Category: Spring 2020
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To Say Goodbye After All This Time
At our last group gathering of the trip, just hours before some of us had to leave and just hours after some had already gone, Lukas gave a speech. Suddenly, everyone was standing up and saying how grateful they were, in a way that was so authentically them. Lukas told us how we’d all meet…
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Moments
Another archived post that just didn’t feel quite ‘right’ being put out there when I wrote it. Some moments take place in what feel like clusters. Sometimes, like now, we go so long without anything really standing out. Remembering the things that have the power to make us feel most alive is so important in this…
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Chile Reflection
I used to write reflections for each country I visited when I was traveling with Semester at Sea. This is something I wrote just a day or two after getting back to the states, but I never got around to posting it. It didn’t feel right, talking about my time in Chile as such a…
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Patagonia- El Fin del Mundo & The End of a Journey
How quickly we forget the difficulty of a moment when a better one comes along and completely overshadows the former. How easy it is to dismiss a challenge once it is complete, fin. The Journey is the Destination I hiked 16.5 miles over an 8-hour span to get to the base of the towers (torres)…
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Pucón- A Mountain and a Mindset
43. That’s how many days of living in Chile that it took me before I got truly overwhelmed. By the crowds on the metro and then in the bus station and with the heat and the constant busyness of it all. These feelings could not have come at a more appropriate time it felt, after…
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Uruguay- Flashbacks on the Ferry
Colonia Del Sacramento is a little town in Uruguay across the river from Buenos Aires with very distinct Spanish and Portuguese influences. It was the coolest Valentine’s Day I’ve ever had (shoutout to Brenna for being my travel buddy among all the real couples that day.) Arriving to a new country by boat is incredible,…
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Argentina and Adventure
I like to put things in my notes on my phone so I don’t forget the way I’m feeling during certain moments in time and this is one that I wrote as I was about to board my flight to Buenos Aires, Argentina on the thirteenth of February. I realized this morning how excited I…
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Atacama Desert- Discovery and Dunes
I love moments that feel transcendent of time and space. I think that’s why I like planes, and boats, so much. You’re not touching the ground, not really. You’re separate on your own sort of wavelength without time. As I sat on our small plane to the Atacama Desert, the moon was clear and bright…
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The Mountains and a Motorcycle
I found it again. One of those moments that I knew I was going to miss the second it ended, even as I was living it. Riding on the back of a motorcycle, down some mountain in the Andes, with a new Chilean friend as the sunset threw the most incredible pinks and purples across…
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Valparaíso, Viña del Mar, y el Verano
Picture this: a paid-for field trip to the ocean, and sand dunes you didn’t even know existed until the night before, followed by a weekend of partying and exploring the coastal region of Chile. I can’t think of a better second weekend in the country to get to know everyone better, to experience the art…
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Chilling in Chile
Somehow a part of me forgot how it felt to walk into a room and meet new people that would certainly become entwined in a life-changing segment of my existence. How quickly we forget things that we think will always be a fundamental part of us. First encounters, the anticipation of a new adventure in…
