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The Birding Road
Deadly enemy: hilo curado
Another winter is coming to an end in the southern hemisphere, the winds start to blow with more force and most of the Chileans prepare to celebrate national holidays. Some small protagonists begin to appear in the sky, the ‘volantines’ (Chilean kites), and along with them the danger of the ‘hilo curado’ (abrasive string)
Quarantine’s logbook: day 404
And so, a whole year had passed and another autumn begun to cool the days in Santiago. “Time flies when you’re having fun”, although it also seems to fly if you’re enclosed and each day is the same to each other, and what happened yesterday was really a couple of days ago.
“Arrive safely, drive carefully”
It’s been two years. On October 16, 2018, I was preparing to go out on the motorcycle when I met my dad at the gate, as usual. He commented me that he was planning to take my mother to the beach to eat some empanadas, he loved the sea and they hadn’t visited it since…
My grandfather: the motorcyclist
Como posiblemente todos hemos estado experimentando en mayor o menor medida este año, por temas del COVID-19 los viajes se han restringido tremendamente… Al menos físicamente, ¡así que en medio del encierro voy a compartirles un viaje en el tiempo! Comienza hace unos 100 años
COVID: an interlude
El otoño es mi estación favorita. Me encanta cuando—luego de un seco y caluroso verano en Santiago—comienzan a regresar los días nublados, las mañanas frías y las primeras lluvias. Durante el verano, al cruzarme frente a la TV, escuchaba sobre un nuevo coronavirus en China. Sería un duro cambio de estaciones este año.
The Birding Road 