The first plate-o-meat in the Chilean Pacific Northwest 12/15
I was woken up at 6:30am because of breakfast. I slept for a solid 7 of the 10 hour flight. Not bad. NyQuil works well, but now I can't wake up. We land as I fit in one last terrible comedy. Santiago immigration sucks so I asked permission to cut so we don't miss our flight. My terrible Spanish is flowing well.
We had no plans when we landed in Puerto Montt. Such limited plans that we decided to rent a car for 3 days. Boom! Just last that we're heading south for the Chileon Island. We board the ferry and are on our way after noon.
We head for the town of Ancud which is by the ocean. We take a short walk around the small town and found a restaurant where we have the most amazing pile of meat we've ever seen. It consisted of muscles and clams, sausage, pork belly, and a good old piece of fried chicken on top (called Curanto). We also ordered two empanadas and fortunately they didn't have crab so we only got one. It was the biggest empanada I've ever seen in my life, it was pretty much a calzone and full of queso. A couple of beers and our first meal in Chile was delicious and done. We headed off on our journey farther south down the island. The scenery is beautiful. Fields of green with yellow wild flowers everywhere, lupin, trees against some of the most radiant blue colors in the ocean. It really does look like the Pacific Northwest with a little Chilean twist on the houses set against the hillside.
We continue down south to the tip of the island and didn't find any camping spots so we turned around and headed back to Castro. The jetlag was definitely catching up with us, I was falling asleep in the car, I wasn't driving of course, and then all of a sudden Andy started to veer into the oncoming lane. He suddenly woke up, and we were both incredibly calm for the car that almost drove right into us. It's a little bit scary but reminded us that we both need to keep each other awake until we got to our camp spot.
First camp spot we went to we got kicked out because there was no electricity and something else I could understand. No electricity? That's fine we don't need it we're camping. Not possible OK, so we moved on. We headed back north and still found a really great camp spot that's by the water. There hasn't been too many tourists , which is nice, but it's also a little bit weird not to see anybody else.
It's been a great first day, pretty chill and we still covered a lot of area. We ended the day searching for a camp and gas that we forgot to get. It's 8:30 PM and of course nothings going to be open. We stop into a lovely boutique hotel where we have some hot chocolate overlooking the water. We decided to give up on gas we buy some bread meat and cheese and Andy opens up the bottle wine super ghetto style since of course we don't have a wine bottle opener and there's no way in hell I'm going to buy another one. It's almost 10 and it's still light out a little bit. I guess the days are getting shorter here but it's still pretty long. We'll see how long we can stay up. We have to drink the whole bottle wine since the cork is now in the bottle and we have no way to close it. That should be a good mix with the night quill tonight for us to sleep very soundly.
We had no plans when we landed in Puerto Montt. Such limited plans that we decided to rent a car for 3 days. Boom! Just last that we're heading south for the Chileon Island. We board the ferry and are on our way after noon.
We head for the town of Ancud which is by the ocean. We take a short walk around the small town and found a restaurant where we have the most amazing pile of meat we've ever seen. It consisted of muscles and clams, sausage, pork belly, and a good old piece of fried chicken on top (called Curanto). We also ordered two empanadas and fortunately they didn't have crab so we only got one. It was the biggest empanada I've ever seen in my life, it was pretty much a calzone and full of queso. A couple of beers and our first meal in Chile was delicious and done. We headed off on our journey farther south down the island. The scenery is beautiful. Fields of green with yellow wild flowers everywhere, lupin, trees against some of the most radiant blue colors in the ocean. It really does look like the Pacific Northwest with a little Chilean twist on the houses set against the hillside.
We continue down south to the tip of the island and didn't find any camping spots so we turned around and headed back to Castro. The jetlag was definitely catching up with us, I was falling asleep in the car, I wasn't driving of course, and then all of a sudden Andy started to veer into the oncoming lane. He suddenly woke up, and we were both incredibly calm for the car that almost drove right into us. It's a little bit scary but reminded us that we both need to keep each other awake until we got to our camp spot.
First camp spot we went to we got kicked out because there was no electricity and something else I could understand. No electricity? That's fine we don't need it we're camping. Not possible OK, so we moved on. We headed back north and still found a really great camp spot that's by the water. There hasn't been too many tourists , which is nice, but it's also a little bit weird not to see anybody else.
It's been a great first day, pretty chill and we still covered a lot of area. We ended the day searching for a camp and gas that we forgot to get. It's 8:30 PM and of course nothings going to be open. We stop into a lovely boutique hotel where we have some hot chocolate overlooking the water. We decided to give up on gas we buy some bread meat and cheese and Andy opens up the bottle wine super ghetto style since of course we don't have a wine bottle opener and there's no way in hell I'm going to buy another one. It's almost 10 and it's still light out a little bit. I guess the days are getting shorter here but it's still pretty long. We'll see how long we can stay up. We have to drink the whole bottle wine since the cork is now in the bottle and we have no way to close it. That should be a good mix with the night quill tonight for us to sleep very soundly.