Chile
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Chile: looks much like Argentina.
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A welcome respite from hostel life: our last few nights...
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Jay, admiring our new digs for the night.
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Best bathroom we've seen on our trip
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Every street in Puerto Natales had a giant ground sloth...
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Riding the bus to Parque Nacional Torres Del Paine. This...
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At the entrance gate to Torres Del Paine, a guanico...
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Our bus stopped so we could gawk at the views. All I...
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One thing was for certain: we were in a very beautiful...
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Tourists marveling at the scenery.
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Jay looks out on Cuernos del Paine, or "Horns of Paine"...
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Jay and John on our $26 20 minute boat ride. Welcome to...
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Torres Del Paine from the boat ride across Lago Pehoe.
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Campground for day 1. They put in boardwalks to help the...
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John setting out to Glacier Gray, not too far from the...
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Beautiful shot of ice encrusted mountains. Looks...
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Jay hiking along.
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Jay, as we walk past a little glacier-carved lake.
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Our first view of Lago Grey with a monstrous iceberg...
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Jay and John. I miss my beard.
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Jay and Lago Grey. This was one massive lake. We hiked...
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Jay hiking along on our first day in the park.
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Jay cresting a hill giving us a good view of Glaciar...
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Jay and Glaciar and Lago Grey.
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The hike was beautiful but you wouldn't believe the...
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The glacier is getting closer!
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Jay hiking along. The wind was strong enough to move...
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Zoomed in shot of the surface of the glacier. Looks like...
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Jay hiking through some wildflowers.
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Bridges across Patagonia: picture for Catherine.
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This is the sort of clouds that form when winds are 150+...
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Bridges across Patagonia. Lago Grey edition. For Catherine.
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Inviting beach. Too bad it's several hundred feet down...
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Self portrait.
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Very interesting geological formation that proves this...
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Cool shot of very high mountains between the clouds.
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Another self portrait.
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Glacially carved valley running parallel to the main watercourse.
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Beautiful colors of stone and ice.
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Yikes! Looks like fun climbing if you like pain.
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The common dandelion. Is there anywhere they don't grow?...
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Pretty meadow with looming mountains in the background.
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I never got tired of watching the clouds whip by these...
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Big icebergs that recently broke off Glaciar Grey.
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John at the end of the road.
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Jay looking at Glaciar Grey.
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What a huge iceberg! Hard to tell from the photo but...
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Surface of Glaciar Grey... zoomed in.
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The Great Southern Patagonian Ice Field. Or, El Campo de...
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John and Jay enjoying a break at the endpoint of our hike.
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Sunlight + ice = pretty colors.
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The way the cloud banks pile up actually remind me of...
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Looking back down valley, toward our campsite on the...
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Jay during the hike back.
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Ice covered mountains.
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Jay tiptoeing around a stream in the trail.
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It's hard to appreciate the scale of these glaciers. We...
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Jay with a classic Patagonia-scape.
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Jay hiking back to camp in the afternoon sunlight.
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All smiles...
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Jay, probably laughing at the wind.
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An attempt to do a candid Abbey Road shot.
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Toward evening some of the torres started to really...
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Zoomed out a bit, to give you an idea how massive these...
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Reminds me of those stock market mountain pictures Dad...
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As the sun sets we get some alpenglow on the mountains.
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With El Cuernos in the background. We will hike pretty...
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Amazing how the rock completely changes color and...
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Our tent in the very close foreground, to put the last...
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One parting shot. Wow, I thought it looked cold in the...
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Waking up early in the morning before Mr. Ranger Bear...
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Packing everything up. I have to say Jay and I did an...
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My pack, ready for the road.
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Jay hiking sans jacket. I was way too cold to go this...
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Jay hiking along Lago Nordenskjold.
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Bridges across Patagonia series for Catherine.
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Jay and I were really hoofing it; we had an ambitious...
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Hiking through the mist.
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At this point, it had actually started to snow. I'm not...
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Jay with snow on his head.
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Then it really started to snow hard!
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Jay was quite a trooper and didn't seem to be...
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And then it really, really started to snow.
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They say in Patagonia you'll see all four seasons in one...
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Jay hiking through the woods. The snow had a very...
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The snow sort of changes to rain.
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Jay with his snow cap on.
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Some fire bush (I think) with snow falling all around.
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Jay's head collecting snow.
