I Woke up at 10:45am this morning. I was tired again after not sleeping very much the night before. We discreetly packed our bags into the car, so that the gardeners wouldn’t tell that we were leaving. We left the house by 11:45am. It was a 7 hour drive to Chile. Along the way we saw a drastic change of scenery. I was surprised that the Patagonia area wasn’t very pretty at all, especially because it is so famous. As we were driving I also was able to see my first real life Argentinean gaucho who was herding cattle. When we got to Chile we had to take everything out of the car and have it scanned through an x-ray machine like at the airport. It was quite a process. Chile is much more lush and green than Argentina is. The Garica’s pointed out Araucarias trees which are famous to this area, we even drove through the largest Araucarias forest in the world. I was very surprised that about one third of the drive was on dirt roads. Maria kept saying “that’s Argentina for you,” I just couldn’t believe that such a traveled international road could be unpaved. I also found it interesting that for the whole drive the highway was only 2 lines, one lane in each direction. I can only imagine how bad the traffic must be during peak season.
When we got to Pucon we had to drive around for a bit because we didn’t not have a hotel reserved. We ended up getting a nice place called Volcano Apart Hotel which is right in the center of the downtown. It had great views of the city and the late and the room even had a little living room and a kitchenette. We decided to walk around a bit and went to the grocery store to grab a few snacks for the room. Afterwards we went to dinner at a place called Suizo. I had a dish with a thin layer of steak with ham and grilled cheese and another layer of thin steak. It was really good. We were all exhausted from our long day on the road and after dinner went back to the room and went straight to bed.
Bye for now.
Love,
Katie
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