Santiago
Santiago is only a two hour drive from Valparaiso. We never know how its going to be, driving into a city of 5.4 million people. It turned out just fine, we arrived on a Sunday afternoon and found a great … Continued
We are nearing the end of our time in South America. I haven’t posted very often, for many reasons. Often the competition for computer time is high, especially when there is internet access. Often I am very tired at the … Continued
We headed south for 1,000 miles through desert. Our first stop was Humberstone by Iquique, an abandoned saltpeter site and a World Heritage Site (#28). We spent the night and headed to the city of Antofagasta which is down a steep and … Continued
Posted on April 8, 2013 I was just about to work on writing a new blog post, when I realized that I had forgotten to upload the last post I wrote. That leaves nearly a month long gap. For … Continued
Yes, in fact, the Easter Bunny does! The Easter Bunny arrived with chocolate bunnies, baskets and small gifts and clues. Easter morning was spent in the Atacama fog, a thick fog that burns off by midday. In the Atacama, they … Continued
Chile is much nicer than Peru. The first town we went to was Arica, Chile. It was on the coast, and while I was paranoid about tsunamies and the like, I enjoyed it. It was quite pricey, and we were … Continued
The desert – Team DeCorso loves the desert! But even we desert lovers are tiring of the thousands of miles of desert we are traveling through. It is very, very hot here. We are also at a mere 9,000 feet … Continued
March 13 was the scheduled departure from Puno. The night before, we had a sad goodbye with the Grifo folks. Ryan helped them with an English lesson CD on their computer for awhile and we looked through our hard drive … Continued