I´ll bet you didn´t expect this many blog updates from way down in South America. It just goes to show what a truly small world it has become, I guess. The Internet is everywhere, and we can´t resist using it.
We are in Santiago, finally having left Patagonia behind. I miss the mountains already, though Santiago at first glance (we have only been here for a few hours) is lovely. The weather, at least, is nicer than Buenos Aires. BA was hot and humid. Santiago is dry and cool.
We´ve had a couple days of mostly travel. Yesterday we were met in Torres Del Paine at the catamaran dock and headed down the long road to Punta Arenas. It took from 11:00 until 6:00, stopping only to get some lunch, and then for an hour at the penguin colony an hour outside of town.
This morning we had just enough time to do a little souvenir shopping in Punta Arenas (very little, since we don´t really have room to carry souvenirs), and then hopped on our flight to Santiago.
Tomorrow we see the city, and then tomorrow night we climb on an overnight flight to Atlanta. We get to Atlanta at the ungodly hour of 6 a.m. or something, then finally get back to Houston at 10:30 or so on Wednesday morning.
The end of vacation is hard. Going back to my “real life” always takes some adjustment.
See everyone in Houston soon…
bring me a penguin!