by Eileen | Dec 31, 2012 | memoir, meta, travel
At the risk of waxing too personal (but not that kind of waxing), I want to tell you about the person you see in this picture. She is terrified. She is uninformed, ill-prepared, and, not speaking the language, practically mute. And in this picture, she is taking a...
by Eileen | Dec 26, 2012 | chile, language, travel
¡Fuera! is what you shout at a dog (if you don’t shout ¡Sale!) when you want him to go outside. Fuera (no exclamation points) is also what we say when it turns out you aren’t, or won’t be where you normally are. BTW, this is about fuera, which is...
by Eileen | Nov 22, 2012 | chile, train, travel
Sorry about the lack of posts, I went to Chile for a few days. What? Don’t I live in Chile? Well, kind of. I mean, I live in the largest city, within 100 miles of more half the population of the country. When I think of Chile, I think of Santiago. But it’s...
by Eileen | Sep 5, 2012 | photography, travel
Typical breakfast in Costa Rica Ever since an 8.8 earthquake hit Chile in February, 2010, I take earthquakes very personally. Were the people afraid? Did it roar and shake, and did the water splash in the sink and did the roof fall in and did your favorite tree just...
by Eileen | Aug 27, 2012 | art, chile, santiago, travel
For reasons I’ll divulge sometime, but not now, I’ve recently been thinking a lot about places tourists don’t go, but should, in Santiago. Should in the sense that they’d see a part of Santiago that’s not packaged and presented and...
by Eileen | Aug 20, 2012 | travel, Uncategorized
I have been in two places at once, or actually four places at once this last month. According to my blog, I’m in Chile, Santiago or La Serena or somewhere else. But in actual fact, I was a few thousand km away, first in Medellín, and then in Bogotá, and then...