Chile

I arrived in Santiago on December 28 and stayed through January.  My plan was simple: take some time in the gym to continue on the weight loss path I had been on since September in Buenos Aires and take a photography course to improve my photography skills.  Further, I arrived to a small group of […]

I arrived in Lima on Thursday morning and made my way over to my hotel.  I got so little sleep this week due to the crazy schedule of having to get up early almost every morning to either get to/from Machu Picchu, up Machu Picchu or to leave Cusco, that I just crashed in my […]

After getting back from Rapa Nui, I started thinking about what I wanted to do my last week in Santiago. I felt like I had seen most of what I wanted so I figured I would focus on just hanging out with my friends for the last week. In BA, I was just trying to […]

I woke this morning later than I wanted.  I had hoped to go for a quick run on my last morning but it wasn’t meant to be.  I jumped in the shower and had a cold one.  I got one wave of hot water and then it was cold the rest of the shower.  I […]

  I awoke this morning at 6:30 to go for a quick run before the activity of the day began.  The island was absolutely still.  The purr of the ocean played in the background as I made my way through the downtown harbor and toward the restored moai ahus (platforms) not far from the hotel.  […]

Last night I went to a little show put on by the Kari Kari company showcasing the traditional dancing of the Rapa Nui people.  Given the Polynesian roots of the people, the dances and chants were familiar to the styles I saw in Hawaii and in New Zealand.  I typically eschew these types of events, […]

The day finally came.  It was time to head off to Easter Island – one of the world’s most mysterious and revered places on earth.  It is also one of its most remote.  It is approximately halfway between Chile and Tahiti.  So, it’s not the kind of place that you just happen upon. I’ve always […]

The last couple of weeks at school have been more social than anything I had in BA.  Most of that was my fault.  While in BA, I was recovering from the months of prep to get the trip started and leave the US.  And, I was frantically trying to get the site launched.  So, in […]