Leaving (Easter Island) is so hard.

We went down to Hanga Pika, to see "our" dogs and look for the turtles again...

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Street Art of Santiago de Chile

It was nice to see a meme (in the true sense of the word) created by Shepard Fairey in Providence RI, in a slightly altered form in Santiago.


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More street art of Santiago

This was part of the "Youth Day festival."

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Urban wildlife of Santiago

To be honest, it was kind of a let down to be in Santiago after Easter Island.

Don't get me wrong, Santiago is a vibrant, bustling, cosmopolitan city--but maybe that was the problem. Easter Island is so other-worldly, so unique, that trying to cram another tour in seemed superfluous. Our city tour driver, Gabriel, was very nice, but the tour was not terribly interesting. I have spared you photographs of my father and I standing stiffly in front of a race track, of a government building guard, of a convenience market called "kali," because they weren't very good pictures of not very interesting things. Finally, Gabriel took us to a rich neighborhood on a huge hill.


Manqueue Hill

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