I Am Blogging Now

Hello! This is my first blog. I started this blog because my sister left me in Santiago de Chile today, and I don't yet want to go downstairs and talk to the other travelers about where they've come from and where they´re going, so I´m holing myself up here in a dark corner with a computer and a keyboard that has blank black keys from being typed on so much.

Sister Banana!

Today I just walked around the city all day. It is hot summer here, hot like Boston in the summer. Since arriving in Chile, I´ve been folding up the imaginary map in my mind along the equator, and matching this skinny little country to the California Coast. I don´t know if that would actually work...it´s quite different here - Chile´s top half is a desert.

San Pedro de Atacama: Desert

But the coast, where the Pan American highway meanders along, is a lot like Point Reyes, and down past Santiago, it turns into Northern California, green and lush, with rocky, covey beaches and sea lions (and penguins...just another smelly bird as far as I could tell, though).

Lovely Chiloe

Molly and I saw the penguins and the sea lions when we visited Chiloé, a small island full of myths off the coast of Chile, and basically the point where Chile disintigrates into the Fjords and broken land of North Western Patagonia.

Molly and the Mysterious Green Lagoon

We were intrigued by the legends here, the dwarfs who seduce virgins, the sirens, the weird skin guy who guards the witch cave, who has a leg attached to his face or something like that...we didn´t see any of these people, but we did stay in a town that felt a lot like Vineyard Haven in the winter, very fishy, and went for a long walk through the coastal forest, along a steep muddy horse track and deserted beach.

No one on this beach