by Eileen | Jul 22, 2011 | Uncategorized
Where we resume talk of the recent roadtrip. After waking up not once, but twice in Curanipe, we finally headed out into our day. We went back through Pelluhue, where it looks like we might have found better housing and then, having picked up a Germán, a senior in...
by Eileen | Jul 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
They didn’t tell me there would be cows in salt ponds. Oh! What I might have missed. On a recent trip to the coastal (and later, mountain) regions of Región de Maule and BíoBío here in Chile, during which we experienced a kind of dubious signage (photo evidence...
by Eileen | Jul 5, 2011 | Uncategorized
No sabe para donde va la micro, said the short guy to the taller one. I know this because I was sitting in my living room, listening to their conversation, and they were standing on my balcony. I don’t know these guys, yet I know more about them than I ever...
by Eileen | Jun 30, 2011 | Uncategorized
I saw a kid tenderly wipe lemon juice across another kid’s eyelashes today. That’s crazy, all of it. Kids (teenage boys) being tender to each other, that’s just Chile (when they’re not beating the crap out of each other or hurling homophobic...
by Eileen | May 16, 2011 | Uncategorized
It has been far too long since I’ve been up to Glaciar El Morado, a longish walk from a wide spot in the road up in Cajón de Maipo. It’s not fair of me to give directions, since I don’t drive and have never navigated there myself, but I’ve been...
