Day 81 January 29th 2007, South Again - Pucon to Puerto Montt

One of the mistakes or oversights we made in Chile was booking two internal flights to get us North, without much time to research the trip it seemed a good way to cover the country. What it meant was that we landed at both Balmaceda and Puerto Montt and had to do twice as much driving. For example if we had driven from Balmaceda to Puerto Montt, travelled North as we have done this last week we would could have driven straight to Santiago from Pucon, saved a flight and not had to drive back South again. Just some advice for anyone travelling in Chile.

If you have never been to Chile or looked at a map of it this will make no sense, but as we didn't do anything but drive today I had to write something. I was going to write about how each of the towns in Chile use the same names for their streets, but as Shelley wants to write about the hero's of Chile in her blog I couldn't.

The drive however back to Puerto Montt where we fly to Santiago is pretty straight forward, the longest straight road I have driven one, no speed cameras and no cops. The only thing you have to slow down for is the toll booths every 100km or so.

Highlights: Not having to watch out for the old Bill every 5 secs