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Sunday, December 16, 2007
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
I'M HOME!!!
Hi I'm in the United States!!!!!
Anyway, just thought I'd let you know ;-)
I'll probably (hopefully?) get the Patagonia pics on Facebook soon, and I'll also make a final post with some favorite pictures and such, later this week.
Love,
Katie
Anyway, just thought I'd let you know ;-)
I'll probably (hopefully?) get the Patagonia pics on Facebook soon, and I'll also make a final post with some favorite pictures and such, later this week.
Love,
Katie
Sunday, December 9, 2007
Patagonia!!
Well, I'm supposed to be packing, so just a quick run-through with pictures here since I can't get them to load on Facebook and I can tell the stories... well, in person very very soon. lol
Monday was a fantastic day. We hiked to the Torres del Paine look-out. Danielle and I hiked together (there were 6 of us on the trip total) and we made it in about 3 hours, 2 of them tough and uphill. But when we got there the clouds were just clearing up, so we stayed for about an hour before hiking back down. I wish I had gotten to know Danielle better earlier in the semester, we had a lot of fun and also a lot of coversation about God, faith, Catholicism, etc. (she is also Catholic)... it was great.
The first hour out/last hour back was up along a hill overlooking this valley. Beautiful.
The 45 minutes or so just before and after we got to the Torres, we had to climb this. yikes!
The middle section of the hike was generally like this:
On Tuesday we took a bus tour of the park. This is looking towards the Torres- we got lucky, because if we had gone on Monday it would have been too cloudy to see them in the morning. In the foreground of the pic you can see a few guanacos, which I think are kind of like llamas.
The Cuernos del Paine.
Some icebergs, and in the back center you can see a glacier!!
The last stop was this enormous cave... I wasn't even halfway back when I took this one.
PENGUINS! On Wednesday afternoon we went to a penguin colony. I got within about a foot or 2 of this one. The rest of them we mostly saw from a distance.
Overlooking Punta Arenas, the southernmost city in the world. (and it wasn't really that warm, but we had just walked up the hill so I had my winter coat off. lol)
On Thursday we crossed the Strait of Magellan to the Tierra del Fuego, the large island that forms the tip of South America. This is the ferry docked at the island.
I took this at about 11pm... wow! Its not even completely dark yet!
Overall, very very awesome trip...
Well, I think I'm going to go computer-less tomorrow, in order to A, pack and B, enjoy the last day here. So, next time you hear from me, I'll be back in the States! Its so weird to think about! Its going to be really hard to say good-bye tomorrow, but I'm soooo excited to come home!! See you soon!
Love,
Katie
Monday was a fantastic day. We hiked to the Torres del Paine look-out. Danielle and I hiked together (there were 6 of us on the trip total) and we made it in about 3 hours, 2 of them tough and uphill. But when we got there the clouds were just clearing up, so we stayed for about an hour before hiking back down. I wish I had gotten to know Danielle better earlier in the semester, we had a lot of fun and also a lot of coversation about God, faith, Catholicism, etc. (she is also Catholic)... it was great.
The first hour out/last hour back was up along a hill overlooking this valley. Beautiful.
The 45 minutes or so just before and after we got to the Torres, we had to climb this. yikes!
The middle section of the hike was generally like this:
On Tuesday we took a bus tour of the park. This is looking towards the Torres- we got lucky, because if we had gone on Monday it would have been too cloudy to see them in the morning. In the foreground of the pic you can see a few guanacos, which I think are kind of like llamas.
The Cuernos del Paine.
Some icebergs, and in the back center you can see a glacier!!
The last stop was this enormous cave... I wasn't even halfway back when I took this one.
PENGUINS! On Wednesday afternoon we went to a penguin colony. I got within about a foot or 2 of this one. The rest of them we mostly saw from a distance.
Overlooking Punta Arenas, the southernmost city in the world. (and it wasn't really that warm, but we had just walked up the hill so I had my winter coat off. lol)
On Thursday we crossed the Strait of Magellan to the Tierra del Fuego, the large island that forms the tip of South America. This is the ferry docked at the island.
I took this at about 11pm... wow! Its not even completely dark yet!
Overall, very very awesome trip...
Well, I think I'm going to go computer-less tomorrow, in order to A, pack and B, enjoy the last day here. So, next time you hear from me, I'll be back in the States! Its so weird to think about! Its going to be really hard to say good-bye tomorrow, but I'm soooo excited to come home!! See you soon!
Love,
Katie
Saturday, December 8, 2007
I'm back!
Back to Valpo, my trip was amaaaazing. Patagonia is gorgeous!!! I have the pictures loaded on my computer, but I figure I only have 2 days of summer left before coming home, so I am going to go out for a while and maybe put them up tonight.
Love,
Katie
Love,
Katie
Saturday, December 1, 2007
The end of the world!
Well, I'm off tomorrow to the "end of the world"! (Really! look at the map on the right of your screen- I'm basically going to the very bottom of that)
I'll spend two days at Torres del Paine National Park (click here), the first day hiking and the second day on a bus tour that will include getting to see a glacier!
Then we will return to Punta Arenas, the southern-most city in the world (here). On Thursday we'll be visiting a penguin colony in the Strait of Magellan! Then we fly back on Friday and I'll get back to Vina/Valpo on Friday night or Saturday, depending on whether we make the last bus Friday night.
Have a good week everyone!
Love,
Katie
I'll spend two days at Torres del Paine National Park (click here), the first day hiking and the second day on a bus tour that will include getting to see a glacier!
Then we will return to Punta Arenas, the southern-most city in the world (here). On Thursday we'll be visiting a penguin colony in the Strait of Magellan! Then we fly back on Friday and I'll get back to Vina/Valpo on Friday night or Saturday, depending on whether we make the last bus Friday night.
Have a good week everyone!
Love,
Katie
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