El Universo Alterno

I don't know how people keep up travel blogs. In my 2 weeks of vacation I barely had any time or internet access to even attempt to write about my activities, and now that it is all over it is dificult and a bit frustrating to try to "sum up" my experiences. Where to begin? Do I write about actions or feelings? How many photos do I post, or do I link to my whole album? Quien sabe.

Not that my life in Santiago has been all that "real", but I definitely felt like I was living in an alternate universe while on vacation. In San Pedro, because although we were still in Chile the landscape was extraterrestrial and our hotel-mates came from all over the world. In Costa Rica, because although we were still in Latin America everyone in the shops spoke English and the billboards advertising real estate could have been placed in California.

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ok, after some time spent contemplating/testing various photo-sharing-over-blog-and-without-spam-sending options, I've decided just to paste a link the the "View my photos" invite for KodakGallery. You have to sign in with your own account, but then you can view three albums--a small one of pics from Santiago and the nearby coast, which we toured with my parents before flying up north; a large one from our trip to San Pedro; and another large one with pics from our trip to Costa Rica. Although some of the pics would no doubt benefit from more commentary, most of them speak for themselves and there's no way I can narrow down either my commentary or my photo selection to just blog alone. So I give up--check out my photos if you'd like. And please let me know if it doesn't work or if you would like to see them another way.