Month: July 2013

Escondido, California, United States  July 26, 2013 – After 15 days and approximately 12,833 miles traveled we are home safe and sound tonight. Although we had an amazing trip, it is always good to come home to your own space, your own bed and your loving family and friends. Thanks for following us on our…

Puerto Montt, Lake District, Chile July 25, 2013 – We woke up this morning and it was raining…we have been soooo lucky with the weather on our trip to Chile. If it had been raining during our trip we would not have been able to see the beautiful rolling hills in the wine country, the lovely…

Puerto Varas, Lake District, Chile July 24, 2013 – We had a very busy day today. At breakfast in the palafito we had more espresso and lattes 🙂 We also met a lovely German couple. They were slightly older than us and they were just starting their travels through Chile and were going all the way…

Castro, Isla Chiloe, Chile July 23, 2013 – Breakfast at Faros del Sur was delicious as usual with all the customary Chilean breakfast items offered. We have had more “pan” (bread) in the last 2 weeks that we have had in a year. It was very foggy this morning which worked well with our plans to…

Ancud, Isla Chiloe, Chile July 22, 2013 – Today we decided to hit the towns where many Germans immigrated to. We left Osorno and traveled south to visit Puerto Octay and Fruitillar. There were charming old Bavarian style buildings there. These small towns are in the southern portion of the lakes district and along the shores…

Panguipulli, Lake District, Chile July 21, 2013 – Bad Internet access…such a beautiful area. More later…  Comments Cait on July 21, 2013 Well dang you got me all excited about a new post and there is nothing to read! Miss you guys! I’m glad you realize now the errors of your ways and know that next time…

Panguipulli, Lake District, Chile July 21, 2013 – Well we literally froze our asses off last night. It was so cold we couldn’t even get out of bed until around 9 am. We got up and tried to get cleaned up but the water would not get warm… at all. We had the shower, kitchen and…

Panguipulli, Lake District, Chile July 20, 2013 – Well we started out today thinking that we were going to have our breakfast and then head over to the town of Panguipulli to do some shopping. We arrived in town about 10:30 and nothing was really open…so we drove down to the lake to check it out…it…

Pucon, Lake District, Chile July 19, 2013 – We are so excited to be in the part of Chile that we have been waiting to see. We woke up this morning and Wayne had a few emails to tend to so I did some sink laundry and hung our clothes to dry all over our bathroom….

Pucon, Lakes District, Chile July 18, 2013 – We had a great nights sleep in our twin beds….haha.   We encountered our first rude waitress at our hotel in Chillan. We were supposed to have breakfast included with our room, so we were directed to the breakfast area and went into the restaurant and sat down…