Friday, December 23, 2011

Heading South!

On the way home from Torres del Paine our stomachs began to grumble. 8 days of oatmeal and instant soup will do that I guess... We managed to find a hostel much cheaper then any other we had seen in Puerto Natales. Our new motto? Follow the isreali's!!! First stop? A long hot shower! Afterwards we returned to Mesita Grande for fresh salad and wood fired pizza! And a new first for me. Corn as a topping on pizza. Dinner was followed by a stop at Baguales, a brewpub for tasty local cerveza's.

In one more example of how small the world is, Suzy and I were there on the recommendation of a friend of hers from work.  By odd coincidence I happened to meet the guy through a completely unrelated friend a few months before Suzy and I began dating.  At the brewpub we struck up a conversation with another American and it turned out he was an NSF scientist returning from Antartica who had just spent 4 days crossing the drake passage with the same guy who had recommended the place to Suzy and I....  So we were all there on the recommendation of a person that we had all met through completely different circumstances.  This is why I love travelling! 





Our hostel was so inexpensive and pleasant that we stayed another day to rest and prepare for the next day of our journey.  We slept in, found a great coffe shop overlooking the Sound of Lost Hope, purchased bus tickets, did some grocery shopping, caught up with friends, and cooked a nice meal.  The next day we got the bus to Punta Arenas...

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