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Jay collecting snow on his penguin color schemed backpack.
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This was taken as we were getting close to our camp. I...
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Bridges across Patagonia, for Catherine.
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Good thing there is a bridge across this river.
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Jay on the bridge across the river. It was actually a...
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Jay on the suspension bridge.
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Very secure looking stanchions at the end of the bridge.
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It was rather rickety. I think there was a sign saying...
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Finally, a sign that we have arrived at Campo Italiano....
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After some reconnoitering and deliberating about camp...
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After warming up in the tent for a few hours, we put on...
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A pretty waterfall as we hike northwest up the Valle Del Frances.
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Jay and I use timer mode to pose in front of the cascades.
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Second attempt... Jay was the one who pushed the shutter...
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We had to ford a couple of small streams. We were...
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Jay climbing higher up Valle Del Frances, with Lago...
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The fog clears a little bit allowing us to see the...
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Jay, stop messing up my self portrait. :)
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Very neat looking cascade coursing through deep cut...
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John and cascade.
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Cascading down the mountain.
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Getting our first views of some of the tall torres to...
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Closeup of the same.
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There's a fun off-width crack to climb. Yikes! You could...
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The clouds constantly moved around providing new views...
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Can you spot all the birds? Actually, neither can I. But...
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Jay with Lago Nordenskjold in the background.
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Crazy colors from the glacial fed lakes in the distance....
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Close up shot of the wild colors reflecting off the...
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Bridges across Patagonia series for Catherine.
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The glacier to the west comes into sharper focus as the...
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John and some glacier-covered mountains to the west.
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We had no idea this mountain was towering above us to...
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John and Jay doing another Abbey Road album cover pose.
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Jay going the other way.
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Close up of some epic-looking rock towers.
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From a distance. Hard to appreciate the scale of...
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Park of the larger range.
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With John in the picture.
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John sitting on a log.
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Balancing on a log.
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Jay.
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As we climbed higher, the vegetation grew more sparse...
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Looks like a storm could be moving in. We should hurry up.
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Very pretty stream.
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Jay hiking through a sub-alpine meadow.
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Jay with the Valle Del Frances behind him.
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Strange tree fungus.
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Eventually our trail was completely covered by snow,...
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Jay hiking up, up, up.
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Eventually we get onto dry rock again. I have no idea...
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Stopping at the "top" or as far as we planned to go for...
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Looking like a bearded Emperor Palpatine.
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A family of little clouds wanders into the valley.
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John in Patagonia.
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Me again.
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I guess Jay took a bunch of these.
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Springtime still seems a far way off up here.
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More self portraits.
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I guess I really liked these clouds.
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Jay packing up to head back down the hill.
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Close up of nearby glacier.
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Jay headed back down the hill.
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I really, really liked this tree, and this photo of it.
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Jay and this fantastic looking tree.
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Better shot of mystery fungus.
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Haunted forest.
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John in the haunted forest.
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I miss my beard.
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Jay hiking down Valle Del Frances.
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More creepy dead trees.
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Jay and a glacier.
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Waking up the next morning in our tent. I think it was a...
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The cold got us out of bed early, and it felt great to...
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John hiking with some Cuernos in the background.
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At least two seasons in one photograph.
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Jay ties his shoe.
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Fantastic scenery.
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Jay and Lago Nordenskjold.
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Still can't believe that color!
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We passed many, many hikers on this stretch of the trail.
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It's still pretty cold, despite the sunshine.
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I absolutely adore this lake and cannot possibly show...
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Today was set to be our longest mileage day. I can't...
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Close up of the weird pattern of wind buffeting on the...
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Looking like a mountain man that has been without a...
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What a crazy lake and weather!
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Jay had a bottle of sunscreen that had a top that would...
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Jay on the shore of Lago Nordenskjold.
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Funny how the rock beach had steps from perhaps seasonal...
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John on the shore of Lago Nordenskjold.
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Jay looking at some weather coming in from the West. We...
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Jay and the penguin backpack.
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Beautiful contrast between the green forest and the...
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After a long morning's hike, we arrived at Albergue Los...
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Jay taking a break at Albergue Los Cuernos. I think we...
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Los Cuernos (The Horns) with some fire bush in the...
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We found this sign on the ground. We weren't really sure...
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Jay inspects our trustworthy map. Less of a navigational...
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Bridges Across Patagonia series for Catherine.
