Category Archives: travel

LINES in #Chile

I wrote this in pieces on my phone over SIX HOURS I had to wait at the PDI (police department of international affairs…roughly) one day: 10 am. At PDI I had to register and get my Chile ID card. Without that, I can’t open a bank account, my employer isn’t allowed to deduct my taxesContinue reading “LINES in #Chile”

Photos of #Chile : Cerro Santa Lucia, the most beautiful park I’ve ever seen.

Maybe one day I’ll have enough Spanish to adequately describe this place. Charles Darwin gave it the high praise of “certainly most striking.”

Photos of #Chile : #Santiago Centro

On my walk around Central Santiago, there were bells ringing from all the churches, and ladies weaving palm fronds for people as they went into mass. I’m looking forward to Easter here next week – I can’t fathom what it’ll be like.

Vancouver, British Columbia

To get my work visa for Chile, I had to visit one of the country’s consulates in Canada…and there isn’t one in Alberta. The nearest one is in Vancouver, British Columbia. I have two cousins, neither of whom I’ve seen in years (because I’ve been in China, they live in Vancouver and Toronto, and I’veContinue reading “Vancouver, British Columbia”

VOTE. You have to Vote. Part 3 – media

Quebec City mosque shooting victims include businessman, professor and fathers of young children 6 men were shot in the back as they gathered for evening prayer, mosque’s vice-president says FIRST. Now. I wanted to know who did it. I was so anxious to know I was on Twitter all day. Which, we should know, isContinue reading “VOTE. You have to Vote. Part 3 – media”

VOTE. You have to Vote. Part 2 #Canada #voting #nomuslimban #refugeeswelcome

#WelcomeToCanada pic.twitter.com/47edRsHLJ5 — Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) January 28, 2017 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js My goodness. That went well! But it’s not remotely over yet. Next: the “hard” part. Immediately after the inauguration, The Village Voice published a series of mini-interviews done with attendees. The very first interviewee said that the new president’s words were being parsed by theContinue reading “VOTE. You have to Vote. Part 2 #Canada #voting #nomuslimban #refugeeswelcome”

VOTE. You. Have. To. VOTE. Part 1 #vote #canada

The horrors have been coming so thick and fast that no one can process them all. Which is part of the strategy, clearly: throw in all the immigration, abortion, and press bans, one right after the other, and there are too many things to nail down and protest. Which is why I am — forContinue reading “VOTE. You. Have. To. VOTE. Part 1 #vote #canada”