viva y bien

Just wanted to let you all know i'm alive and má o menos bien. The bus just dropped me from puerto montt (where i came from chiloé) on the side of the freeway outside of Rancagua, about 80km south of Santiago. I'm riding to some hot springs and a national cypress reserve today and then back to Santiago...and then north, I think, for my last few days, to aprovechar el sol y la playa (sun and beach) before I go back to winter in SF.
I'll fill in details later, but it's been a relaxing though challenging week pretty much out of civilization.