Tag: Chile
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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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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…
