San Martin, Argentina
I hope everyone is doing well. We successfully crossed into Chile and back again into Argentina. Santiago is ultra modern and is like stepping into any US city except they speak spanish. We stayed a couple of days in the city and took an excursion out to Valparaiso, which is Santiagos hour away get away city. Its kinda ironic but in the coffee growing continent its hard to find a cup of brewed coffee, its usually instant coffee which is not the same. So at Valparaiso I got to indulge on a coffee ice cream drink that was absolutley amazing.
After that we took an overnight bus down to Pucon, which is a great place because it has a small ski town feel (like Vail or Tahoe). It also has a volcano in the back drop and i thought for sure Dante´s Peak was filmed there. We went on a 2 day snow shoeing trek which was a great time because we hiked up a day and stayed at a refugio. And the 2nd day we broke out the snow shoes to make it to the peak of local mountain. Its turned out to be really cloudy and a little rainy the second day so we made it to the ridge but decided not to summit.
Now were back in Argentina in San Martin and we are going to be renting a car with Kitty and Trevor and heading south through the lake district. The trip is going to take a us a few days and we´ll be car camping for most of it. Its also starting to get cold so you probably wont see anymore pictures in shorts for a while. Anyways all has been well and we´re really excited to start this part of our trip because we´ll be backpacking a lot.
Hope everyone is doing well
Best
Justin
(PS some picts are up under my site... i think im 2)
1 comment:
Sounds AWESOME. I think we will be fine not seeing you in shorts for a while there big guy. Its starting to get cold back home. Snowing in NH. Hope you guys are still having a ball. Have a good Thanksgiving!!!
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