Tag: Santiago
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Chile: Back to Santiago
Arriving back in Santiago felt like something of a homecoming; it was a really nice feeling to be traveling to a city that we were familiar with. Before leaving San Pedro, Becca and I had decided that we wanted to explore a new area, so we settled on Barrio Brasil, picked a hostel from the list in Lonely Planet, and got a taxi. Our driver didn’t speak much English, but insisted on trying to talk with us anyway. After a while, he steered the conversation to American music and then to Whitney Houston. We didn’t think anything of it until,…
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Chile: Santiago
The first twenty-four hours of the trip were about the same as any trip: lots of time spent miserably sitting uncomfortably or waiting in line. We connected through LAX and Panama City and then landed in Santiago on a cool Tuesday evening. After hitting up the currency exchange and securing our baller status with hundreds of thousands of colorful pesos (which I affectionately refered to as “Monopoly money”), we hopped in a cab for downtown. Becca was able to chat up the driver a bit with her Spanish, though we realized later that that poor driver now mistakenly thinks San…
