Hi, Aunt Flo

And it wasn't the visitor from South Park.... but the appearance is just as unnerving as the disappearance.

Sometimes the flow of events isn't what you want it to be, and it just comes up and jumps you. This happened in Chaitén. I was there to camp and hike in the controversial Parque Pumalin (and I will give a more detailed discussion of the issues involved in another post). The night I arrived my tent pole snapped, leaving me about as super-homeless as someone who doesn't live in any one place can be. That was a huge downer. And being on the Carretera Austral meant I couldn't get the replacement pieces I needed.