Good Morning Chile!

I made it into Chile after waking up in the uncontroolled middle land between argentina and Chile to one of the most spectacular scenes of nature, a lake below the cliffs i slept on, with the river valley flowing from the east, and the forest, and high mountains way in the distance with the morning light streaming through the scattered clouds across it all, it just felt like i was on the right path.  2 hours later i was at the Chilean checkpoint with another four hours of trekking along another series of high lakes forest and then to a road and civilization.

I am now there at llanada grande, a small pueblo along a new unpaved road waiting to take a bus through to puerto Varas.  I did not expect to make it this far, however i was picked up almost immediately along the road by a vacationing couple in their later years who brought me to this little town strip.  After buying a pisco from the convenience store to celebrate  i was stopped outside of town by a topographer, as i was looking for a suitable place to camp alongside the road.   After talking for several minutes in my broken spanish with him he took me to a friends house farther up the road where they were happy to let me camp alongside their crystal clear and amazingly fresh flowing river.  I slept great apart from the rooster who thought the sun was coming up and 330 in the morning, and happened to also be a stubborn rooster at that.  But i am super stoked to start day two here and am very excited to spend my last month in chile, hopefully it will be just as fun and interesting as yesterday.

Yesterday, being the day that this journal is about was just as good as the first to start.  After catching the jankiest bus in the world, piled high with luggage from all the locals traveling to the port city from deep in the Chilean forest the bus came to an abrupt stop at a lake.  It turns out, part of the bus trip included a necessary boat travel across a Patagonia Lake to get to where the road picked up again!  Total cost for the boat was two dollars, and the views were incredible.  Truely a great suprise.