Day 73 January 21st 2007, Punctuality - Coyhaique to Puerto Montt, 1250km

I have always prided myself on my punctuality but today I made have overdone things, we were at the airport this morning before it even opened, not before checkin opened before anyone was there at all. After much verbal abuse from Shelley about an extra hours sleep two bus loads of tourists who had never seen an airport before turned. I stood my ground on getting to an airport early as almost 100 people tried to work out which of the one chekin desks to use.

Unable to pickup our hire car until tomorrow, this time because of availability not lack of Spanish, we had some time again to spend catching up on emails and remembering that I was once a techie even a programmer in my time I added some new functionality to the blog. It has been a contentious point between myself and Shelley to how many people read the blogs and who has the best blog. As Shelley´s is a brief summary of this one I think it clear. Anyway near the right hand side of this page is a little logo under blog stats, click on this or here and you can see how many people are reading the blog and where they are located, Big Brother is watching you.

Map Stats from 29/01/07 Who in China is reading this? I hope its interesting

Puerto Montt is a small port town built on the side of a hill with streets much like that of San Francisco, unliks San Francisco there were no Gauchos exercising their horses in the towns squares impressive fountain. You can pretty much judge the wealth of a town in South America by the state of its square and Puerto Montts was quite impressive compared other we have seen for example Pisco in Peru where locals kept sheep in the dried up fountain.

Highlights: Falling asleep mid afternoon after getting up way too early for the airport