During those first quarantine months of COVID, Mark and I frequently commented on how much it felt like our Airstream adventure. We were all together, all the time. There wasn’t much time for personal interest or solitude. At times you feel like you might suffocate from too much family time. We all love our families […]

When we chose Chile for a year of adventure, one of our reasons was wanting to live in a country where we could explore within it’s national borders. With Covid protocols varying from country to country, we didn’t want to skip around countries, dealing with different restrictions, quarantines, and unexpected requirements.  Chile seemed an ideal […]

Wilson’s hooked on Parque Araucano skatepark. It is a pretty cool facility. I had some hesitancy taking him into the skatepark for the first time. It was a Friday afternoon. Skater teens were all over, and I wasn’t certain how they were going to take to Wilson, who was the only one to show up […]

As I’ve mentioned, the produce at the grocery stores here is hit or miss. This baffled me because when preparing for our trip, I would say to the kids, “Look where these strawberries are from.” or “What does the sticker on those apples say?”. Chile. They were all grown in Chile. I’d daydream about the […]

The kids had choir practice last Saturday morning, and afterwards we attended the “18 in Vitacura” festival in Parque Bicentenario. The family festival is a celebration of Chile’s independence in 1810, a national holiday observed on September 18th. Highlights include the churros, the circus games, and Wilson dominating the potato sack race.