Los Molles and the Northern-ish coast

Hop in your time machine folks because we are going back to August when we took advantage of a long weekend (remember the one Chile gave me for my birthday?) and headed to a tiny beach town about three hours North of Santiago with our friends Estephan and Annie.  I met Annie in my Spanish class back in October of last year, we were instant friends.

Anyway, these guys have a car, so we loaded up early (by Chilean standards... 8 am) and hit the road to avoid the mass exodus from Santiago that happens every long weekend.  We spent a very relaxing weekend in a cabin with a fantastic view exerting only the energy it took to walk along the beach (although admittedly, we walked more than a decent amount before it was said and done) and make ourselves food... and drink wine... I mean, what good Chilean long weekend doesn't include wine.

Mainly, this is to share the beautiful pictures that we came away with.  Since the all-purpose, indestructable unless you lose it in the Andes camera had not yet been replaced, and we were traveling by car, we had our nice camera.  One day was spent a little further North at the small town of Pichidangui, and our last day was spent passing through the fancier towns of Zapallar and Cachagua (where there was a great coastal trail along the rocks that gave us views of a penguin island) on our way home.  Also, August was cold.