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...
by Eileen | Aug 2, 2012 | chile, photography, santiago, Uncategorized
Recent field trips with friends and photography classes have taken me to Santiago’s Recoleta cemetery quite a few times lately. It’s a lovely place, varied and bright, with sections for the well-to-do and regular folk, streaming with flowers and mementos...
by Eileen | Apr 11, 2012 | travel, Uncategorized
I am often asked if I “know all of Chile” or have traveled most of it. Sort of yes and no. I mean, I’ve come in through the tippy top from Peru and been to Arica, which is far, far from home, and yet I’d never been up into the Aconcagua valley,...
by Eileen | Apr 2, 2012 | Uncategorized
You would not believe how many times I got slapped to see these birds. These birds, by the way, are the scarlet ibis, visible in Trinidad and Suriname. These particular birds I saw in Bigi Pan, an Everglades-like (so they say, I’ve never been to the Everglades,...
by Eileen | Feb 17, 2012 | Uncategorized
The first time I said I was planning on going to the Persa Bio Bio (Santiago’s giant, sprawling fleamarket and surrounding stalls near the Franklin metro stop, follow the signs that say “salida a placer” and try not to laugh), the guy I told narrowed...
by Eileen | Feb 6, 2012 | Uncategorized
There’s this moment between when you see the car door start to open and when you actually finally make impact that you think, shit, what’s going to happen here? Then there’s the sprawling, slow-motion fall onto the asphalt and the gasp of the...
