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Valparaiso: Street Art meets UNESCO heritage
Beneath my tree-hugging, nature-gal exterior, there must be an urbanite yearning to break free. That could explain the excited buzz I felt in Valparaiso, Chile, one of the South Pacific’s most...
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Leon Trotsky’s house at Coyoacán
The home-in-exile of the Russian communist notable Leon Trotsky is just a few blocks away from the Casa Azul so of course we had to drop in. I vaguely remembered Trotsky from my political science...
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On the Navimag Ferry Evangelistas from Pto Montt to Pto Natales
Although we had happily been riding the excellent buses everywhere we went in Chile, we came to a place where going further south meant either flying or diverting into Argentina, there being nothing...
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Ashore in Puerto Natales and Torres del Paine
Here not so much for the beauty of the sculpture, which is a religious figure grasping an indigenous figure, but for the setting along the shores of the fjord. As we walked up the street into Puerto...
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The Friendly Whales of San Ignacio Lagoon
February and March are the height of the season for whales in Baja California. They are here, like us snowbirds, for the warmer water, but also (possibly unlike many snowbirds) for birthing and...
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