We spent the weekend right here plugged into shorepower, Starlink and with a full water tank. We’ve our personal rest room with a key, a highly regarded bathe, a bathroom with a seat and campground offered bathroom paper. $32 an evening and nobody bothers us.
You can lease an residence and with that you simply get swimming pool privileges however we’re mere campers. Nonetheless we do have a seaside simply throughout the road.
Sunday morning is rowing day.
These three guys cling across the campground and seaside however Rusty doesn’t like being surrounded. He’s a grumpy previous man identical to me and he bares his tooth and snarls after which acts shocked once they don’t wish to play on his phrases.
The factor is he began out scared in Mexico and on seeing road canines he ran for the van. He’s figured them out although and he’s discovered to face his floor and he is aware of they’re principally cowards. Those he senses are an excessive amount of for him he walks away from and I let him. I’ve discovered to respect his judgement about canines and folks and sketchy locations.
And off he goes, completely satisfied by himself. He has no want to let some other animals into his life which is simply as effectively or we’d be rescuing canines all day. In Chile fortunately there are only a few road canines, actual strays and none of them look desiccated like Mexican strays, essentially the most piteous of all.
He discovered a bone and I needed it so we fought over it for some time. I misplaced.
To the victor go the spoils.
The campground marked by the residences is known as El Huerto -the orchard- and you’ll see them behind Rusty. The hills within the background are the place we drive from to achieve the city of La Serena.
It’s Autumn and the seaside is beginning to consider closing down for the winter. I might stay on Chile’s central coast if we determine to cease touring.
It’s extra relaxed right here than the US particularly for a visiting foreigner. Companies work, the nation is clear and that cool pacific air and the rocky wave stuffed shoreline jogs my memory of California, however a spot that possibly existed earlier than individuals had the means to crowd the locations they cherished.
There are many excessive rises right here however if you happen to drive south the coastal freeway passes via villages and lengthy stretches of cypress timber and ice vegetation and rocky seashores which might be visited principally in January and February. I’m simply sorry we have now to rush north proper now to satisfy our mates, I might meander down the coast doing nothing very a lot until it will get correctly chilly.
Locations to go, individuals to see, issues to get achieved.
Dwelling candy residence for the weekend. We wish to change the transmission fluid this week as a chunk of early upkeep to ensure all is effectively earlier than we go to the mechanical desert that’s Bolivia. And after that, the plan is to cross the Amazon basin of Brazil which is a whole lot of miles of nothing very a lot. Chile is an efficient place to examine, restore and change if crucial.
In the meantime we anticipate our new tires to be delivered to the store, and the substitute transmission filter to be shipped to the Jeep/Ram/Fiat seller on the town. Then we see what’s what.