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The aforementioned cabañas that rent out for $140 USD...
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Amazing how the rock abruptly changes color (and...
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Headed out from Albergue Los Cuernos for our afternoon...
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Scenery changes again.
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Another self portrait.
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A river rushes down a slickrock stream bed toward Lago...
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Taking a break.
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Jay surveys the road ahead from a small prominence on our path.
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This was mostly what this part of the trail was like:...
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This part of the hike did seem to go on for a long time,...
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Another fire bush.
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Where did this boulder come from? It was as big as a small house.
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Jay, walking through a boulder field.
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Very interesting looking seed pods on the fire bush....
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Hiking through some beautiful country.
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A man sits at the end of a windy path, writing in his...
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Spotting some horses from afar on a different trail....
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Jay packing up after a short snack/rest break.
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Taking a self portrait on the way across to the third...
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Jay and John hiking back uphill into the mountains on...
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First people we had seen in several hours. Basically at...
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Very steep ground below our trail.
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Looking up-canyon along the Rio Ascencio toward our...
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Jay and the Rio Ascencio.
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The trail here was held up by pink sandbags. It was...
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Jay walking along at a brisk pace.
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Gripping a rock over fear of tumbling down?
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We passed a pay campground that had a wind generator and...
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Bridges across Patagonia. This one led to Albergue...
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Tourists, horses, and horse poo. Glad we were under our...
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Pretty soon we were shrouded in thick stands of trees...
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So quite apparently we bombed up the trail without so...
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Our campground contained a ranger station that was in an...
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Happy to have a place to rest our heavy packs.
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The park ranger who lives in this station decorated a...
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So, we picked a campsite, dropped packs and immediately...
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The trail was brutally steep, with hand lines in many places.
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Our very first view of Los Torres as we crested the...
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Very first view of these towers. Hard to appreciate the...
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Close up shot.
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Tried to take a self portrait.
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Jay taking some photos of the towers. It was really...
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Self portrait with two of the three towers. Almost!
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Jay, the towers, and our very last chocolate bar. We ate...
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Jay and Los Torres del Paine.
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John and the three towers.
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Another shot, vertical.
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Some dutch tourists showed up and we managed to ask them...
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It was cold as there was no sunshine left on this side...
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One more shot of the towers as clouds roll in.
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Still having fun with self portraits.
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Back at camp: our tent is the yellow one in the...
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Making dinner. Mac and Cheese if I remember correctly....
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On our last morning in Torres del Paine, we woke up...
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Dandelions. They grow anywhere.
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Hiking back to Campo Chileno.
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Taking a break to use the convenient indoor plumbing,...
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We timed this well! This is the look up the valley...
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Bridge picture for Catherine.
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A cold, blustery morning in Patagonia.
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A cute sign showing our path down from our camp (near...
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A gray, drizzly day.
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Back on flat land, more or less.
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Bridge picture, for Catherine.
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Refugio Las Torres. Or maybe this was the hotel. No idea...
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Back to civilization. Taking a break the gift shop at...
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Bird flying over some scorched earth. Apparently, about...
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Our 5 mile walk back to the bus stop. Maybe we'll see...
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Apparently this entire national park was quite recently...
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Half way through our walk, we spotted an overland...
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Interesting landscape. No guanaco though.
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Catherine, he's a rather impressive bridge for you.
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And an even more impressive one.
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Suspension bridge in middle of nowhere Torres Del Paine...
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Jay on the bridge.
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In case you were wondering.
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Jay crosses the bridge.
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Ha! Catherine, what do you think of this sign?
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In context. Hope you don't miss it!
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Bad condition bridge and good condition bridge. I took...
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Finally! At the bus stop. But not our bus.
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Hanging out at the (thankfully covered) bus stop with...
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Bus ride on the way back to town.
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(Out the bus window) Finally, guanaco!
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Lots of them in fact!
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Back in Puerto Natales. Holga seca. No idea what holga...
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Having accomplished 1-3, we head over to the city's very...
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Having listened to the safety lecture in both Spanish...
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Here is our colorful boat! The rain had not let up one...
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The wind was rather intense as well.
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On board the Navimag ship Evangelistas: our cafeteria...
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Nautical charts of our route.
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Pub / lounge.
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Another orientation video the first night - basically...
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Map of our course for the first day.
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Our crew member guide explains our course. I can't...
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Generally what the ship looked like inside.
