Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh OK, so I am in Santiago, staying in a converted orphanage/after school cae program with a friend (of a friend) Matt Crip. I am going to be here in Santiago for about a week (a week, in one place!!! yay!!!) getting stuff ready for the next leg of the adventure, when another friend from Alaska comes down and we bike the Carretera Austral in southern chile for three weeks. It feels great to finally be here, and I guess I should finish off with t...

Heyyyyyyyy there. Well, I have 17 minutes to tell you about my last couple of days! After I left Oruru I biked really really hard for a day and made it to the twon of... Chuquicara.... I think... I wasnted to go as far as I could to that town because it was where the pavement south ended. The next I started on the supposedly "two lane dirt road", or at least that is what my map said. The road was oing to be two lanes... eventually. It was under constr...