We spent the last day or so waiting for a window to fly. The news now is that it could be Saturday at the earliest, getting very anxious now.
There are dogs everywhere here, running around in packs, eating garbage and generally doing other dog things (like making more dogs).
This dog found a good patch of grass to deposit a present for everyone in the restaurant.
We decided to spend the time waiting in Torres del Paine, a national park here in Chile (southern pantagonia). It was beautiful, took over 6 hours of driving, but was worth it (better than sitting at hotel waiting.
Here is a picture of me hiking up the mountain to see the Towers. It was a long hard hike, but the scenery was worth it.
As you can tell, my razor is sitting with my antartic gear packed on the plane, think I will have to go get a new one to get me by. By the way, I will have to go to laundromat when we get back to Puenta Arenas and settled in again, things are getting stinky here.
Here is another view of the clouds rolling off the mountains.
For anyone interested, the Torres del Paine were formed 12 million years ago when a Giant piece of the earths mantel pushed up through the ground forcing the bedrock high into the sky.
A friend of ours from Ireland, Mark, is pictured here in the Torres del Paine National Park. He has insisted that all pictures of him be cropped out to only include his face, and nothing else, so here he is in front of a very scenic backdrop.
He is also running for charity so I thought I would at least include a short blurb about him. Will post more mug shots of him with the good stuff cropped out as the adventure progresses.
Will try and post more later.
