Mar 16, 2005 - Las Termas de Chillán

"Chile is at least a place where one can find oneself and find other people with a compass which is that of real life," Victor Jara, Chilean folk singer. It rained all night, and he valley was full of dense fog. I lunch and packed my swim trunks and towel. I was going to find hot springs fog or not. I sat on the alberge's front porch waiting for the bus to take me 17 km up the valley when a carbinero, a Chilean police officer, walked by. He saw my trekking poles and asked where I was going. I told him I was going to hike the trail to the...