Memories...already


So I only have three weeks left...where did the time go??? I'm suddenly finding myself trying to cram in as much as possible. And yet at the same time, I can only think of a few times when I wasn't already doing that...I've done so much since I arrived here, and somehow I still feel like I haven't done much of anything at all. But all I have to do is go through my photos and I can see how far I've come in just four short months...

Speaking of memories, I thought this would be a good time to share something I wrote while in Chiloe. At a small restaurant in the city of Quemchi (recommended by my trusty guide book) Mark and I were asked to sign a sort of guest book during our visit. We were given a large notebook, almost completely filled with comments and stories from other travelers. Being as nosy as I am, I flipped through the book and read other entries before contributing myself. I wrote down a few of my favorites...enjoy the smattering of international humor...(I've left out the names just out of some weird respect that I feel I should have...)


Muchas thank you for the delicious food. Keep your secret sauce a secreto! ~canada


We're vegetarians. We had to pass on the 5 different types of fish, but the cheese empanadas and bowl of soup were more than we deserved at the hands of Andres, the Great Fellow! ~Toronto, Bridge, Canada


los tres B's
1 bueno
2 bonito
3 bundante
4 barato
~flo
**number four was added by a later traveler...


Buscando un sueno, el de la madre acumcaudome, llegare a la isla... Cuantos recuerdos pueden guardar los geues? Brujos y frutas exoticas formaron parte de mi alma...mariscos y paps formaron mi cuerpo...hijo de la isla us por nacimiento...por aucentro obvidador que vuelven a mi en suenos... ~la bruja bahamonde


5 cervezas, totos differentes y 1. 2. 3. 4. 5...6 empanadas y dos muy grande y bonito salmones. - muchas gracias por la ambiante muy bonita, antes de salir de esta isla verde! ~ francia, rouen et lille


"Yes! We have empanadas, we have empanadas today!" Except we didn't. We had salmon and chips. ~Egor


This was the best place ever. I loved the salmon and sea bass -and the pisco sours, of course. Here at the end of the world where the sky cuves down to the earth and plants are textured, formed and made by a perfectly impossible evolution completely indifferent to us and our concerns shaping by its temperatures, climate, and atmopshere, all living life and making real possible and minfest the unimagineable!



That last one will really test your english punctuation skills...they managed to not only forget to sign their entry, but they also forgot to put in any forms of punctuation...

For a bit of imagery to go with this entry, here's more of the pictures I took in the National Park...