One month

Little more than one month left away from San Francisco. My niece Sofia is here and Im playing mom, taking her to school early each day. Its very nice because she is amazing. Next week we are going together to Buenos Aires, wish us luck, the last visit with my mom was difficult.

Work is going great. My last case, Pascua Lama, is super interesting. This week Ive visited four different cities collecting information from a nice range of fanatics- a nun, an environmental activist, a german biologist, a stubborn environmental scientist, a 28 year-old who authored the most well put together book on glaciers in Chile so far. 

See most of you soon, here are some pictures from life here and some little insights I've reached.

Making ravioli at my cousin's house!

Last picture I took before my camera died. You can see the sand grains. Luckily its been fixed!!

This is a real statue, in a real boardwalk, in a real city, in Chile. Have you seen anything more ugly and in bad taste ever in your life?

In fact it is sooo bad taste the guy even sitting properly. He has one leg up behind the woman.  You get a sense here of the local flair for subtlety.