More fun camping

So I´m obviously not having any trouble finding internet access, let me bore you with another entry of my travels.
After leaving La Serena at a reasonable hour we arrived in a small fishing village(v.small) called Baha Inglesea. Being the wrong side of summer we had the large camping grounds to ourselves and after a bit of a wander around the small town and a swing and see-saw in the playground there wasn´t much else to do. Some crazy people went for a dip in the ocean, but it was way too cold for me. We had an early start the next morning, leaving at 6am, so it was an early night.
Packing up the tent in the dark we had a 12 hour drive ahead of us, next stop San Pedro. The scenery is pretty consistent, dry dessert and mountains, with little change except for the few glimpses of coastline as we travelled towards the border of Chile, Argentina and Bolivia. So we are still in Chile at the moment, camped in a small grounds in a very dusty town, San Pedro, population of around 4500 we managed to get lost within the town for over an hour, think every single person asked gave us different directions, large bus/truck with limited turning circle, even a police escort for a period there, only to find that the road we were needing was in fact closed because an hour before we arrived they´d stared to seal it and is currently covered in raw tar base! Our option was either walk our gear in(tents, packs etc) or leave and find somewhere to free camp(on the side of the road somewhere) we chose the first option which wasn´t too bad.
Tents up in the dark we then went in search of a meal, though normally dinner would have been cooked by a group with utensils etc from truck we couldn´t bring ourselves to carry all that gear aswell so a large group of us found this beautiful resaurant that did pizza/pasta as well as the more traditional grilled meat. I picked something from the menu which I wasn´t completely sure how it would turn out, I knew it was chicken with chilli and garlic, turned out to be an amazing baked dish with%