Friday, December 19, 2008

patagonia

It´s Chile here. (¿Geddit? Chile. Although I´m not actually in Chile, but I´m close enough.)

It´s a little cold here in the Andes. Bariloche is a little ski town, and although mid-summer, there is still snow on the mountains, and one fuck off lake, amongst many.
It feels like Switzerland, but a little more decrepit. Although decrepit may be the wrong word, more sort of chilled and things don´t run here like in Switzerland. Staying a a hippie place, where people hang in hammocks and do a lot of hiking.
Made more friends yesterday over copious bottles of Malbec tinto, and Dad woke up again, in his underpants and exclaimed, ´Fuck. I´ve lost my keys, MP3 player and my bus ticket out of here,´to a very-alarmed looking Ozzie girl who was in our dowm. While dad was packing his johnson in his underpants right in front of her face. Dad you also lost your dignity last night, but whatever.

It´s been heavy going being with Dad 24-7, I won´t lie.
We got shitfaced last night with the dudes here, and ended up in some biloche or pub, where everyone picked up an instrument and started a makeshift hostel band on the stage.

It´s beautiful here, and tomorrow I´ll be climbing two fucken mountains. With amazing views.

For now, I´m just hungover.

God there are a lot of gnomes in this town. With fankly, scary-looking faces man. I´m bringing back gnomes for everyone, lucky bastards.

8 comments:

po said...

Have you had any pisco yet? And have you seen any llamas? I love llamas!

Anonymous said...

bring me a gnome, por favor. stumbled onto your blog...it's the height of snark and hilarity.

Anonymous said...

bring me a gnome, por favor. stumbled onto your blog...it's the height of snark and hilarity.

kyknoord said...

Bring me a gnome, too. I'm looking for a good housewarming present for someone.

MidniteGem said...

my bf climbed Aconcagua round there in Jan - He absolutly LOVED it there. We are supposed to go back next mountaineering season. Enjoy the hiking! :P

Anonymous said...

What about ME? Please call me as soon as you're back - we need to talk. And I want a gnome. Shot.

Miss T said...

its sounds terribly hard-going ;)

Singapore Short Stories said...

I want to visit chile too!