People We Met in Chile

Alistair came to South America on the 14th of September with the plan to ride 10,000 km from Santiago to the bottom of Patagonia, up the coast of Argentina to the border with Brazil then across to Peru and back down to Santiago by the 20th December. We met Alistair on a boat from Puerto Montt to Ayeser, Chile.

While hanging out in Coyahique with Darly, we checked CouchSurfing.com for any Couch Surfers in the area who would like to hang out that night. We found Alex. We had some great conversation about culture at a cool hang-out place.

William and I got to Coyahique on Halloween. We went to a restaurant and asked the waitress if there was any cool places to hang out for Halloween that night and she said there was. In fact she came with us to hang out. Darly was the waitress.

Roro was our first Couch Surfing experience. He lives in a house with about 15 other people. Roro was once rich, but has chosen to live like a poor man. We wrote about Roro in a blog post.

We stayed with him in his 8'x8' room sleeping on the floor.

The Contreras' were our first homestay in Chile thanks to the Toro family in Kentucky. They are very active in their church and are super-nice. They let us stay in a part of the house that was sectioned off with its own bathroom and bedroom.

We arrived at their house at 3AM so we didn't see them until the next day. When they met us they were very surprised because they thought we were going to be Hispanic.

They have a cute little dog named Luna which became our first Chilean friend.