The 28 or so hours traveling here has proven to be more than worth it! While the flight from Houston to Santiago was overnight and in the dark, the three hours from Santiago to Punta Arenas were spent winging over the Andes. Amazing is a word overused in America, but if you see these mountains from the air, well, this is what amazing means. First we saw snow covered mountains as soon as taking off, then glaciers, then extinct volcanoes, and then, an active volcano. Yep, complete with smoke coming out of a snow covered peak. We landed in Punta Arenas in very typical Patagonian weather, 10 degrees C. and a fine mist. But the hostel was warm and toasty and we then took to the streets to wander. By dinner time the rain had stopped
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