The Plotniks Dodge the Earthquake

Thanks everyone for worrying, but when the gigantic earthquake hit Santiago last night, The Great Plotnik and Great Ducknik were sound asleep in Puerto Natales, some thousand or fifteen hundred miles away. There were a lot of dogs barking during the night, but two nights past, when the Plots had stayed in this same hostel dogs had been barking all night too. Around 4am the dogs stopped barking, which was pretty much when the earthquake hit Santiago, but you'd have to be asking a lot to connect any of those dots.

There is no TV where Plot and Duck are, in the Aubergo Buenos Aires in El Calafate, Argentina, a dusty overgrown nothing town that is bursting with trekkers and trekking companies and has none of the charm of Puerto Natales, but it appears that the quake was not centered in Santiago, but in Concepcion, some distance away. On the grainy TV at the Border Patrol on the Argentine border, as we waited in the long line of people officially exiting Chile (story to follow), the TV was showing news reports from breathless reporters showing the same footage over and over again, but some of it looked like it might have been downtown where the Ciudad de Vitoria Hotel is and where Plot and Duck stayed for a week.

Anyway: we're fine. We've got an internet connection and tonight Plot will start posting some fun stuff from past days. Thanks to The Great PD for being worried and I do hope someone has phoned Mummy P.