The Road to Valparaiso

Amber and I stayed up a few hours last night packing for our trip to Valparaiso (Valpo) for today. This morning we awoke, cooked breakfast, and stored our bags at our hostel for a few hours (and for free mind you! Usually they charge for those extra fees to make money off of the tourists/travelers).

We went had to hop onto the metro, as we were running late, and we decided to head straight to the winery. Apperantly it was metro-rush-hour because there were thousands of people on the metro. As I elluded to the other day, these Chileans are vicious in thier process to get where they are going and to get there fast. Its fairly frustrating, because it mainly comes across as rude, completely different from the Spanish way which is less pushy.

Once we arrived at the winery, after an hour and half on the metro and a short cab ride, we took our tour of the winery. We had a really great time as it was just Amber, myself, and some French guy who spoke English but not Spanish. We were given wine glasses and sampled multiple types of wine, which was fantastic. We decided not to take the wine glasses with us, so we left them at our hostel in Santiago. They were beautiful and had "Concha y Toro" etched into them. It´s sad, but its some of the sacrifices that you have to make at the beginning of the journey.

We then grabbed a quick lunch, empanadas, and then grabbed our backpacking bags from the hostel and took yet another crowded metro ride to the bus station. We bought our ticket and the bus took off literally the second we stepped onto the bus. It was great. We both slept the majority of the way, as it was only a 90 minute drive. It was a good sleep too on a great bus. If they are all like that, I shouldn´t have too much trouble sleeping on the over-night ones.

Katie Scott --- You are officially our hero for telling us about Airporter bags. They have already paid for themselves and are such a huge help in this trip. Quite frankly, you´re amazing and we´re both missing you a lot! We hope your trip is going fabulously! We can´t wait to meet up and share all of our summer stories together!!!