Thursday, December 22, 2022

Where's the Money? The Latest in Chile and Argentina

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Since arriving in Chile, I’ve had four occasions to change money—thrice at ATMs and once over the counter at a   casa de cambio   (exchange ...
Saturday, December 10, 2022

Returning to Santiago (and all that entails)

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At very long last, this past Monday, I arrived back in Chile for the first time since   March of 2020, when I abruptly flew home to Californ...
Monday, December 5, 2022

Ushuaia's "Prison without Walls:" A Book Review

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Over more than four decades, I’ve visited the city of   Ushuaia   at least a dozen times—first, in 1979, when Argentina had nearly provoked ...
Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Tuesday Topics: Patagonia, Reopening Chile, Vaccines, Masks & Linguistics, and Falklands Flights

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When I arrived in   Santiago de Chile   in late February of 2020, to begin updating   Moon Handbooks Patagonia   for the upcoming sixth edit...
Monday, May 23, 2022

Mayhem Among the Moai? It's Fiction, Fortunately.

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A few weeks ago, while walking the dog, I rifled through a nearby  Little Free Library  and stumbled upon an intriguing title by the late  L...
Friday, April 22, 2022

Purgatory 2.0? EZE to DFW (and, Fortunately, Beyond)

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Early last week, anticipating our flight back to California (via   Dallas ), we rose early and went to the closest location of   CentraLab ,...
Monday, April 11, 2022

Blue Dollars, or Dollar Blues? Managing Money in Argentina

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What is a   cueva ? In Spanish it’s literally a cave and some of them, like the   Cueva de las Manos   in southern Argentine   Patagonia , a...
Thursday, March 24, 2022

Pedaling the Pampas

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The Plusmar bus line crosses the Pampas from Retiro to Olavarría. After I spent a week adapting to a five-hour time change and recovering fr...