Currently telling the story of my time abroad in Chile. July–December 2025.
Chile #9: San Pedro, Part 2: What I Learned Wandering Around a Desert Town Searching for Blue Takis
September 12, 2025 I can’t explain why, because since coming back to the States, I’ve only had them once, and they truly just were not the same. They lacked a hint of lime, I think, or maybe their strange, almost magical pull only worked when I was on foreign soil. Whatever the reason, during my…
Chile #8: San Pedro, Part 1
I’m going to preface this post by saying that I don’t know what I intended when I began to write about our trip to San Pedro de Atacama, but that the end result was a Word document of 24 single-spaced pages across a dozen or so anecdotes. I’ve struggled with how to best group them…
Chile #7: The Least Exciting World Cup Qualifier of All TIme
Note: I will probably use the terms “soccer” and “football” interchangeably here, to highlight my diverse coalition of domestic and international subscribers (all 21 of you—shoutout to you utter legends). Tuesday, September 9, 2025. Chile vs. Uruguay, World Cup Qualifiers. I was hyped for this game for a multitude of reasons. It was my first…
Chile #6: Pucón, Part 3: Stranded in a Small Town 10 Hours from Santiago (Plus a Run-in With the Law)
After a photography post, you know I’ve got to follow it up with a long piece of writing. This is the story of how I was stranded in a small town ten hours south of Santiago—and also the story of how I almost got into trouble with the law. Our buses back to Santiago were…
Chile #5: Photos of Parque Nacional Huerquehue
I wanted to include our a post about our day at Parque Nacional Huerquehue, but there’s not really a story besides a nice day of hiking, so I’m going to be demo-ing my first post where the main focus is photography instead of writing. Shot on iPhone, so don’t be expecting DSLR wizardry.
Chile #4: Pucón, Part 2: The Time I Almost Scaled an Active Volcano
August 17, 2025: My alarm went off at 4:30 AM. Recently, it’s been Cornfield Chase, the Interstellar soundtrack, so that I can wake up with the sheer thrill of fiery inspiration coursing through my veins, of course. Though with two other people in the small cabin bedroom, I only was able to hear the first…
Chile #3: Pucón, Part 1: Lakes and Sleep Deprivation
Around a month and a half ago (as you can see, I am very behind in my writing, and yet I’m surprised it was only a month and a half ago), I went on a trip with my friends to Pucón, a town in the south of Chile. It was a lovely trip with some…
Chile #2: A Stroll Up Cerro Santa Lucia
I’ve hiked, climbed, ski-lifted, and crampon-ed, if that’s a word, up a lot of hills recently, big and small. What I’ve found is that sometimes a small hill is just as worthwhile as a true mountaineering expedition at altitude, and a lot less expensive and time-consuming, too. Last Saturday, I went with some friends to…
Chile #1: The Introduction, Sort Of
It’s Friday evening, and I’m moving into my house in approximately one hour, and I have a feeling that things are about to, somehow, pick up even more. I haven’t had much time to write, and I’m sure there will be even less of it in the coming days. But I made a promise to…
