We have been loving our time here in the Chilean Patagonia!

Since our last blog we have traveled by bus to Puerto Natales, where we celebrated Thanksgiving! We really got lucky, Dean had read in his favorite magazine ¨Backpacker¨, like a year ago, about the best hostel place to stay in Puerto Natales, the Erratic Rock. We looked em up and booked Thanksgiving night and were pleasantly surprised to find that we´d be having a traditional Thanksgiving dinner : ) Helped us to feel right at home!

The next day we took another bus to Parque Nacional Torres del Paine, where we entered the park at the portion of the Circuit trek called the ¨tail¨, probably our favorite day scenery wise! We had excellent weather that day, with gorgeous sun and GUSTY WIND! (50 mph, no joke!) It was tough to walk through, but a great work-out nonetheless! We eventually made it to our first campsite that night which luckily for us had a nice enclosed shelter to cook and stay warm in before we went to sleep in our tent.

Next day, we took it a bit easier, to rest from our previous exhausting day of trekking and made our short walk to the next camp and then headed up to see ¨Valley de Frances¨. We then had a nice awakening the next morning to a few flurries, and headed out for another exerting day (15 miles or so) to our next campsite, Campamento Torres. We had another beautiful day, passing by many glacier aqua colored lakes and beautiful meadows, and then finally made our way up to the point where HEAT MISER and SNOW MISER were having a wrestling match! No joke (for those of you who don´t know your Christmas claymation movies, look it up!) summer and winter were trying to decide who would win this match! We were in the warm sun on one side, then peaked our heads around the corner and could feel the howling gusty, snowblowing wind! You could see summer in one direction, and winter in the other, with the turn of your head. Pretty awesome! but very hard trekking!

Eventually we made our way through our trek after one more morning of waking up in the snow! it was beautiful, helps us to get in the Christmas spirit! (Which has been hard, since it´s summer everyone that we´ve been recently!)

We are now back at the Erratic Rock and will enjoy relaxing till tomorrow when we head by bus to Argentina to see Perito Moreno Glacier and El Chaten, Mt Fitzroy.

Hope you all are well!

Ciao for now!