Chelsea and I ready to leave - Don't be fooled we had 5x the luggage as pictured here.
Parents!
All the family on our send-off
Saying our goodbyes to Des Moines
Palmers
One of Pablo Neruda's three houses in Chile. Its called La Chascona which means crazy-haired lady - named after his mistress lady.
The symbol of la chascona - the sun - is like a crazy-haired lady.
Inside Pablo Neruda's house
Street art in Santiago.
Part of La Chascona
La Chascona again
The view from our first hotel
View from our first hotel
First hotel
The Mapuche are the indigenous people of Chile. This is at the Mapuche cultural center where they did a special ceremony for us.
Los Mapuches
A candle-stick holder made by a potter in Pomaire. He whipped that out in about 1 minute.
Pomaire is famous for their clay pottery. I feel like my mom would want these in her house.
Potter
A group of people from my program (CIEE). There are people here from Iowa, Arkansas, Virginia, Minnesota, Texas, Colorado, California, and Maine to name a few.
Roommates
Cristobal - un amigo chileno
Amigos
Amigos again
Group photo at our going away dinner
Monkeys at the zoo
Sleepy lions
Giraffe licking my hand
La virgen at cerro san cristobal
Santiago
Mountains
Park art
Chelsea and I with her host mom
Asado
Cristal mini-keg
Residencia friends
Milk Carton art in Valparaiso
Box art
New and old parts of a building
Fun streets in Valparaiso
View of a cerro in Valparaiso
Street art in Valparaiso
More street art
SLIDES
OCEAN
Friends
