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09:39 am
[Link] | Alright I need to start posting again. I'm in Chile, right now in an island called Chiloe which is off the coast of near Puerto Montt, where the highways run out and you either have to take a ferry through the patagonian fjords or a bus through Argentina. I'm taking the bus route, instead of four days in the dank bowls of CC deck (out of AAA deck) for $421, with the men shoveling coal into furnaces. I picture TB and stowaway families of Jewish mice.
Chiloe is a cool island. It's landscape reminds me a mixture of Wisconsin and the forests in looney toons. It's known for houses like this:
It's also known for having avoided the globalized homogenity of the rest of the country. Chile is strange for that reason because it's a latin american country that's not desperately poor, so it feels more like Canada than Latin America. I like it a lot though, and it's very beautiful. I keep noticing all these privilages and signs of a modern country, like how most dogs don't have balls, and you can open ice cream freezers yourself. That's what wealth is.
Today I'm going to the end of the island and therefore the end of Hwy 5 which starts in Alaska, and goes through Vancouver and the west coast of the Americas. Then I'll go back on the homeland, and on Wednesday head to Patagonia.
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