Got a new ride and headed south again.

We finally got out of the city and made it back south, arriving at about 9:00 at night.  We didnt have any plans, so boy we were stoked when we knocked on the door at Roberto and Carlina's house and they said we could stay in the cabin he built at back as long as we liked.  We were glad to not have to sleep in the truck after a 7 hour drive.  Oh yea, we rented a truck, but not the normal way.  We bartered off of a friend of a friend of Juane who needed some extra cash for way less than a chinese rental car would have cost, it's a chevy colorodo and its all our for the next 32 days.  Woohooo!!  I wrote up a contract, as I always do, but in spanish and he signed it without reading it (probably due to my crappy spanish combined with poor hungover handwritting). 

The waves have been mostly flat as forecasted, although we are stoked to be on the coast and helping around the farm. 

Some ways you know you are in Chile:

1)When you wake up and look straight out the window to see good surf, and go back to sleep for another hour to wait for the sun.

2) When you realize dinner is over and you havent spoken engligh in over an hour.

3) When the evening chores include stringing a 200 yard net off the rocky point and anchoring it in the bay, then checking for fish the next morning (this is a lot of hard manual labor, but so far we have gotten 1 salmon, 2 corvina, a robalo, and some crabs). 

4) When the surf is flat and Genji suits up anyways to get molusks off the rocks in the surf zone, which Carlina goes nuts for ("Muy Rico" she says when he comes back with his wetsuit stuffed).

5) When the car battery goes dead and you realize the nearest auto store is 200 miles away.  Lucky for us, there was a guy with a battery charger 2.5 miles away.  I carried the battery over a mountain pass first to drop it off accompanied by Roberto and Genji and Luna the dog, then retrieved it solo in a light rain 5 hours later, getting chased by a few bulls for part of the way. 

6) When there are two guys out and you wait for it to get "less crowded". 

We were rewarded with a small swell two days ago, and another pulse this morning.  There is a big swell in the forecast which we are very excited to try to surf our best looking point break on.  The aussies are on the bus down now, and we are headed to go pick them up in the nearest town in a few hours.  Hopefully by early next week we will have gotten plenty of good waves.  Cheers for now, and here's some pics to keep ya interested. 

Trying to get out of Santiago, and ending up driving through a congested farmers market.

The farm. 

View out the bedroom window on a foggy morning.

View from the table.

We decided to cook for them one night, we made this giant sausage pizza.  I insisted Carlina get in for a picture though (they are photo shy here, and ask us questions like "Is Alaska and island?" and "Did you have to fly across an ocean to get here?".)  Not to portray them as uninteligent, watching them work their farm it is clear they are from a very different place where simple values and skills are much more valuable.

Genji feeding fish heads to our new pet puppy, Rambo.  He comes to our place every morning to lick the cereal bowls clean or whatever we have lying around to feed him.  Classsic liitle pooch. 

Last night view from the cabin.

 Me and Luna on the walk of shame with the battery to get it charged after I left the headlights on (it is the law here to always drive with lights, and the Chevy lacks an alarm when they are left on).  lesson learned. 

The biggest storm on the planet is perfectly positioned for us.

"El Contracto".  Would you sign it?  I am indemnified against acts of god hahahaha take that!!!  - Kevin