So when my buddy and I got to the wharf at Puerto Montt he looked at me and said, “Boy, did we ever go a long way just to get to Long Beach.” (on Vancouver Island)

He had a point. The landscape is SO like BC – except in Chile there are volcanos. Very beautiful too..especially in December when we were there.

This trip taught me a lot about the power of the sun. I left Santiago at 9pm after enjoying the mid-summer late sunset in a street cafe, and arrived into Vancouver at high noon on a brilliantly sunny day, where it felt like 10 minutes before sunrise the day before – because the contrast between summer (in Chile) and winter (in Vancouver) sun was THAT dramatic. High noon at winter had as much light as sunrise minus 10 minutes in summer. Remarkable to experience that in one day.