We crossed back into the Chile the day our dear friend Michael was to arrive all the way from the States. I met Michael while he was in his final year of residency at the children's hospital. For this vacation he only had a week to work with, we were sure he wouldn't fly to the end of the world to meet up with us. We were wrong, this crazy doc flew into Punta Arenas to hike Torres Del Paine with us.
We met him coming off the bus in Puerto Natales, got him checked into Nancy's Place, our hostel, and went for a bite to eat at the local Baguales Brewery. He hadn't slept much, but wasn't going to miss a beat. We signed up for the all day tour of Torres Del Paine for the following day to get an overview of the park before embarking on the big hike.
The tour was fun. We stopped at the entrawling cave of the Milodon. According to the tour guide the Milodon was a prehistoric relative to the armadillo with fish bones, might have gotten something lost in translation there. After that exciting viewing, we headed to the park, after a quick pitstop at an overpriced touristy cafe of course. The park was beautiful that day, the sun shone brilliantly. Michael set up his tripod and took some good photos, Josh took some great ones with our camera as well. Of course, he wants a bigger and better camera even more now though...thanks Mike. We saw the Torres, the Horns, Salto Grande(waterfall), and an Iceberg maybe a shadow of Glacier Gray. The wind was ferocious and scary. Even scarier was the fact that we were starting the 9 day loop of the circuit the next day...with winds that fierce, how?...that was just the beginning.
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