Mar 02
2010Meet Chris Hardie
Filed Under (World Travel) by Admin on 02-03-2010
Chris Hardie is flanked on a recent run by Waynesburg University student Tiffany Davis and Waynesburg Mayor Blair Zimmerman.
Mar 02
2010Earthquake and Chilean Tourist Destinations
Filed Under (Travel Babel) by Admin on 02-03-2010
Reflections on Chile; news of current conditions
I created this blog in Santiago, Chile, during the 1996 Society of American Travel Writers convention there. The earliest posts are about the Santiago-Valparaiso area more or less in the center of this long skinny country, Puerto Natales and Torres del Paine National Park in Patagonia in the far south and fascinating Easter Island (Isla de Pascua in Spanish) 2,300 miles out in the Pacific Ocean. Natural disasters (and man-made ones too) are heart-wrenching to begin with, but learning of tragendies in places I have visited adds a special poignancy.