Back. Feels good...very much like coming home. I returned to Santiago last Friday, and have been spending the last few days decompressing (i.e. doing nothing other than hanging with old friends and listening to some jazz in a very cool club that I didn't know about before). It's felt really good. Not moving, having all my stuff back... Also a bit sad. I still haven't really got my head around the fact that I'm going back to Alaska in about five days. I doub...

So the photo that goes with this entry is from Punta Arenas, not where I am right now, which is in the desert. I´ll have photos up in a few days though, so hang on! But yes, you read that right...back in the motherland! Chile! I crossed the border yesterday, and it almost feels like going home. The conversation in Spanish that I had with the bus driver coming down from the mountains was laced with "po" and "huevón" (some of them sup...

Hey everyone! Funny how I start doing this more as I get closer to the end of my trip. And it really is pretty close--in a little bit more than a week I´ll be back in Santiago, and in two weeks I´ll be on the plane back to Alaska. Somewhat strange to think about, but I´m ready to stop moving around for a bit, as my stay at Rueben´s house told me. Well, I am now in the medium-sized Bolivian town of Oruro right now, waiting for a train tha...

Hey everyone! Still in Bolivia...I really like it here. Beautiful, great culture (the music is incredible) and incredibly cheap. The only thing that I´d change is the quality of the bus system...one can´t have everything, I guess. Sooo...I left Santa Cruz and went up to a really nice little town called Samaipata with a norwegian girl called Nina that I had shared the traumatic Trans-Chaco experience with (we´re bonded for life now). We spent the...

Hey everyone! Finally, a fast-ish internet connection to use... So, a recap! The Iguazú falls were absolutely awesome...Kind of like something from a movie. Actually, as my mom informed me, they´re going to be featured in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (the best premier party of which I will be hosting on my return to the states--get ready!). Didn´t bring my fedora, but the humidity and the butterflies around the huge water...