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Our bunks! We got upgraded to a private room with 4...
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My bed (top) and Jay's bed (bottom).
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Bar menu on board.
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Pascal and I get a few rounds of pisco sours as well as...
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Be carefull - Strong wind blows!
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The next morning we woke up early (some of us, anyway)...
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Life "raft". I think at some points the water was as...
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Headed for Canal Wide or Angostura White, as it is...
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Pascal photographs the narrow strait ahead.
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Getting closer...
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Getting closer to land (off the starboard side).
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Self portrait.
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Another one.
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About to enter the strait.
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Current flowing through the strait.
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Turbulence near shore where it is relatively shallow. I...
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Passing an island shortly after the strait.
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Leaving the strait behind...
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I went back to my cabin to have a short nap before...
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I decided I was too excited to sleep, so I went back up...
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Here you can see small waterfalls cascading down into...
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Snow-covered peaks looming in the distance. I was...
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Unbelievable granite towers. Even more unbelievable they...
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Jay, surveying the landscape before breakfast.
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Breakfast on board. Yogurt, "bread", some sugar cereal....
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Jay, assuming his resting pose in the pub / lounge. We...
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Jay, in the lounge.
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Jay, looking at a map of the ship.
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List of activities for the day (in English).
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Helicopter landing pad and sun deck. Great for snapping...
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Emergency assembly point icon.
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More beautiful azure waters and green mountains capped...
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We had a GPS system on board hooked up to a PC and...
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Pascal and Jay chat in the dining room over some coffee.
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Jay, back in the lounge. It was pretty nice having so...
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Oversized chess game. Sadly no one wanted to play chess.
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Icebergs floating by us.
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No cargo on our ship: apparently the cargo door fell off...
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Food for the day.
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Jay, surveying the horizons.
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Weather gets a bit rainy as we make a short detour into...
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Closer to the glacier the icebergs get bigger.
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I think every passenger on the ship crowded onto one...
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John, self-portrait.
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More and more icebergs.
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Getting thicker.
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Then we just started sailing into the icebergs.
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Definitely very iceberg-y now.
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The captain's bridge. I hope they know what they are doing.
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Looking back behind us.
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Jay with Glaciar something or other behind us.
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Sailing through lots of icebergs.
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Neat how you can see the dark shadows of the bulk of...
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And then the going really got interesting.
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This really didn't seem so advisable.
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These icebergs had more-or-less frozen together. The...
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Anothher self portrait.
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John and the glacier.
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Icebergs pirouetting past the side of our boat.
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Surface of the glacier.
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People watching the glacier from the top deck.
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Going back to the fjords.
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Beautiful patterns of icebergs.
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Jay, possibly taking a video of icebergs scraping our hull.
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Watching the receding glacier in the rain (in early spring). Sad.
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Big diesel smokestacks at the back of our boat.
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John.
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Heat distortion from the smokestacks.
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Rainbow!
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Spaghetti dinner on board. I think some French guy told...
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Waterfalls on some remote unnamed island at least a...
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Jay, having an afternoon cup of coffee.
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Self portrait with mountains and sunset.
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More waterfalls spilling out of remote alpine lakes fed...
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Watching the (late) sunset from the deck.
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Amazing color this time of day.
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Watching the sunset.
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Self portrait.
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Jay, out to snap a few pics.
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Two bearded mountain men on a boat.
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Can't see waterfalls anymore.
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Pretty much the end of the light. Probably the most...
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The next morning I got up and went out on deck to see...
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Here's the town, which I believe is called Puerto Eden...
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A slightly different view of the town.
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This town is actually located within Bernardo O'Higgins...
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Meal plan for the day.
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And entertainment plan for the day.
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There were a number of dolphins in the bay. Catching one...
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Beautiful cloudy morning. I can't imagine living here....
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More waterfalls! But you can already tell the climate is...
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Zoomed in view of the forest, revealing it is starting...
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On our third day (second full day) aboard the...
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The Capitan Leonidas ran aground on a semi-sunken islet...
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The captain of the ship then filed a rather large...
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The wreck was left in situ, and later the Chilean army...
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Note the large holes that were not created by rust or...
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Someone ought to go hang some jolly rogers from this...
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Beautiful setting.
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More close ups.
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I can't believe all those cable stays are still taught...
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Jay and the ghost ship Capitan Leonidas.
