So, a month into the journey and I’m finally getting around to setting up this blog. Let me sum up my experiences of the past few weeks and get you all up to date: got sick; arrived in Santiago; got sicker; coughed a lot; slept a lot; got some antibiotics; slept some more; sweat a lot – it’s damn hot here!; and after three weeks finally got out of Santiago and onto the road. Things have started rather slowly.
Here are some random initial thoughts about Chile. Instead of cans of pop they still have glass bottles. Very cool. I’ve seen a couple of Ladas! I didn’t think those were still on the road (Put it in H!, as Crazy Vlaclav would say). My Spanish absolutely sucks. And the Chilean accent is damn thick. As a result I have no idea what people are saying to me and I’ve been doing a lot of smiling and nodding. Luckily that hasn’t gotten me into any trouble so far. We’ll see how long that lasts.
This is just the beginning. There will be more to come.
