Author: neil
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Ensenada, CL to Puerto Montt, CL
With our AirBNB’s driveway connecting to the highway, we just continued straight along the route we’d been on yesterday evening, back into the left-side bike lanes that inexplicably* continue for 25 more miles along the south shore of Lake Llanquihue to Puerto Varas (*my guess is that it again has something to do with the…
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Peulla, CL to Ensenada, CL
In Peru, we frequently said “if this was in the US, it would be a National Park!”, for places that didn’t even have names. Chile, by contrast, has been much more active in designating National Parks, but there still seems to be little-to-no tourist infrastructure built into them. So although it’s surrounded by Vicente Pérez…
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Llao Llao, AR to Peulla, CL
Today we were crossing back into Chile by a very unique route, one essentially developed by a company called Cruce Andino, and they’re the sole operator that will ferry you across three different remote mountain lakes (connected by two essentially “private” gravel road segments) before reconnecting with the road network in Chile. Even better, this…
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Dina Huapi, AR to Llao Llao, AR
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…
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Villa La Angostura, AR to Dina Huapi, AR
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…