I have made it to La Serena, Chile, hitchhiking! I have been extremely fortunate although one night I had to sleep a few hours in a busstop outside Antofagasta and I don't know if it was from the fatigue or the cold but I kept feeling like little ants were crawling all over me, biting me. I had no warm clothes since I'm coming from Bogota, Colombia and no really good way to bundle up. But I made it through the night and then a nice young portly truck driver took me to Chañaral where I was able to continue my journey.
Today I got picked up by the nicest man in the history of the world. His name was Enrique. I was trying to hitchhike outside a place called Copiapo and thinking I was going to be there for several days without success when Enrique picked me up. He asked me if I had eaten breakfast and when I said no he opened up a mini fridge and took out yoghurt and some granola cookies. Then we stopped by the side of the road and made coffee on his camping stove. Later in the day we stopped for lunch and when I awkwardly told him I didnt have any money he pointed at himself and said, Obviously it's on me. Then later he let me use his iPhone to find a hostel in La Serena and dropped me off two blocks from where I'm typing these very words.
I am now completely broke. It is wondeful. I just spent my last 20 dollars on a hostel here in La Serena, which is a gorgeous little town full of adobe roofed buildings and buganvilleas. Being broke is a scary but liberating experience. Tonight for dinner I plan on having a zucchini with garlic that somewhat left on the free food shelf. And then tomorrow, well, I have no idea where I'll stay.
The hospitality of the Chilean people has been amazing. I can't believe I'm almost to Santiago. And speaking Spanish all day in the trucks and cars of the people who has picked me up has been great, too. Tomorrow I will look for work and keep my fingers crossed. Hopefully it will go well. I know it will.
Today I got picked up by the nicest man in the history of the world. His name was Enrique. I was trying to hitchhike outside a place called Copiapo and thinking I was going to be there for several days without success when Enrique picked me up. He asked me if I had eaten breakfast and when I said no he opened up a mini fridge and took out yoghurt and some granola cookies. Then we stopped by the side of the road and made coffee on his camping stove. Later in the day we stopped for lunch and when I awkwardly told him I didnt have any money he pointed at himself and said, Obviously it's on me. Then later he let me use his iPhone to find a hostel in La Serena and dropped me off two blocks from where I'm typing these very words.
I am now completely broke. It is wondeful. I just spent my last 20 dollars on a hostel here in La Serena, which is a gorgeous little town full of adobe roofed buildings and buganvilleas. Being broke is a scary but liberating experience. Tonight for dinner I plan on having a zucchini with garlic that somewhat left on the free food shelf. And then tomorrow, well, I have no idea where I'll stay.
The hospitality of the Chilean people has been amazing. I can't believe I'm almost to Santiago. And speaking Spanish all day in the trucks and cars of the people who has picked me up has been great, too. Tomorrow I will look for work and keep my fingers crossed. Hopefully it will go well. I know it will.
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