Hey all! Sorry about the dearth of posts...I think I just get lazy and am anxious when I sit around a computer cafe for too long. Anyway... So! I checked out Uruguay for a couple of days. I took a catamaran over the Rio de la Plata to a small town called Colonia del Sacramento, that was just beautiful and reminded me of Italy. Nice sunset, cobbled streets, even a lighthouse (although I banged my head pretty badly on the door going up). I ate dinner on the ...

So I have a theory. Chile is a pretty cool country. It has a variety of climates, nice people, good outdoors (Torres del Paine) and it´s doing well economically. Everything is great--except for Santiago. I have a special place in my heart for Santiago, but it´s not what one might call a crown jewel of the country. I was talking to a Chilean in Puerto Natales, and he said that down south, Chileans call it Asciago--A play on the phrase "Que asco...

Hey everyone! A quick update before I get on a really long bus to--you guessed it--Buenos Aires! Sooo...picking up where I left off...we took a bus from Puerto Natales to the quite bigger Chilean town of Punta Arenas, which was nice, but wasn`t really distinctive. Day after that we took this really cool plane (20 seater prop) to the tiny Chilean naval base of Puerto Williams, the southernmost town in the world! I believe the latitude there is around 55.5 degre...