A decent rainfall finally came to Santiago, cleaned the smoggy skies and left us with a striking panoramic view, as even the coastal range is snowcapped.
Though I had spent five months prior in 2009, it wasn’t until my return to Chile on May 21, 2010 that I decided to take a risk and come make a life here. Nothing worked out as my 23-year-old mind had pictured at the time –imagine that!– but as I take a pause and look at where I am now, I realize it all worked out just as it was meant to be. Continue reading Cuatro Años
Yerba Loca Continue reading Monday Memories – Yerba Loca 
Continue reading Monday Memories – Breathe, breathe in the air… 
Chile lindo. Beautiful Chile. Continue reading Reserva Nacional Río de los Cipreses
I LOVE HUASOS… Continue reading Horseback. Andes Mountains. Good People. Yes.
Nothing is better than pulling off the perfect birthday surprise, which Ashley and I did for our lovely Maiten. She had no clue we rented a truck for the day, so you can imagine her surprise when we rolled up in a big ol’ 4×4 Toyota and took her to the middle of the Andes. It was one of those simply perfect days, you know, loading up the truck with a group of friendly hitchhikers, jumping like idiots to all be mid-air when my camera, hanging from the truck door, snapped a picture after a 10-second timer, bathing in hot springs in the midst of snow, driving through a blizzard and arriving back to t-shirt weather…all in a day. Continue reading Happy Birthday Maiten
I don´t know if you knew this, but I just love Santiago. I live in such a cool city! This was taken out of a bus window last Sunday…this is the kind of view I have just riding a bus. Oh the magnificent Andes Mountains!
Well sure, there are far superior views in this city, but since the view in my apartment is that of a concrete wall, this gets me pretty excited. As I mentioned in yesterday´s post, we finally got some rain here, which helped clear some of the smog and left my favorite mountain chain snow-capped. I love, love, love the giant Andes Mountains! And I love Santiago, such a beautiful place to live!
This one is dedicated to my wonderful Aunt Connie, who sadly passed away today, way too young to leave this world. I really had a special place for Connie in my heart, and I’m not going to lie, this one’s a tough one.
I really attribute a lot of my traveling spirit to Connie. With her and my Aunt Peggy I took my first journey abroad to Europe, learned of all her many travels around this big ol’ world and I then knew, that I too would follow in her footsteps. She had the travel bug, and passed that on to me.
And that brings us to now, me in Chile, so far from home, not able to make it back to say goodbye and be with my family. I knew before I moved here that this was inevitable. Death is inevitable. I knew it all, but I’m not going to lie, when it happens, for lack of a better way to say it, it really sucks.
So I go back to a phlog I did not so long ago, which I wrote when two close to me were suffering from loss. Now I find myself in their position…
7/31/10
