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Still haven’t managed to get them in order so here goes anyway

This is one of the biggest volcano is in Chile called Osorno volcano

This is a volcano that evidently blew up in 2015, according to one of the locals, hence no top

While I was ordering breakfast at the roadside stand out came these three alpacas but they were kind of shy so I couldn’t get too close to him, but it was awesome to see him up close since I’ve never seen one that goes before

The best restaurant view ever in my experience, Osorno volcano, right outside the dining area

Another shot of the lake and the blown up volcano

As I got closer to the Osorno volcano, I kept pulling over to get shots with my camera because it was getting more visible and the details are much better

Roadside blackberries that are finally coming right I did try one and it was pretty good so looking forward to tasting more along the road as I head north

There are so many opportunities to eat raspberries or blackberries it. I’m sure I’ll be sick of them by the end of the trip. No, not really I love raspberries and blackberries.

Another alpaca picture

Smoke coming out the top

Just a nice river

Another first for me, seeing a whole line of weeping willows

My room two nights ago, came with a cat who is very friendly, but walked all over everything so I had to shut him out of the room when I went to bed

A local riding by on a horse

He wanted 240 bucks for this cowhide and even if I wanted it I still didn’t have any room

The room with the cat had no freaking curtains, except for like a 6 inch strip along the top there, so I took out my clothes pins, which I brought with me and pinned up a blanket from the other bedroom

Lots of beaches along this lake and many people were swimming. I didn’t stop, so I don’t know if the water is cold or not.

A long walk down to the river below but people are swimming down there so I guess it was worth it

A real cattle round up 

there is about a quarter mile long line of cows all walking along this one trail but I didn’t see anybody herding them

Not hot for me, but every place I saw a big group of cows they were like this all sitting in a big, concentrated group usually in the shade although this group isn’t but very few of them are standing up the ones that are only got 

up because I just showed up

Triple cow statues in the middle of town in front of the bank

You can see how thick the berry bushes are alongside the road

This is a picture from tonight’s hotel and I thought a really wide river but pretty shallow and you  can see he’s standing in water on basically shin deep 

before I took the picture, he was actually pushing the boat along. I guess it was a Sand bar or something and then later, I saw him out further out fishing

Another weeping willow forest

Went off the road leading to Osorno volcano a couple of miles took this picture and then turned around because I was getting low on gas

At the alpaca place this guy was making bread in a homemade cement oven. I already bought a couple breads they were like 45 single record this for you older people out there but when I saw him take the fresh ones out, I asked him to trade them for the warm ones so I had a couple of warm ones and they were really good especially with the homemade raspberry jam I bought from him 

Their version of Walmart is called Leader LIDER and they actually have a Barbwire fence around the place

This is from the other side before I went around to go up to the volcano Road and you can see just how close it is to the lake

This is a bag of some kind of tree fruit like nuts but he said it wasn’t a nut so I will have to try and identify it later when I get home

Now this guy is a traveler he blew up the pic you can see he drove his bike down from Colombia, which is definitely a hike

Have seen a number of adventure, bikes, on the road, but not very many considering

As spotty as the Wi-Fi and phone service is at least most places have it

 did go to a cabana or cabin that had none but I’m not so attached to it I can’t live without it for a day fortunately

most common signs that I’ve seen and there are a lot of them are ”truck entrance and exit” for all the login trucks that are here, cabanas, which means cottages or cabins, and don’t throw garbage even though a lot of the countryside is trashed

 More graffiti here than any country I’ve ever seen, if there’s a surface to cover somebody has painted it

Every fruit and vegetable imaginable in this country is apparently ripening right now, because there are fruit and veggies stalls alongside the road everywhere

Every fruit and vegetable imaginable in this country is apparently ripening right now, because there are fruit and veggie stalls alongside the road everywhere

Everyone here is super friendly and helpful. Even had a cop try to find the Hotel in my phone died just before I got to town.

Everyone here is super friendly and helpful. Even had a cop try to find the Hotel in my phone died just before I got to town.

Last night I spent at a casino hotel, which turned out to be very nice and not cheap but after looking around, this appeared to be the best bet