After about six weeks of traveling it was amazing to return to a place that feels like home. I was in Valparaiso for about a week living with my old host family and just taking in as much of the city as I could. I knew that I loved it when I am studying there but this trip simply reaffirmed my love.
I spent a lot of time showing Maggie all the places that I loved through the cerros and streets of Valparaiso. This town is amazing and full of wondeful, creative and unique people. There is no need for a guide book, you can spend days just wandering around the city and each view is breathtaking. I also had number of marathon lunches were I discussed every element of life from my travels to legality of homosexual marriage with my familiy and their friends. It was amazing to be able to have deep conversations, because we had already had all of the shallow ones. We also took advantage of the night life and I ran into old friends and just had a wonderful time living the Chilean life again, even if it was for a short time.
Maggie and I also took a day trip to sand dunes right outside of Viña. This was a great day. I had never been to them before and it was a different world. You go from a pretty busy city full of buildings and dogs to what looks like the Sahara. We watched the sunset over the oceand it was simply amazing.
This week was a great way to end my traveling experience and start to get into the living in South America mentality. From Valparaiso I hopped a plane to Asuncion, Paraguay where I am going to be working for the next three months.
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