Slept in, then had the nice hostel breakfast.\u00a0 Rode two-up to the motorcycle shop and Levi’s machine was all ready to go.\u00a0 We settled up with Chalaco-Lopez, and rode back to the hostel to load up.\u00a0 We gassed up and had a very easy out of town.\u00a0 Back onto the excellent Chilean freeway.<\/p>\n
Great to be back on the road!\u00a0 We stopped for lunch at a roadside restaurant, and spent too much on a couple of HUGE steaks.\u00a0 We are so excited about making time going south again, that we run completely out of gas near Las Angeles, and have to split the gas can and barely make it to a station before we have to park and hitch-hike!\u00a0 Our closest call yet on running out of gas.<\/p>\n
At\u00a0the station, Levi notices that his rear wheel adjustment is not correct, and some of the adjuster nuts are almost off.\u00a0 So we do a chain and wheel adjustment on both bikes.\u00a0 After that delay we ride a few more miles, and then stop at Temuco, short of where we had hoped to get.\u00a0 We are driving around, checking out all the cheap-looking hostels,\u00a0 when a woman drives up while Levi is waiting for me outside one dumpy place, and tells him that she rents out rooms in her back yard, and has an opening, if we want to check it out.\u00a0 So we follow her home, and decide that her place is a good deal.\u00a0 She mostly rents to students, and each tiny room has a set of bunk beds and includes kitchen privileges.\u00a0 It is cheap and clean, so we stay there.\u00a0\u00a0 We do sandwiches for dinner, and then get invited into our landlady’s house for wine and conversation.\u00a0 We hear lots of stories about life and politics in\u00a0Chile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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