Post Navimag, and post Torres del Paine, we were ready for a down day. In travelers terms, this consists of a day filled with doing laundry, catching up on email, and enjoying the relative luxury of a private bathroom and a meal that doesn’t come from a bag, box or can. Nothing like clean underwear [...]
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Patagonia, in brief (for me that is)
Posted in Chile, Thoughts from the road on January 20, 2010 | 15 Comments »
Towers of Pain
Posted in Chile, Post Cards, Things we like on January 12, 2010 | 7 Comments »
This is another long one. For those of you with limited time… just check out the 2 minute video review of our trip below. For those of you looking to burn a little more time, watch the video AND keep reading. . The day we landed in Puerto Natalas off the Navimag, we decided to [...]
A Few Adventures in Pucon
Posted in Chile, Things we like on January 6, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Catching Up: December 16 – 20th, 2009 Chile has been full of surprises. The Spanish here is wacky. You can drink the water without getting sick. The indigenous Andean culture that I took for granted as a way of South American life up north is no where to be seen here. And, there are so [...]
A Navimag Christmas
Posted in Chile, Post Cards, Things we like on January 6, 2010 | 10 Comments »
You know a blog post is going to be good when it starts out with pictures of me eating Chicken McNuggets, on Christmas morning no less. We arrived on Christmas morning to the Navimag office (along with about 200 other folks) promptly at 10am. We checking in our bags and then learned that we had [...]
For the record…
Posted in Chile, Thoughts from the road on January 6, 2010 | 5 Comments »
I´ve got a boat load of blog posts written and ready to go. I know some of you (ahem… Mom) are chomping at the bit for a little mid-day diversion via Out Of Office Messages, and I´d love nothing more than to oblidge. Sadly I can´t post them due to weird bandwidth problems and sharing [...]
Hoy es Navidad
Posted in Chile, Food, Post Cards, Snark, Things we like on December 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Well friends, I’m starting to write this at exactly 12:01am on Christmas morning… so I can officially wish you all Feliz Navidad! Just imagine this as our xmas card to you. If you want, you can even print it out and put our lovely mugs on your fridge. Hope this note finds you with friends and [...]
Pity da Foo
Posted in Chile, Snark on December 22, 2009 | 4 Comments »
You know you’ve been reticent in writing when you get the smack down via Google chat from your usually cool-as-a-cuke sister-in-law. Ok, already!!! I get it. I’ll be watching you! (Note: Do these eyes look suspiciously blue to anyone else?) By way of explanation (excuses, excuses, I know), I always have the best intentions to write. I wake up in [...]
Four Hellos and a Goodbye
Posted in Chile, Food, Gratitude Lists, Post Cards, Things we like on December 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
1. Guess who just ate her first completo? Me. Hello, hot dog (covered with guacamole, bacon and mayo)! 2. Guess who just saw New Moon? Me. Heeeeeeeeeeellooooooooooooo, Jacob! 3. Guess who just saw her first Christmas decor / heard her first Christmas songs? Me. Hello, Jingle Bells! 4. Guess who just tried [...]
