Castro harbor at low tide.

Valentine’s Day is the anniversary of our first date. Little did we know then that ten years later Julie would be following me to the ends of the earth. We crossed the Gulf of Corcovado on a seven hour ferry ride that showed a pirated copy of the movie Avatar. Two years ago Chaiten was buried buy mud after a volcano heated up and melted a glacier. The town was evacuated in time so that no one was hurt. The government has decided to move the town and has not restored the power and water systems; but many of the townspeople have no plans to move. (We heard that the day after we left, the town was put on yellow alert due to volcanic activity).

Mud flows buried Chaiten in May, 2008.

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