Updated the blog with a Torres Del Paine entry. See a couple of posts back.

We are currently in El Bolson which is a "hippy" town towards the top of Patagonia. Actually it's not far from Puerto Montt, just across the border and Andes range.
After a couple of nights in Ushuaia we took a 12 hour bus trip to Rio Gallegos, followed the next day by a 23 hour bus to El Bolson. Scenery didn't change much over those 35 hours until we got back to the Andes!

There are a lot of things here that remind me of Mullumbimby and the Byron area in Northern NSW; people driving rusty old bombs of cars, the handycraft markets in the centre of town with aging hippies selling arty crap, dirty little kids running wild in the streets.... etc
Pretty relaxed vibe around the place.
There is a large mountain ridge (2300m) above the town and we woke on the first morning to see the top dusted in snow which was pretty. The hostel we are staying in has a nice view from the bedroom window.