San Pedro de Atacama, Chile The Atacama Desert: Dry, rocky and brown. How Dry? In some places it is said to have never rained. No matter what the statistics it is widely believed that this is the driest desert on Earth which is dry enough to cause myself to have constant nose bleeds. How rocky [...]
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Cordoba, Argentina It’s been way too long since I’ve caught any waves, sand and sun simultaneously (I think it was last in January). Being so long ago and so close to an ocean in Valparaíso I couldn’t allow this streak continue. Valparaíso itself is no beach town; just a lot of freighters unloading cargo but [...]
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Valparaiso, Chile Chile is the first country I’ve been to that I’m beginning to genuinely dislike. It’s not for any one thing in particular but for many small things that have accumulated over time. Each time I enter this country it feels as if I’m confronted with inconvenience after inconvenience or feel as if I’m [...]
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La Junta, Chile For the last couple of weeks since I’ve been in Chile I’ve been moving along the Carretera Austral. The carretera is the main route from Chile Chico to the northern part of the Aysén region. It’s become a popular spot for Israelis to hitch on their gap year after their military service [...]
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Coyhaique, Chile For now, I’m just waiting around. Still waiting for that ATM card that should arrive any day now. There are far worse places I could be stuck but there are also far better. Early fall is settling into the Aysén Region of Chile making for cold, wet days and colder, wetter nights. The [...]
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Coyhaique, Chile With nothing to do but hang around Cohaique until my ATM card arrives in the mail Alan suggested that we should buy some sleeping bags, get dumped off somewhere near a national reserve and just start hiking. This sounded like a good idea to me so we spent the better part of an [...]
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Coyhaique, Chile It doesn’t take someone with a perfect comprehension of the Spanish language to understand that when an ATM only gives you a receipt saying ‘Tarjeta capturada por orden del emisor.’ that you have been properly screwed. I stood in disbelief that the ATM just ate my card and recounted the 12,000 pesos (about [...]
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