The long strange trip has been...

The beginning of a beautiful day in Santiago. They are not all like this, but this is shortly into August just after I had moved into an apartment on Teatinos y Catedral. I'm two blocks from the subway, and five or six blocks from "La Moneda" where the president lives. We can see the hill we plan to hike.


From "Cerro San Cristobal" we get an excellent view of the city on our way up and from the top.

I can smell eucaliptus everywhere and there are flowers blooming. There is a zoo on part of the hill, but today we take the scenic route. The "hill" is quite large and I'd love to snowboard down it, but snow is rare in the city.

The view of and from the virgin... Mary.

The gondola descent...




very cozy...
the beauty of the adventure.