February 14th, 2010

So nothing too amazing today although we had a spectacular drive through southern Chile's agricultural region as well as making it to Puerto Montt, the end of the road for Chile. Tommorrow we will travel through the lake region and mountains from Osorno to Bariloche in Argentina where we should be less than three days drive from Tierra del Fuego, the end of South America's mainland.

Today was a great day for me as I was able to see Chile's famous volcanoes from the road, Villarica and Osorno. These are both very picturesque, cone shaped, snow capped peaks that really need to be climbed and skied sometime in the future.

Tommorrow we enter our last country in our journey even though we need to cross into Chile and Argentina again to get all the way south. So although we have to deal with customs a few more times, tommorrow we see our last "new" country! (pretty exciting in a 11 country journey!)

Bob and I are both excited to see San Carlos de Bariloche as it was a town settled by the Germans and Swiss around WWII. Likely we should be able to eat some good saurkraut and drink some good German beer!