Fall Has Arrived in Santiago
While we were away in San Pedro de Atacama, the “Driest Place on Earth”, where it rained buckets and hailed teacups, fall officially and actually ar...
Category: Chile
The Abecedario in English
As someone who has a terrible time pronouncing certain letters in Spanish correctly (all of them), I now take time to remind you that Spanish speakers have a te...
Chilean Spanish: Huaiquimán y Tolosa
Whenever I think I’m getting better at understanding Chilean Spanish, I watch some Chilean television and am reminded that, yo, this stuff is hard. Embedd...
More from the Termas de Valle Colina
Here’s a short video produced by Lucas Wiman of our trip up the Maipo to the Termas de Valle Colina. This gives you a good sense of the what it was like u...
I Felt This One: 6.3 near San Luis, Argentina
This quake felt like someone had given the bed a hard shove, followed by the mild swaying of the apartment building for a minute or two. My wife, who was in the...
Santiago at Dawn
I took the photo above this morning at dawn (Sunday, 7am). I wanted to show you that you can see the Andes before the daily smog cover accumulates. Compare this...
Crane Guy Goes to Work in Santiago
Our apartment is on the 17th floor and we have a great view to the north of the Gran Torre de Santiago, the tallest building in South America. The Torre sits di...
Up the Cajón del Maipo to Termas de Valle de Colina
At first look, the bus that was going to take us up a narrow mountain road into the Andes was not confidence-inspiring. It was an aged, silver Mercedes, a dinge...
International Criminal Mastermind
Or, How I Snuck a Weapon Into La Moneda and Defeated the Carabineros. This past Friday afternoon, our friend Zane managed to wrangle, at great trouble, a tour o...
Earthquake! Viva Chile!
So, this happened on Thursday night, late… I had just climbed into bed, when the closet door banged shut, the bed shook for a few minutes, and it was over...