After travelling the roads of Patagonia without direction or purpose, without schedule or committment, nor house or hearth for months...I have had a place to live for the past three weeks that has fullfilled all of those. Not only have I slept in the same bed every night, but I´ve been part of a family, had a rigorous work schedule, caught some beautiful rainbow trout in the Andes, eaten healthy whole meals and participated in many conversations in which I have had absolutely no clue what we are talking about. All this has taken place on a farm in central Chile belonging to a friend of mine, Carlos, and it has been just what I needed after the fear and loathing and dissolusionment that many weeks on the road can bring. Moreover, I finally have found the summer...temperatures in the 30s every day and neverendng sunshine...as well as a place to improve my Spanish. But, after all that, I´m giving up the security of homelife for the road once more and shooting off to Santiago tomorrow for a bit of cosmopolitan living and some much needed shopping...farms are hard on clothes.
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