Be Jealous...

Vina Del Mar


Santa Rita Vineyard


Me at Vina Del Mar Beach w/ view of Valpo

2/23/2008 11:36:09 PM

my gf made some killer chile the other night ... chili

2/23/2008 11:37:17 PM

damn i am looking good in that red shirt...

2/23/2008 11:37:39 PM

hahha awesome, i got that first pic as a postcard, no shit

2/23/2008 11:39:49 PM

a friend of mine is moving to santiago. holla at a free place to stay

2/23/2008 11:40:28 PM

:jealous:

2/23/2008 11:40:41 PM

^^ HOLLA!

I'd love to go back to Santiago... the place was so chill. Everybody stops on the way home and drinks at the sidewalk bars.

2/23/2008 11:43:16 PM

2/23/2008 11:44:52 PM

not jealous

2/23/2008 11:46:30 PM

We used to make turkey chili all the time back in college.

2/23/2008 11:48:06 PM

wow, that looks pretty cool, its funny how no one thinks of south america as a getaway vaction spot

2/23/2008 11:48:09 PM

it probably that their currency is worth more than ours now

2/23/2008 11:53:58 PM

it is?

2/23/2008 11:55:53 PM

uh no.

2/24/2008 12:06:51 AM

we were getting about 460 pesos per dollar

2/24/2008 12:09:58 AM

is the beer like 25 cents? i dunno how many pesos that would be

2/24/2008 12:12:32 AM

not quite that cheap but it was pretty good prices down there

2/24/2008 12:16:51 AM

ADD TO MY WISHLIST

2/24/2008 12:18:48 AM

i think if i went there i'd try to dress like a local, so i dont get ripped off
man i need a vacation

2/24/2008 12:20:30 AM

any country that will take us currency always rips you off. haha. i havent done much out of country travelling. just a cruise around the caribbean and a few trips across the mexican border by foot. but i think from now on, i'll always make sure to bring the right currency. just to be sure. either that or get some thing for my cell phone to let me know if im getting ripped

2/24/2008 12:20:34 AM

and ps - PERU is the spot in south america. i always remember my spanish teacher talking about like 9 million people right on the beach. plus it seems like one of my girlfriends had family there and said it was totally baller down there

2/24/2008 12:21:42 AM

^^yeah, you gotta know what stuff is supposed to cost down there
i once gave $10 US to a begger, i later found out thats like a years salary

2/24/2008 12:26:34 AM

its funny cause they always ask for just the us bills. never the coins

so somehow in other countries the usd always converts evenly. yea right you fuckin mexican!!11

2/24/2008 12:29:57 AM

bttt cause im going in two weeks.

ill be in santiago mostly. anything i should definately check out?

5/9/2008 10:17:18 AM

i'm not jealous...i was there last year around this time

i'd like to go back, though

^ skip santiago and spend all your time backbacking the andes

[Edited on May 9, 2008 at 10:24 AM. Reason : .]

5/9/2008 10:23:38 AM

pics dont work

5/9/2008 10:23:54 AM

^^we'll be doing a day trip to the andes, wine country, and the coast, but im going to for a business school class, so we'll mainly be visiting local companies in the area and learning about their strategies.

ill have some free time, but not enough to go on extended trips away from santiago.

5/9/2008 10:28:40 AM

we bought some amazing wines from tierra y fuego (IIRC)...i can't remember how close that is to santiago, though

5/9/2008 10:29:31 AM

you said you went last year around this time.....did it get cold enough to need a jacket?

id rather not take up the space to bring one.

i looked at temp data but it looks like it can be all over the place this time of year.

[Edited on May 9, 2008 at 10:38 AM. Reason : d]

5/9/2008 10:37:39 AM

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"pics dont work"

5/9/2008 10:38:30 AM

^^ we were largely in pucon (near concepcion, a bit south of santiago) for most of it...i never donned pants (just shorts), but i brought a wind breaker/rain jacket since the andes are a rain forest and it got a bit cool

you shouldn't need anything heavy, just something to keep the wind at bay on cooler mornings and evenings

5/9/2008 10:51:44 AM

jealous!

5/9/2008 10:58:57 AM

and try a pisco sour!

i love that stuff...brought back a bottle, though i bought it before i found out i could have gotten it cheaper in the tax-free stores

5/9/2008 11:02:47 AM

cool...i read about that drink.

i saw a Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern about a month ago when he was in chile. i cant wait to try some of the food.

