Death of a Dictator

let me interrupt the slow-but-steady uploading of my journal entries from the trip for a real-time post: HOLY CRAP, am i glad that i left santiago last sunday instead of this sunday, or that señor pinochet was gracious enough to hang on for a week before dying. some of the news clips i've seen show riots and fires right outside my hotel.

while the photos would have been amazing, and it would for sure make for an unbelievable travel story, being in the midst of an out-and-out riot, on top of the lost luggage/bandit taxi fiasco upon my arrival, just might have hit that final nail into santiago's coffin for me...