The Golden Van: At The Store

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You understand you’re an overlander when…you’re within the store. Facundo went over our electrical system, beneficial some modifications and tried to determine what had gone incorrect. Now we have been residing with a bottleneck in our system the place 100 amp battery is obstructing our two 250 amp batteries. Apparently with this line up the massive accumulators by no means get correctly crammed. Who knew? 

In the meantime the dearth of charging got here all the way down to a damaged alternator. Now we have a second alternator devoted to charging the home batteries and the destructive pole has failed, no matter that’s.  At the very least it wasn’t the three thousand greenback inverter/charger. 

The alternator been eliminated and despatched away to be rebuilt for an estimated $70. I’m simply hoping their certainty that it is going to be repaired works out. In the meantime all our junk from the again of GANNET2 is resting comfortably within the spare room of our cabin within the woods. 

We have been extraordinarily fortunate to search out this place the place they restore RVs and construct them too.

That they took us in straight away was a bonus, and so they have a lot of work assembling van interiors and constructing journey trailers from scratch. A pair got here by trying to have a trailer constructed for his or her southern Chilean travels. 

I thanked Facundo for his work and discovered he’s from Argentina the place he began an web video safety firm, he speaks English Russian and German after working in Berlin and Russia and he travels by bike. We had notes to alternate when he instructed me of his fall in Patagonia that wrecked his bike and shredded his garments and left him on foot alone in Patagonia with no water. After two days he walked out to search out assist. The survivor: 

I left GANNET2 to be repaired and…

…took a thirty minute Uber journey again to the cabin. It was good to be a passenger. 


And that is the place we’re staying till Saturday morning. At the very least that’s the plan. 
Me being John Bunyon. 

That is the warmth and it’s blazing scorching. 45 levels and raining outdoors? No drawback. Besides cleansing up the ash and lugging the logs and beginning the hearth…who wants central warmth? Tea and a e book and a blazing log is fairly good. 

A fuel range with an oven and a full sized fridge. 

Rusty loves this place. He sits outdoors on the gravel watching the chickens scratching round. He sits within the porch when it rains and solely is available in to sleep or eat or if I demand his firm. In any other case Patagonia climate fits him. 

We’re about half a mile from the PanAmerican Freeway and about thirty minutes from the waterfront in Puerto Montt. 

Layne had been in touch with a German couple overlanding Chile whose Unimog expedition truck broke an axle. They’re ready for a substitute to return from Germany. Possibly this week, possibly not. 

They have been commiserating with Layne on WhatsApp once we immediately wanted a spot to remain and there was an empty cabin subsequent to theirs. 

Two bedrooms, two bogs and $55 an evening. Accomplished. 

Rusty’s mattress as he’s required to spend the evening indoors for our peace of thoughts. 

I didn’t imply to present the impression he hates to be in right here. He likes his day mattress too. 

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