5/9/2008 11:03:54 AM

so did you eat a "completo" when you were there?

5/9/2008 11:05:57 AM

I'm going in October.

5/9/2008 11:06:01 AM

^^^ yeah, depending where you get it made, try to ignore the egg whites (it's good, though, i swear!)

^^ haha, yes...'twas a bit messy, but good

^ it's a gorgeous country...i'm much more of a nature nut than a city tourist, but both were really awesome...i've never been to the pacific northwest, but i understand that chile is very similar

5/9/2008 11:10:36 AM

speaking of chile...i just saw this. maybe old, i dont know.

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"Amazing pictures: The lightning storm that engulfed an erupting volcano By MICHAEL HANLON - More by this author » Few sights in nature can compare to the sheer magnificence of a volcano erupting in full flow. But while scenes of molten lava are relatively commonplace, this otherworldly picture of Chaiten Volcano in southern Chile shows a truly spectacular, and devastating, volcanic phenomenon. As clouds of toxic ash and dust tower into the sky, they ionise the air, generating an explosive electrical storm. Colossal forks of lightning spark around the noxious plume as it spews from the volcano's crater, creating an image of raw, terrifying energy - as if the air itself were ablaze. Now, the worst-case scenario is the collapse of the volcano accompanied by a "pyroclastic flow" - a devastating super-eruption of scorching dense gas and molten rock that would roll down the mountainside at 100mph or faster, incinerating and flattening all in its wake. Thankfully, experts think this is unlikely at this stage. Pyroclastic flows are also called nuees ardentes - or "burning clouds" - and are probably the single most destructive weapon in nature's armoury, capable of flattening cities in seconds. It was such a catastrophe that destroyed the Roman town of Pompeii in AD79. The 3,300 ft Chaiten Volcano, 800 miles south of the Chilean capital Santiago, is erupting for the first time in thousands of years, sending a plume of ash into the sky that stretches as far as Argentina. It is also spewing out chunks of lava and hot rock. Authorities have already evacuated around 4,200 people from the town of Chaiten, six miles from the volcano, but 300 civilians and troops remain and are being evacuated now. Rescue is complicated by the fact that southern Chile is fragmented by fjords and access is often difficult. The authorities are also evacuating a second town, Futaleufu. Some of Futaleufu's 1,000 or so residents had already crossed into neighbouring Argentina, where some areas have been showered with ash and where authorities last week closed schools and treated some for breathing problems. The ash is more than six inches (15 cm) thick in places, and has contaminated water supplies. Chile, which sits right on the Pacific's volcanic "ring of fire", has the world's second most active string of volcanoes behind Indonesia. "

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=563975&in_page_id=1766&ito=1490

5/9/2008 11:11:09 AM

holy carp, that's amazing

5/9/2008 11:12:04 AM

yeh, that's a 10/10 photo. sort of like last night

5/9/2008 11:14:03 AM

Wow... that is amazing! The lightning looks all confused in the first pic!

5/9/2008 11:28:03 AM

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"i've never been to the pacific northwest, but i understand that chile is very similar"

The part of Chile I'll be seeing (Arica) is a desert.

5/9/2008 11:29:55 AM

these look like crap because i'm pulling them from facebook...nothing spectacular, but andes pics are towards the bottom





























horses are free-roaming on the coast...in fact, all around concepcion (including the highways)


this is where we stayed for the latter part of our trip

5/9/2008 11:38:28 AM

nice pictures.

did you bring any wine back with you? if i find something i really like, i may try to get some cases mailed back home.

[Edited on May 9, 2008 at 11:52 AM. Reason : d]

5/9/2008 11:51:49 AM

i did indeed bring back wine...4 bottles of red, 3 whites, and a bottle of pisco

i just made sure my bag was light enough to not have to pay extra, and then wrapped them in my clothes and brought them back in my checked bag

[Edited on May 9, 2008 at 12:39 PM. Reason : .]

5/9/2008 12:37:42 PM

definately cruise downtown and have an Escudo on the sidewalk

5/9/2008 1:42:44 PM

ill be staying downtown....what is an escudo?

ah, its a beer.

[Edited on May 9, 2008 at 1:50 PM. Reason : nm]

5/9/2008 1:48:36 PM

5/9/2008 1:54:06 PM

cerveza!

5/9/2008 1:54:19 PM

Did you get an Awesome Blosom?

5/9/2008 3:20:39 PM