stronger legs and heading towards Patagonia

Biking is fun but it makes you very tired so we have been taking it a bit slower the last week.
We stayed in Dalqahue for 3 days in a camping with a nice old couple. This is also where we met our first other tourbiker, Jairo from Colombia. A very hippie guy that was selling homemade necklaces and earrings to pay for his trip. He recomended us to a place in Chonchi so we continued our ride there and had a nice day with sunshine and only 40km.

In Chonchi we met the best man so far on this trip and Marco felled a little bit in love, Juan-Carlo! He kind of had a camping that was pretty much just his garden. The bathroom and kitchen we shared with him in his house. He lived very simpel with only cold water and the only kind of heating was a big stove in the middle of the biggeroom where we sat and had nice conversations. To clean was probably not his favourite thing to do but with only cold water in the shower we we´re not that clean neither. We camped in the garden for one night but then when it started raining the second day we moved in to one of his rooms and stayed on some matresses. He told us he don't fix up the garden to much cuz he likes when people come in to the house to eat and hang out.
Juan-Carlo cooked some traditional seaweed soup and gave us so much joy just hanging around his house and his happy face. He is 55 years old and likes to works sometimes but not to much. He had a really tranqiullo attitude to life. He has travellers coming to him all year around and I think they come there surely only because he has so much hospitality. He puts pictures of all people who stayed with him on his wall.

Today we got upp early and pedal 70km up and down and up and down and I think Marco already misses Juan-Carlo alot maybe he was a bit of a substitute to Petter at home. It was a strange day cuz it rained, it hailed, it was warm with sunshine and windy. We went through all types of weathers but finally we arrived in Quellon. We feel stronger and I think our legs and asses are starting to get use to this new activity. Now we are trying to spend our time here in this ugly, boring town. The people seems nice though and Marco is talking and talking to everyone he sees, all excited with this new language spanish. I do some kind of mix with my italian and some spanish and some understand me and some not at all but then you can always just smile.

We still eat almost every night pasta, tomatoesauce and cheese. Lunch is choclates and bread with mayo. I love that I just eat anything cuz with all this biking who can get fat?!
The dogs is still a problem but I am starting to get use to them and we are still trying this new talking to them instead of run away thing. It works on some of the dogs.
What I miss so far is a glass of milk strangely enough.

Otherwise we feel very happy!

It is going to be fun to start riding carreterra austral!