On-the-Road Tales

Ran some errands about town and got the airport shuttle in the afternoon. Boarded the Sky Airlines 737 for my multistop flight back north. Unfortunetly, the weather was crappy so I did not get a good aerial view of the park or glaciers outside of my specially chosen left side window seat. We set down in the town of Balmaceda, no idea where it is but very isolated and flat. Next we landed in Puerto Montt at an even smaller airport. and 5 hours after starting we got to Santiago. I took my 2$ airport shuttle and decided to walk the next few blocks to my hostal.

Residencial Londres is an enormous maze of a place. Of course, I am on the fourth florr and trudged up leaving breadcrumbs on how to get back out. I ran into a chilean later on who tols me this street with its formidable buildings was once part of Pinochets govt offices. He said some of the socialist organizations still occupied the surrounding places. I would not doubt it. When I returned to the house, the hallways and multiple staircases I had to climb were pitch black. If one believed in haunted houses, this would be a good candidate. The ceilings were cavernous, each floor had a sitting room fillwed with mirrored antiques and everything centered around a great courtyard. wild place. Of course all those windows and open space leads to problems at times which I should have recognized with the Raid bottle sitting by the shared bathroom door.

I turned on the light and little bugs scattered. Ugh. I grabbed the can, sprayed, walked away for 2 minutes and pretended I never saw anything. Ick. Again, you get waht you pay for $15 a night with breakfast and a cool house to get lost in.

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