After the last three months back at the campo Rukapiwel I am moving on to Argentina to spend some quality time with my mom. We are visiting the National Park Iguazu at the border to Argentina and Paraguay and will then visit Uruguay to sunbath and relax on the atlantic beaches.
These last few months were great. Apart from improving my Spanish we made quite some progress on the campus, setting up electric fences, building a new Chicken-House and cleaning the forest. We also started our first forestation business currently buying dry wood which we pack in bags of about 30kg to sell in the city Osorno and to big vendors down south in Puerto Montt. The goal is to gather sufficient capital and clients to start cutting wood to prepare for next winter. The busniess is currently slow and the natives are a bit difficult to negotiate with, not being used to people contracting more than a few acres of their forestation at a time making them a bit cautious and suspitious. I think with time and a few more conversations they will see the benifits of working with us and we can make the business work. We aren't looking for easy money the work is quite difficult. The forestations here are steep and it is difficult to cut and transport the logs out to to further prepare and sell later. There are lots of forestations here that are neglected on acount of being large and the trees are big enaough to cut and sell.
My focus these next 3 weeks is the vacation with my mother. After that I will visit a friend in Bahia blanca before hitchhiking back to Osorno to work on our Forestation business. I am really looking forward to relaxing and visiting new places as I have been in this region for 5 months now and have become quite acustomed to the life here. Packing up my tent today did bring up some "sad" feelings as I have become attached to my simple camping space.