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Another self portrait. After this, we were headed out to...
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Our ship was so cute!
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Strange table-top looking mountain off in the distance.
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Look closely and you may spot an albatross.
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Jay hanging out on the observation deck while we were out at sea.
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Jay and Pascal.
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Albatross! Quite a wingspan.
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I think this is a Petrel, a type of large sea bird with...
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One of our staff members watching the ocean.
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No pictures from the rest of that day... we went out to...
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The weather was getting more temperate, and also wetter.
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Morning photo, wearing the hoodie that was stolen from...
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Zoomed out shot.
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Jay reading a book. It was misty and rainy most of the...
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Misty, rainy. Not too much to see.
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Food for the day.
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Some pretty islands going by in the mist and fog.
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More self portraits.
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Weird looking islands, that sort of look like a pod of...
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Finally a little sunshine. And a rainbow!
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Another view of the rainbow.
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Finally the weather clears a bit, and it turned into a...
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Me again.
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More rainbows.
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Our friend and bunkmate Pascal photographing the rainbow.
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Celebrating the good weather by spending a little time...
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Note the horizon versus the declination of the ship. We...
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More pretty scenery.
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Corpuscular rays!
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We played some sort of modified bingo game on the last...
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Another completely amazing sunset, with my head in the way. D'oh!
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Sunset again without my head in the way.
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Jay, watching the sunset.
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After bingo one of the crew members played the keyboard and sang.
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Then after that there was a party.
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And after that I went to bed.
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When we woke up in the morning, we had to eat a very...
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Putting down the gangplank so we can disembark. These...
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A beautiful morning in Puerto Montt.
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A little fishing village on an island in the harbor in...
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The door our boat was missing (why we didn't have cargo).
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See! No cargo.
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Passengers disembarking.
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Adios, Navimag!
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Valparaiso is a big port city near Santiago. It sort of...
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Neat looking tires with moss. I wonder what they go on...
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Why are there always lines for ATMs in foreign countries?
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Lovers staring at the sea.
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Very large volcano. The landscape was littered with these.
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A ridiculous sandwich. First meal on dry land in four days.
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Jay looking eagerly at my lunch.
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Pretty boat on Lago Llanquihue.
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Curious kitty. Jay and I found out that a day was too...
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View of Puerto Varas from the Mirador.
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Handsome guy. Campaign poster around town. I think he...
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Back in Puerto Montt, we took a 5 minute boat ride to an...
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Our captain.
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Me!
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Our captain romantically enough used oars to ply the...
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Fishing boats on an island in the harbor of Puerto Montt.
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A fishing dingy resting in the low tide waters.
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Very green moss! I like this color a lot.
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Green moss and Puerto Montt in the distance.
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Jay and I took a short hike to the top of the hill in...
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There they go!
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Beautiful view south, from where we arrived on our ship.
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Puerto Montt. At this point, it started to rain, as...
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It also got very windy!
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Banana Numero Dos.
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Jay and I wait at the water taxi stand to go back to the...
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The tide is even lower since we came.
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A lone fisherman in the harbor. Seems like a peaceful,...
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Never until this moment could I quite put my finger on...
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Various seafood for sale at the Santiago Fish Market.
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John at the fish market.
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Fish, with very sharp looking teeth, buried under a pile...
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Fish heads for sale!
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Fish mongers filleting fish. I think the sign said...
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Knife goes in, guts come out.
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Corvina chica for sale. $4/kilo, or $2/pound.
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The designer of this shirt was clearly never very good...
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Jay in some large cathedral downtown.
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It was beautiful to see Santiago in the spring. The...
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Lunch at a neighborhood sandwich counter. Jay with his...
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I actually thought this was vegetarian, and ended up...
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Jay gets a gelato after lunch. Mmm... dulce de leche and...
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John, roaming around central Santiago.
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Mounted police, near the main government complex.
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John with some Chilean leader's statue in the background.
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Statue of Salvador Allende, the populist leader who was...
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This was the weird and unique Santiago taste sensation:...
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Central Chile.... the southern hemisphere's California....
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Jay checking out the skyline from the top of a strange...
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Jay surveying the yonder.
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Two cool kids in Santiago.
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Jay stands in line for a drink. I don't think he got the...
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A statue of some guy, with a castle in the back.
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Our home in Santiago for three nights (or was it just...
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Botero! Everyone's favorite Colombian artist.
