Just a quick update. Doing this from my phone and the keyboard is a pain to type on.

We have been in Chile for four days. It’s a little over whelming sometimes. In mexico our Spanish is passable, but here they speak unbelievably fast and drop words short. And tons of slang. But we are getting by. Tawn is doing better with the language than I am. That’s one more thing that makes us a good team.

We spent two days in Puerto Montt. Rented a car today for a week and are staying in a town called Castro tonight. Will be headed a little further south tomorrow to a town called quellon.

Ill update more details and add pictures when we get
home.

In about 24 hours we will be getting on a plane and headed south to Chile.

The first leg is leaving from Seattle around noon to Atlanta Georgia. Then a overnight 10 hour flight from Atlanta to Santiago, Chile. Then on a bus for a 12 hour ride down to a town called Puerto Montt. From there, we have no plans. No reservations. Just 3 weeks in which to hangout and see what it is we can in that short amount of time. Most likely will be renting a car.

I plan to update the site at least a couple times while we are down there. But I”m not taking my laptop. So, it will be short sweet updates from my phone as we can find Wifi. Most pictures till we get back will be phone pictures.

See you when we get back.

Summer time is obviously not the best time for me to be updating websites. Not with weather like we’ve had this year.

My last update was back in May. It is now, somehow September and we are planning for our big trip to South America next month. But more on that in a bit.

Normally we take a 2 week or longer cruise on the boat and go north to the San Juans or Canada, during July/August. This year however, we did not. We wanted to be able to take as much time as we could on our trip to Chile this fall. So we limited our sailing trips to just weekend outings. And trust me, we had some doozies.

We had some great, trips this year. Hit all the usual spots and a few new ones. The weather out here has been spactacular this year. Super warm and really good wind for sailing. We spent the 4th of July rafted up with a great bunch of friends in Poulsbo for the fireworks, and Laborday with the same group rafted up in Port Gamble Bay. And tons of anchorages and weekends in between, up and down the Puget Sound. There are more than a few pictures up on various “friends” facebook pages to tell the story of my 42nd b-day, and laborday, and other random weekends in between……up and down the Puget Sound. Yeeeeesh!

I don’t think i’ll go into the details of each trip. I’d be typing for days. I did however want to get this post started and the webpage in general updated.

As I mentioned earlier, our big trip this year is three weeks down in South America. Chile, to be more specific. And to all you non boat people reading this. We are NOT taking the boat down. We are flying.

Leaving here on October 11th and flying into Atlanta, then on to Santiago, Chile. From there we are taking a bus down to Puerto Montt, which is about 700miles further south. There we will rent a car and see the sights. Other than that and the fact that we have to be back in Santiago to catch a plane home on November 4th. We do not have any plans or intenerary. No reservations, no schedule, no checked luggage to carry around, no nothing.

We do have a small back pack each with a couple changes of clothes, a guide book, a brand new camera and 3 weeks to see as much as we can. I or Tawn will be updating this site and our facebook pages as often as we can when I can find a free Wifi hotspot.