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23 March, 2023 | Santiago Chile Rolling back to Bellavista, most of the tour ended up at lunch together at the good but otherwise unremarkable restaurant next door. Carlos the tour guide saved us from a debate on venue by helpfully handing us a free drink ticket each. Back on the
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23 March, 2023 | Santiago Chile Day 2 As my partner can attest to, I can sometimes get myself into a mood. Any combination of lack of sleep, food, adequate hydration, or ingesting political news can easily bring this on. What is less known is that beyond fixing these problems directly
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Okay it probably isn’t their fault; booking through my credit card company in order to expend some of the ten-years worth of points I’ve been studiously ignoring probably didn’t help. But still, lol. It genuinely wasn’t a big deal. So the flights Santiago -> Auckland
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Tumblr was fine for the most part but there were a couple of little issues that have made writing miserable: 1. Occasionally pasting images just straight up doesn’t work 2. When it does, it’ll show the previously pasted image? 3. Oh, and you can’t write anything after
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22 March 2023 It was like a ten hour flight with the requisite wailing child and person-with-some-kind-of-respiratory-infection per section. I had just enough energy to take a look at the view from the place. Then get some food across the river in Bellavista, passing through this thing strip of park
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21 March, 2023 Naomi had to fly back early, but with the extra day I made another run at Centro (or The Historic Center of Mexico City). It’s an area with a bunch of cool stuff; it’s the center of a town conquered by the Spanish so you
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As it happens there was a temporary exhibit at the monument that was a bunch of great stuff on 18th and 19th century socialist and anarchist movements/literature, and the various ways both were brutally suppressed. Weird homestate connection to learn one of the newspaper dissidents Porfirio Dias tried to
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I’m insanely behind on this blog. At the time of writing, I have been in Sydney Australia for several days. So to skip to the end of the Mexican Revolution: 1. General Victoriano Huerta seized power and about everyone in the country turned against him. 2. Pancho Villa (escaping
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20 March, 2023 We were already intending on having this be a good “rest” or planning day, given most museums and similar attractions are closed, but the timing was even more fortuitous. At least, in a manner of speaking. My partner was feeling ill and this was the observed day
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You can just shut down a major road and let people bike down it. They do this every Sunday. The world doesn’t end.
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19 March, 2023 Whether you think of Leon Trotsky was cool and good or one of history’s greatest monsters (lol get out more), he was a guy of considerable impact. There’s a very strong argument to be made (1) the October Revolution and (2) the ultimate victory of
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18 March, 2023 Always on the lookout for “American” food or goods in foreign countries - either to get the funhouse mirror treatment or a devastating critique (or both)