Isla Chiloé

Isla Chiloé is amazingly beautiful. We spent two nights in a very rustic cabin directly above the Pacific coast. We had big windows overlooking the water, and at night the moon. The second night there was a big wind storm and we watched the moon and clouds over the wild water while listening to the wind. This place, Puñihuil, is very remote but easy to get to by bus. I´m amazed at how nice and helpful the bus drivers are in Chile. They stop the bus and help us load our big backpacks and they don´t seem to mind that we and all our bags are delaying their route. Since I don´t usually know our stop, I just tell the driver where we want to get off and he lets us know when we get there.

Our friends are returning to Colorado in a few days, and we travel farther south, by boat because we are almost at the end of the highway.

In Puerto Varas we almost met up with my aunt and uncle Pati and Peter, who are taking a cruise around Chile and Argetina, but we just missed them by two hours! We at least got to email with them about the places we are seeing.

As I hear from my mom in Minnesota that it´s been below zero and getting dark early, we´re enjoying that it´s early spring here and stays light until almost 9 p.m.!

We´ve been traveling faster since we are traveling with friends, and I haven´t kept up well with the blog, but I´m posting pictures o Flickr. Check out the sets called Puerto Varas and Isla Chiloé if you would like to see them.