Monday, September 28, 2009

getting started

apologies for low literary, gramatical and photographic standards. the plan here is to keep folks up to date on my adventures in chile and argentina with a minimum of time on le internet (las internet; das internet¿ fuck i cant even find the question mark and what is alt GR? got it¿)

a storm rolled into chile just after i landed in santiago and closed the roads both to the resorts nearest to santiago and the mountain pass to portillo and argentina. this was ok by me because i needed to figure out a) where i wanted to ski and b) how i was going to get there. i spent the first 3 days exploring the used car lots of santiago, as the plan was to buy a cheap car or truck to live out of and resell after my trip. my rule was that if i got in a bind and had to sell quick for 1/3 the purchase price it should still be cheaper than renting a car for the time i was here. used cars are pricey here and i soon found myself looking at barely street leagal 10 year old xr250 dirtbikes and it still wasn´t working out. so i started looking at the ski possibilities using ski area shuttles and public transportation and realized that there were way more than a couple months of adventures to be had there.

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