The journal entry reads "No breakfast - Makes Chad angry!"
Another town (Santiago, again), another hotel. This time, though, the Holiday Inn at the Santiago airport. Surprisingly, not bad, especially on points :)
The next morning a lovely breakfast of Dunkin' Donuts followed by an early morning flight to Punta Arenas. Then a 2 hour ride in a van (not down by the river) to Puerto Natales. We met our guide for the trek, who ended up being from Turkey. Yep, we're going to be guided through the South American wilderness by a guy from Turkey.
We spent the night in Puerto Natales and ended up in the Hotel Indigo. This is the point where I digress to one of my pet peeves, namely the many different hotels I've visited that can't provide a method to keep the shower from flooding the bathtub. There seem to be several forms of this particular stupidity, namely:
- Shower with no shower curtain. This was relatively common in Asia, and was especially interesting when the shower head was pointed toward the toilet paper
- Shower with shower curtain, but leaking fixture. The second most frustrating form, because clearly they understand the concept of keeping the non-shower parts of the bathroom clean, they're just not doing it
And the most frustrating:
- Shower that has chosen form over function. This is the case at the Hotel Indigo (among other places). The room is small, but has a clean, modern feel. The shower has an overhead fixture, and is enclosed by glass on two sides and the wall of the room on the third. Instead of a curtain or door, though, it is open to the bathroom proper where you step into the shower. Of course when you take your shower lots of water manages to get out onto the bathroom floor. The floor mat provided isn't up to the task and ends up soaked through and through. Finally we end up sacrificing a spare towel just to keep from stepping in the puddle.
Of course tomorrow we start trekking, so maybe I should just be glad to have a shower.
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