NO, we’re not dead. And YES, it has been way more tough than we thought.
Apologies for this incredibly late post, but the last two months have been insane. Crazy on one side and extremely boring (un-inspiring) on the other.
The good news it’s that we’re now on the road.
To cut a VERY long story short, we bought a van (the great westfalia, named Betsy) after waiting for it to be fixed for over a month since we first got in Santiago, then we blew the engine three days after, waited for two more weeks for a new engine to be installed, and when we thought we were ready to travel, a list of 20more “little” things to fix came out.
And all this brought us to THE MAN. There’s a picture of him at the beginning of the post, because even if Chile has been terrible under soooo many ways, he’s the symbol of all the amazing people that we’ve met on our tribulation. Javier (El Ja, rally driver, fantastic mechanic and awesome person), Arturo (our “random” friend in Santiago who help us incredibly, and mounted the solar panel) and a list of other people who made our staying enjoyable and less stressful (you know who you are).
So here we are, two tow trucks, 4 mechanics later, and a few miles behind our backs, we’re now heading to Argentina. Ready to start this journey.
More photography and video will come soon.