in total, i have spent about four weeks in this city, have made a lot of familiar faces, met some incredibly influential people, felt like i was part of a family, subjected my stomach to two chilean bbq’s, gained international skiing experience, hiked my belt size back down two notches and experienced the transformation of being the one in the hospedaje who couldn’t understand a word of spanish to being the one who people were looking to for translation.
i said it before, back when i was heading south, ‘it’s going to be hard to leave this place’, and now that i’m passing through again, i have to say it’s become even harder.
