Chile - September 2005
The September 2005 trip to Chile -- Snowboarding, and a brief tour of Santiago
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Introduction
Introduction
I desperately needed a vacation! For one thing, I hadn't had much time off
since mid-2003 (see the Senegal/Paris vacation notes).
But mainly, in mid-July I was suddenly siezed by a powerful urge to snowboard.
The 2004-2005 ski season was brutal in Washington--we didn't get any snow. I
had had a *single* day of snowboarding the entire year. I wanted to make up
for that a little.
So I booked a room at Valle Nevado in Chile, and flew out for just over a week
in late September. This wasn't like my usual International vacations: I
didn't spend much time looking around. I snowboarded most of the time. But I
did get around a day to look at Santiago at the end of the trip.
Anyway, you can start with the snowboarding pictures here:
Valle Nevado - September 2005