Chile '25 • Day 1: Santiago, Chile

HEADING DOWN SOUTH!

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TRAVEL DAY

Woohoo , getting the upgrade on Copa was worth it on a flight that leaves after midnight. The seats were super comfortable. Nice! I usually try and bring a couple ‘not too thick’ paperbacks on a trip. I know, you Kindle people are frowning now, but call me old fashioned. Maybe I’ll get one someday, but I already take along enough gear on trips. iPad for photos and blog, phone, camera. I don’t tend to read a lot during a trip though. We are either too busy or too tired to get too many pages in. But the planes and waiting around in airports are great. I started a tradition several trips ago of picking up a Terry Pratchett Disc World novel to read. They are short, don’t require a lot of concentration and are good for a few pages at a time. Witches Abroad is this trip’s title. The opening passages are trip relevant, so will probably add some quotes to  a later

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I also brought along this year’s Classic Book Club novel; My Brilliant Career’ by Miles Franklin. By ‘classic book club’ I mean the failed Russian Book Club the girls and some friends started a couple years ago. I had this idea that maybe a group could muster enough energy to plow through a 1000 page Russian classic if we all encouraged each other on. So we tried Anna Karenina. I’m not sure, but I think I was the only one that finished it;-). So then we tried The Octopus (Frank Norris) and again I may have been the only finisher, I could be wrong on that point. Anyway, the point is that the Russian thing had to be replaced with titles that were shorter. This year’s novel should be a piece of cake!

Back to the blog though! 6.5 hours to Panama, then another 6 to Santiago. So we left at 12:45am and arrived at 9pm same day. Just enough time to grab a nice dinner before getting some rest. Actually, one of the better, ‘it’s late, we’re hungry, we need to find a restaurant, any restaurant’ dinners in memory. Usually we end up with something less than awesome. Austral beer from Patagonia, empanadas! Just right.

Tomorrow we’ll explore Santiago for the day then off to Puerto Veras on Sunday for a couple days before going all the way down to Patagonia.

Future Chile travelers beware, the SGA Forrm - whew! Look it up….I was even worried about declaring my Trader Joe’s Peruvian Inca Corn Nuts for fear of a hefty fine……

Lots of moving around on this trip….and internet may be sketchy in Patagonia, so bare with me.

Nighty Night!