We stopped at Los Queñes in the foothills of the Andes close to the confluence of the Teno and Claro (0ne of many Claros) Rivers. We met one of the Cascade Raft and Kayak legends, Todd Erickson, and one of the guides from a couple of years ago who still remembered my name and that I was the monkey who cleaned the kitchen... Some of the guys ran the Teno, and the rest of us went to town!!Town consists of a couple shops, a road construction site in front of the fortress-like bakery (reputedly the center of the resistance against Argentina during their war over the border), a few houses, and a pizzeria. We decided to get a couple of pizzas...we ordered the basic pepperoni and basic cheese. Let's just say that behind Flying Pie Pizza in Boise, ID (nothing can beat Flying Pie), this random pizzeria in a remote town in the foothills of the Andes in Chile is in a close third place for best pizza ever. Admittedly, it may have something to do with being starving, but I think it was more than that. The cheese pizza was surprisingly really good (it takes a lot to make cheese pizza exceptional), and the "basic" pepperoni…yeah. It had toppings galore (miniature pickles too!) with local sausage slices rather than just classic pepperoni, and it was really good too!
Later there was a pretty awesome ping-pong tournament. Some were really good (Nico & Coleman), others were really quite good (Teague), and yet others provided plain good entertainment to watch (me).
Dinner (the actual dinner) had an awesome twist too. Take the basic hamburger (the first we'd had since we were in the States) and add guacamole. Apparently there are guacamole burgers here, I just hadn't had one before. It was really good. Yet another addition to the creation of my perfect hamburger…bacon-cheese-burger-with-guacamole…
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