did have a long day ahead. And it started right off the bat with a huffer, an 800-foot climb out of the city of Constitución, the 2nd-largest city we would pass through on the coast of central Chile. That size meant that there was Read more…

We were up at 5:30am, not because the day was expected to be particularly long or challenging, but because we had the opportunity to keep ahead of things on this 5-day push. At our AirBNB just a couple blocks from the ocean it was again foggy enough for water to be dripping off the rooftop Read more…

We had a “short day” today so we made the most of our most-expensive lodging in South America and didn’t roll out until 10:45am (that expensive lodging was without electricity for most of the night and well into the morning, but the gas stove worked and the water worked, so it barely affected us). We’d Read more…