Funny how things you are excited about always seem so far off and when they finally arrive, you question that its actually real. That is how I awoke this morning. After laying in bed for about ten minutes I decided that yes, today was in fact the day Felipe was coming to visit. But before his arrival I had to bike down to the cabaña that Thomas had help me rent so I could pay. It was a short ride over but down a bit hill... Which was great going down but not qui...

Yesterday something terrible happened --- we ran out of dishwasher tabs! Thomas and Sandra are pretty sure that we are the only place in town that has a dishwasher because they imported it from Germany. Thankfully, they also have a good supply of tabs still in the storaget container on the edge of town. So today they went out with Mateo, their son, to go dig out some more. Turns out they have enough for 3 summer seasons, so we should be good! The printer we us...

Today we said goodbye and good luck to Adam. Our new guest was a man from Wales who was cycling from the south of Chile up to Alaska (and attempting this in 18 months). He told me that the winds of southern Patagonia had been pretty rough to him so far -- he had been blown right off his bike numerous times already! So yeah, we have some pretty nasty winds here :-/ Today I started a Facebook Page for our hostel business. The challenge in this was that Thomas ha...

The last few days Thomas has been out on a fly fishing trip with the same guys who trekked the glacier last week. They ended up having a great time fishing (and enjoying Russian vodka in the night. Haha) and today they were departing. These guys were pretty hardcore. Beint was using this trip as research because he would like to come back and start a tour company (and work with Thomas and Sandra). Peter was in the army back home but was thinking about changing ...

Happy Thanksgiving! Today was full of nostalgia for me. Back home my parents with with my sister Caprice and her little family in Texas. My other sister Jess and her husband and three kinds were in PA (for the first thanksgiving away from my parents, I think). My other sis Missy was with her husband in the Colorado mountains. So we were all spread out. My circus was doing the Chicago McDonalds Thanksgiving Parade, which I missed terribly and tried in vain to do a...