Well, I´m back in Puerto Varas, the town where I aborted my bike travels and stored my trusty steed for a few weeks. Made the dash down here from Santiago last night, and am heading back tonight with the bike (ahh, nothing says good times like 14 hours on an overnight bus, followed by…another 14 hours the next night!). Being in the south it´s a bit colder. The air was thick with chimney smoke this morning. I had forgotten that in Chile and Argentina, central heating is a rarity and practically everyone heats their homes with woodburning stoves. Most houses also have woodburning ranges in their kitchens. Below is the one that is in the kitchen of the hostal that I stayed in.
They use that stove everyday. I even saw new ones being sold in a department store in Valdivia! Who knew they were still being made?
Another thing that I forgot about Puerto Varas was that there seems to be an inordinate number of hot women for a town this size. It´s quite unbelievable. Must be something in the water or something.
May 4, 2008 at 2:35 pm
hot stoves and women. niiiice!