After the locura of New Year´s in Valpo and trying to go anywhere in Renaca during this time, it was a bit of a shock getting to Talca where you were lucky to find a retaurant open and of course I forgot that no wineries are open on sunday!! Chillan and Los Angeles are small insiginficant stops on the route la Laguna de la Laja, but el VOLCAN Antuco and the laguna was well worth the time and effort, if not for the views then for the feeling of being the only people in this national park. Villarrica and Pucon of course were touristy, but the everyday adventures of rafting, canopy, and hiking the base of a still active volcanoe were enough to make the crowds shrink away. I arrived in Valdivia to find myself in a German Cerveceria with 8 samples of yes, delicious beer, something I thought I might never say, but after meeting two americans from CHicago and 3 rather large beers later the beer never tasted better! Laura, Kevin and I showed true american style and continued to drink the entire day, we wound up with two bottles of wine in the middle of a Pinera Rally, an election candidate here in CHile, the elections are on the 17th. Then of course we went to an Irish bar and had some pisco, and then live jazz and another pisco at what looked like an old western bar, all in all, it was a pretty good time. Off to explore the fish market and the lily gardens and then Puerto Montt.
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