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In Santiago, we visited the National Library of Chile. This is the main reading room.
Thanks to a contact Laura has, we were able to visit the Centro de Documentation at El Mercurio, the preeminent newspaper in Chile. I talked shop with the news librarians there — you know, indexing, databases, research, clip files. It was interesting to learn how similar their jobs are to mine.
That’s my gracious host, Veronica Vega, on the right.
Valparaiso sits on a bunch of hills overlooking the Pacific ocean. It’s not unlike San Francisco in that way.
Pablo Neruda’s house in Isla Negra is full of his collections. Here are some of his glass knick-knacks.
We had a lovely sunset our first night in Santiago.
Had dinner in a Viking restaurant.
Santiago is a modern city.
The central market is considerably cleaner than many others we’ve visited on this trip.
This guard paces the courtyard of the Presidential Palace.
Old Minis sit in a Santiago courtyard.
Cerro Santa Lucia (a park) offers great views of the Santiago skyline and a place for making out couples to fulfill their exhibitionistic tendencies.
We had dinner with Laura´s lovely sister, Maria Angelica, who lives in Santiago.
Alta Gracia is just outside of Cordoba and was where Che Guevara spent a lot of time as a kid playing revolutionary.
We were heading out of Cachi and toward Cafayate when we ... [Continue reading this entry] 
What do you get when you cross Italy and France with Latin America? Yup, you get an Argentina. ... [Continue reading this entry] Made it to Argentina. Stay tuned.
The road to Iruya is incredibly curvy and chock-full of scenery. Before now we didn't know that parts of Argentina resembled Utah.
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