by Eileen | Feb 24, 2008 | Uncategorized
splendor Cargado originalmente por bearshapedsphereWith a 4WD or a car and a lot of patience, and don’t forget the dramamine, you, yes you can rocket up from 500 m above sealevel in downtown Santiago, up to 3200 m in just a couple of hours and 40-plus hairpin...
by Eileen | Feb 15, 2008 | Uncategorized
I know it’s wrong to start from the end, because what people really want is to start from the beginning. But it’s the end of the trip, and it’s the post trip blues/excitement about being home. Today was not my first trip back to the Vega (fruit and...
by Eileen | Dec 19, 2007 | Uncategorized
You would think that the cold weather would inhibit the smelliness factor of say, a penguin colony, or a cormorant rookery, or a flummox of sealions (I made up the last one). You would be wrong. Big stink. Meaty, musky, amonnia-y. The wind shifts and the smell curls...
by Eileen | Dec 10, 2007 | travel
This sentence always trips me up a bit. What is the purpose of your visit? they ask. Which visit? the one to NY? the one to Chile? They say welcome back to New York, when I think they should be saying welcome. I thank them anyway, it’s nice to be welcomed, back...
by Eileen | Oct 5, 2007 | Uncategorized
Why bear-shaped? And why not? I remember that as a child, we were discussing the solar system, and naturally the planet we live on. My first grade teacher, an impossibly pale woman with fuchsia lipstick and an exaggerated limp, was there in the WPA-era built red brick...
