Author: neil

As we were heading out, our friendly and curious host (technically the father of the person running the AirBNB listing) stopped by to see us off. He even gave us (well, me) some bananas for the road! As always, we wish we spoke better Spanish so that we could properly communicate, but it’s also satisfying…

Rett had laughed off our host yesterday afternoon when he was showing us how to turn on the gas heater, but with the outdoor temperature down to 43F this morning, it was definitely nice to be able to fire it up (surprisingly, everywhere we’d been in highly-developed Chile used portable propane tanks for water/oven/space-heating, like…

Our three additional days in San Martin de Los Andes were to wait out bad weather, though we had begun to question that decision a bit. It had definitely rained, but only in spurts, and never extremely heavy. The winds had picked up, but nothing shook our apartment building. And it got much colder, but…

We woke up with a bit of drizzle still in the air, enough to make us put on our rain covers, but also enough to make the garden surrounding our AirBNB glisten and sparkle. It quickly dried out, but the temperature never climbed high like it had done the last few days, topping out in…

The closed border station turned the highway into a dead-end road overnight, so as expected, we had a good quiet sleep in our tent at the picnic area. More importantly, no police or park rangers came to roust us out. The first vehicles did begin arriving well before the 8am opening of the border, but…