Now that I'm back in the US just in time for spring, it occurs to me that my seasons are super out of whack. Starting from last (northern) summer spent in California, I was in Chile for most of the... Continue Reading →
As soon as I finished all my new-apartment projects, I ended up leaving. Whomp whomp. It was a tough decision, but I ended up flying back to the US last weekend after we shut down the observatory in Chile as... Continue Reading →
The title of this blog post is dedicated to every person that's said some version of that phrase to me in the past few months, which is more people than I can count on two hands. It's also honestly not... Continue Reading →
This is mostly just random stories and pictures from the month of October in La Serena, Chile, but sometimes I do feel like my life is an SNL skit as illustrated in the last story of this post. I was... Continue Reading →
I've been hearing about the mystical Valle de Elqui since my first trip to Chile in January 2018, and now almost two years later I can finally say that I've been and it's beautiful. I highly recommend both Pisco the... Continue Reading →
Yeah, the title is cheesy, but a solar eclipse is also a surprisingly emotional event. Last Tuesday (July 2nd), my coworkers and I (and another friend) watched as the entire city of La Serena, Chile erupted in cheers when the... Continue Reading →