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There were elections coming up (don't there always seem...
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This viaduct was one of the most foul waterways I have...
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Riding the funicular to the top of Cerro San Cristobal....
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View of commercial downtown Santiago from the funicular...
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Cerro San Cristobal.
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View from the top of Cerro San Cristobal.
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Zoomed in view of our hostel neighborhood. I guess I was...
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Sports complex of some type?
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San Cristobal I presume?
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Tourist mall at the top of Cerro San Cristobal.
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Virgin Mary, according to Wikipedia.
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View to the east I believe.
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I finally broke down and ordered a mote con huesillos...
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In case you were wondering, mote is boiled wheat berries...
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Portrait on Cerro San Cristobal. I decided instead of...
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Another shot of eastern Santiago. I think there is snow...
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Hats for sale. The Chilean flag and Texan flag are very...
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The other El Trebol, looking far more respectable than...
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Santiago graffiti in the Bellavista neighborhood.
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There are actually a lot of Japanese people living in...
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Jay, waiting for the train at the Metro stop Bellas...
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Chileans riding the subway.
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On Sunday, Jay and I boarded a bus for Valparaiso, about...
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Old electric bus near the bus terminal in Valparaiso,...
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The first order of business was to ride one of...
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Some of these funiculars were basically elevators.
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Bustling port of Valparaiso.
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Unloading a cargo ship.
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View north along the Chilean coast.
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Truck that can load containers onto other trucks.
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Naval ships moored in the harbor.
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These were very large cranes. They basically had an...
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Closeup of the building.
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People enjoying brunch or whatever on the deck of a cruise ship.
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And old car in Valparaiso. Jay is at the left.
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This kitty may have seen better days. Or then again, maybe not.
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John and Jay having wandered off the tourist path,...
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Some interesting street art.
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Jay walking around residential Valparaiso.
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One thing I wanted to do was to see the house of Pablo...
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Today it's a very mixed neighborhood but still affords...
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View from Pablo's living room. The reason why the only...
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Pablo's bathroom. I bent the rules here to show the...
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Pablo's house from the ground-level deck, which now...
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John, at Casa de Pablo Neruda, Valparaiso.
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John, with Pablo's house La Sebastiana in the background.
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Colorful houses along Calle Miguel Angel, I think.
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John with a colorful house. I really liked the way all...
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Like a box of crayons...
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Funky corrugated metal house with a blue car.
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Another interesting looking home.
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Alleyway with trompe l'oeil mural.
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Jay and a hotel with an interesting exterior.
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Another view of the hotel, I think also along Calle Miguel Angel.
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Bougainvillea. Spring in Valparaiso is beautiful!
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Old house with graffiti and crumbling foundation.
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Downtown Valparaiso on a Sunday afternoon.
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Riding another funicular.
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Jay photographing the view from the tiny funicular (had...
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A floating dry dock.
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Closeup. I wonder what happened to the Valparaiso I.
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Beautifully painted houes in one of the more touristy...
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More painted houses. In many ways, Valparaiso was a...
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Even the fire hydrants are painted in pretty colors.
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A church.
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More colorful houses.
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Jay has his photo taken in front of a building with some...
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This is the way the native Patagonian people used to...
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Jay walking the streets of Valparaiso.
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Valparaiso afternoon sky.
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Stopping for a snack at a bakery/cafe.
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Taking many many steps down out of the hills.
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New government center in Valparaiso. Check out that the...
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Back in Santiago on Monday, I drag Jay to a farmer's market.
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This market was vast and represented the bounty of...
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Sleepy time! He looks delicious!
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Mote and huesillos! So you can make your own mote con...
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Lunch at a stall in the market. Simple food, but pretty...
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Ensalada. For some reason I ordered this as a side, and...
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About the best I could do.
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Trying a mysterious fruit with waxy bulbous seeds....
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A thousand peso store! Which is unfortunately more like...
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Piles of knock-off Chuck Taylors, including some...
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John goes on a walk through Parque Quinta Normal, while...
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Chilean drum circle.
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I decided to walk the entire way from Parque Quinta...
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Facade of a 19th century looking building, held in place...
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Government building.
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View through the window of a liquor store. Do they have...
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At long last, even this trip must come to an end. While...
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The sun sets on a fantastic one month trip at Comodoro...
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Good bye sun, good bye South America! Next stop, Miami...