NOTE: We wrote this entry on February 26th, the fateful night before the earthquake hit Chile, but we didn't post it right away and the next day there were obviously more important things to write about. Now it seems a shame though not to show the beauty of

Thank you everyone for your comments and thoughts! We arrived safely in Santiago this afternoon after only a couple of detours on the highway. The roads from Santa Cruz to Santiago were mostly fine in fact. We saw a couple of bridges that had collapsed but most affected the highway

The wind gusts, rivers flow, lava erupts and the earth slides. Our planet is composed of enormous plates that float on molten magma. In places they pull apart, creating new earth (the mid-atlantic ridge). In others they slide past each other, creating fissures (the St Andreas fault). And in some

Our plan in Chile is to travel north by car. Having the freedom of our own transportation we decided to leave lodging to fate. We would see unexpected things and stop where we saw fit. Each intersection was a choice to be decided on the spot. The morning started out

Today marks exactly one year since we left our lovely little apartment in Barcelona and started travelling. We didn't know if it would work out for this long, combining work and travel, left to our own devices 24/7 and sometimes without much of a plan. But it&