Trip: Chile
There are [16] stories from my trip: Chile
CHILE | Thursday, 28 Jun 2007 | Views [4801] | Comments [5]
I recently had the opportunity to tour Villa Grimaldi, which was once a torture camp during the early years of Pinochet's dictatorship. Our guide, Pedro Matta, was imprisoned and tortured there as a 23 year-old politically active college student. ... Read more >
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CHILE | Tuesday, 5 Jun 2007 | Photo Gallery
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CHILE | Wednesday, 30 May 2007 | Views [3119] | Comments [1]
My week long trip to Easter Island began with the appropriate apparel: adventure clothes. You know...extra-heavy-duty-gortex hiking boots, fannypacks, cowboy hats, and camoufloge bandanas, all of which feature super-duper-quick-dry technology. My travel ... Read more >
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CHILE | Friday, 25 May 2007 | Views [1451]
Maybe you've heard of Transantiago. It's a new citywide bus/metro system that has recently been put into place. It has had so many flukes that supposedly it even made the national news in the US of A! I won't bore you with the details, but here is ... Read more >
Tags: chile, planes trains & automobiles, trains & automobiles
CHILE | Thursday, 24 May 2007 | Views [989]
Classes at La Catolica are going ok. I've had a hard time getting excited about my classes this semester, which is weird for me because normally I'm enthusiastic about my classes at least at the beginning of the semester. My Chilean Anthropology class ... Read more >
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CHILE | Friday, 18 May 2007 | Photo Gallery
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CHILE | Thursday, 10 May 2007 | Photo Gallery
Torres del Paine, Puerto Natales, Punto Arenas
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CHILE | Tuesday, 8 May 2007 | Photo Gallery
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CHILE | Tuesday, 8 May 2007 | Photo Gallery
Valpo, Viña, and some Isla Negra
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CHILE | Tuesday, 8 May 2007 | Photo Gallery
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CHILE | Monday, 7 May 2007 | Photo Gallery
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CHILE | Monday, 7 May 2007 | Views [1379]
It's true. I have been elected as the president of a secret society within Casa Holanda: La Sociedad No Panameña (Non-Panamanian Society). As you may or may not remember from my last update, I am living in a house with 75 people, 50 of whom are Panamanian.... Read more >
Tags: chile, people
ECUADOR | Tuesday, 1 May 2007 | Photo Gallery
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ECUADOR | Tuesday, 1 May 2007 | Photo Gallery
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ECUADOR | Sunday, 29 Apr 2007 | Photo Gallery
Highlights from my semester in Quito.
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CHILE | Tuesday, 6 Mar 2007 | Views [1391]
So I bet that you didn't know that Chileans worship Tom Jones. He was one of several artists invited to the annual Viña del Mar music festival this year, along with Ricky Martin, Bryan Adams, Oreja de Van Gogh, and others. The women here think he's ... Read more >
Tags: chile, getting settled, tom jones
