Cast of Characters

Cast of Characters:
Me, the Boston Pobble: Indiana Jones wanna-be, city girl, carnie-at-heart; Lithus: helicopter pilot, partner in crime, best friend, husband;
Various: mechanics, employers, companies and locals we are lucky enough to meet along the way.

Tuesday, January 14, 2025

First Day of Classes

Both of my classes have officially started and my professors could not be more different. Practices is like "I don't know what we're doing here, so let's get to know each other until I figure out the platform" and Mechanics has given out a quiz with questions like "what is the transitional clause in this sentence?" and "is the underlined a participle phrase, a gerund phrase, an infinitive phrase, or an appositive phrase?" Fuck if I know 🤣



24 hours of travel Thursday – Friday heading back to Philly so I want to get as much done as possible before then. 🤞

Friday, January 10, 2025

A Rosemont Raven

Holy shit, I'm getting my master's degree. What does this have to do with travel? Not a goddamn thing. BUT! It's why I won't be traveling as much, so I figure for a minute, this can be a graduate studies blog. Or maybe I'll use the time to catch up with past travels. Or maybe I'll stop posting altogether again. We'll see. Regardless, the adventure continues...








Wednesday, January 8, 2025

Chillan

 Usually, I get to see some of the town where we're staging. This time, though, I didn't expect to see anything but the hotel and the attached casino (and the clinic) because we don't have a car and the hotel is on the very outskirts of town. As my Elder put it, Chillan is in the middle of nowhere and the hotel is on the outskirts of Chillan. HA!

However, the crew is really good about making sure that everyone has a chance to get the car. We've been to dinner twice and the grocery store once.













Why are some of my pictures sideways? I have no idea! I know that if I fiddle too much though I will never publish. So yay! Sideways pictures. HA!

Greetings from Chile!

 It's so strange; I always think about writing for several days and don't ~ until one morning it's like NOW! You will write NOW! Ha. So, here we are. 

We've been in Chile since 27 December 2024. It's been a really nice visit. I was here for about two days and already liked it more than Greece. I ended up with acute tonsilitis, though, and spent from 9:00 pm to 1:00 am at the clinic our first week here. Who knew adults could still get tonsilitis???? Anyway, a shot in the butt of antibiotics and another of steroids/analgesic and I was remarkably better by the time I woke up and 100% within the next three days. The facilities and care were as good as anything I've gotten in equivalent towns in the States ~ and the whole thing was free. It was amazing. 

All's been well since then, thank goodness. The end of the holidays was nice. NYE, we were expecting peanut butter sandwiches, potato chips, and Netflix in the room (which, let's be honest, wouldn't have sucked) but there's a casino attached, so we thought we'd at least check it out. Nope. We don't gamble and we don't drink much and 9:30 is early, so it was a nonstarter. As we headed back to the room, we walked by the nice restaurant attached to the hotel and casino, the nicest in the whole area. Next thing I know, My Favorite has us a table for the evening, dancing at midnight included. So...we had a lovely NYE dinner and we back in the room on the 6th floor in time to see the fireworks at midnight.

Chile, and Chillan where we are specifically, is a great place. People are kind and respectful to each other. And not just to the tourists, but each other. Infrastructure is good; government is no more corrupt than anywhere else; medicine is first rate. My Favorite has loved Santiago for years and I see why. 

Will I post more? Who knows. But the adventure continues...