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Day 20: Goodbye Arequipa / Jul, 10
When you see streets and public plazas that look like these, under fully sunny skies at 70 degrees with no humidity, and you know that the nighttime temperature is going to drop to a cozy 48 degrees, and that you’ll be eating some deliciously rich and cheap meal in between now and then… Well, it’s […]
Day 6: Valparaiso / Jun, 26
High temperature: 62, low temperature: 36 Last summer, Dan and I met a Chilean architect doing a residency in Cleveland. We contacted him before our trip, and although he now lives in Vancouver, Canada, his sister lives in Vina del Mar, the next town up the coast from Valparaiso. The architect put us in touch […]
Day 4: Los Andes / Jun, 24
High temperature: 64, sunny. Low: 34. I was thinking today, during lunch, that we’re traveling in a pretty strange way. We’re in Chile in the winter, and we’re not seeing the things most people see when they come here. And I was feeling kind of funny about that for a minute. I caught myself even […]