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Every time I go to the United States, I have the same issue. Sure, I go with one bag inside another, but between the fact that Mamaj is moving, and I’m trying to get my last remaining stuff out of her basement, and the fact that many items are either cheaper or just plain available [...]
This time, coming through Kennedy, unlike the last time, when I came through SFO, I was not interrogated. There was no series of questions asking my age, marital status, whether I had a long-term Chilean mate. The agent, wearing purple latex gloves, found that there were two people with my first and last name coming [...]
There are plusses and minuses to people thinking Santiago is great. On the one hand, um, yeah, we know, we’ve been here for so long, it’s practially part of us (side note later). On the other hand, please don’t muck it up. I like it the way it is (and am surprisingly change-averse).
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