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<\/a>The border people told us to shop at a place called Hyper Lider and we needed groceries so we found a camping spot on the beach and headed to Hyper Lider. \u00a0You will never guess what Hyper Lider is. \u00a0Hyper Lider is: WALMART. \u00a0We were unprepared for that. \u00a0We actually had to leave and come back. \u00a0And even then we couldn’t really shop, like with a cart. \u00a0We left with a cake and some chocolate and four bottles of wine. \u00a0Can’t beat that for dinner.<\/p>\n We spent the next few days getting things in order for Chile. \u00a0We needed new sim cards and a new modem and such. \u00a0Chile, we found, is expensive. \u00a0Northern Chile was as expensive as Fairbanks, except for wine, olives, olive oil and things made from olives and grapes. \u00a0Its the Chilean Triple: olives, olive oil and wine. \u00a0A fine bottle of\u00a0Carm\u00e9n\u00e8re wine is $3 USD while a small bag of dry pasta is also $3 USD.<\/p>\n We found the gigantic fruit and vegetable market and did some shopping and we were ready to head out of town!<\/p>\n We do not really know where we are going. \u00a0The farther south we go, the more\u00a0winter-like\u00a0it gets. \u00a0The ferries to Ushuaia have winter schedules starting April 1. \u00a0Ryan now wants to go to Uruguay and Paraguay. \u00a0Argentina began charging $165 visa fee on January 1. \u00a0We have no real plans, except to see penguins. \u00a0We are headed to San Pedro de Atacama for the next few days and then we will see what happens.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We painfully crossed the border into Chile on March 20. \u00a0Chile does not like anything Peruvian so folks have to take everything out of their cars and pass it through an xray machine. \u00a0We laughed (in a crazy way) when we saw this – how long would we be here??! \u00a0But it turns out that… Continue reading Chile!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265],"tags":[351],"class_list":["post-1861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chile","tag-chile","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebluevan.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebluevan.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebluevan.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebluevan.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebluevan.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1861"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebluevan.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1874,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebluevan.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions\/1874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebluevan.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebluevan.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebluevan.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n