Out for a Chilean Friday night

Standard stuff really. Bars open till 5am. Food open till then or later, had the best burger in a while. And had to snap this for DareBare and the other Oakley lovers out there. It was on the sidewalk and I'm certain was not intended to be "the O face.....
Here ya go~

30hrs in Santiago... "Not all who wonder are lost."

Thursday, after a sweet Wednesday night longboard shredd sesh, I hopped an hour.5 long bus to Santiago. It was for a 9am interview and of course we woke late to get to the bus station. So I was really late and decided to head 7 or 8 stops down the metro to the offices anyway. So they said I had to come back the next day to catch the Friday group interview for Valle Nevado. They host these interviews daily with 5 to 15 applicants in the same room. Wierd.

So I decided to make the best of the day. Had some food and tea, then set out for a walk in what ever direction looked good. I found a nice plaza with some flea market tents, and random businesses....really random. It was about5

blocks long with a park at the end, good place to kill some hours~

When I got sick of wondering I found the internet and hopped on facebook to grab a friends #. Got in contact with the peeps, and they where nice enough to scoop me up at the end of the metro rail~

We went to a mate's house, Fabian. This standared chill hard moment ended with a suprising event. Fabian is the exclusive producer of www.anded.cl to www.chilenieve.com. Which for those of you who don't know or haven't yet seen, is the Sudamerican version of skitownunderground.net~ This path crossing is yet another rare moment in this adventure. We exchanged cards and I said that we are "international peeps" Or as Mike Kelly would say, "World Citizens". Good things are coming...good things

The mountains were on the virge of a low pressure anomily as we caught some lunch with the Santander family. After, the plan was to head back to Vina. This turned into some Pool, which by the way is crazy here because the pockets are half the size you've seen. In result, 3 games takes a long time. I learned something about Santaigo afteer this....Don't be there after 6pm, traveling that is. Rush hour is no joke! We went back to the casa for the eve, and I caught a cab to the metro in the morning for the 9am group interview.

First one there, filled out my paperwork, crutched my way through a 95% Spanish entrevista. The competition was not up for the challenge luckely so I think I had some good stride. 2 weeks for a response though...

Not wanting to wait for a hypothetical response I have decided to rent a place that Mario is hooking up in the mountains. Farellones will be home for only a quarter of a G USD per month.

Finnally I headed back to the bus stop North east bound into the storm front we were awating. And it came....BIG. Downpour in Vina walking to the 602 bus up to Con Con. 5+ inches of water in the low areas of town. This turned into 55cm of snow at the base of the mountains. Much needed for the season opener this Thursday. And my Wednesday arrival~

my first....

I've had some firsts the last 24 hours. Last night was my first green purchasing experience in another country. It was shady as usual. But we got to taste the goods first....the goods where of the earth "son natural" ...in other words, quality mids. As we set out to buy a new longboard, the night of Chilean Barbeque and pacalolo set forth gave an early precursor of what was to come. I had to snap this...
Today, Wednesday, I went to College in Chile for the first time. I had to get some printing done so I went to school with Nacho. Typical college day, I had some free periods in the morning where I did some future job planning, checked out some chicas, did some net working, smoked a bone at the footboll field.

Then my last period was English 5. Thats right I went to Engish class. The Profesora was nice in every way...from Tennesee. I def. was an educational stimulus to a nomally boaring forgein language class. I'm welcome back anytime, and I would say we all learned some good stuff~

I didn't get a great angle of the main bulding, but they are all like concrete compounds. With no heat. Not bad though. They had a super efficient print shop that you email yer documents to.
I would go there, its very similar to CMC-alpine.

~Longboard Promised Land~

Yes where the wine flows like the long roads of Vina del mar, so clean, fresh and smooth. No potholes and lit like our minds. Why drink and drive when you can get high and roll?

My host and good friend just baught a new deck. I dailed in these kids trucks and am showing them the ropes as best as I can. We are headed out again tonight for some late night laps. Aimed for getting some good footy to approach Loaded with. I think that once they see what the asphault Gods hath layed before us...Loaded will be sold in Chile via nosotros~

Shredd sesh

Nacho hooked it up today with some of his friends that are getting started longboarding. They are doing pretty well...all padded up. We hit up tons of new roads just a short jaunt from where I'm staying. It was good to be back on a board after not having much time to do so in the Boat...the daily afternoon showers didn't help either. Our plan is to try and bring Loaded down here. I emailed Derik yesterday and Loaded today. We are going to push a lot of US brands here actually. It could be a profitable season. We are gonna HUSTLE it~

This is the view out the dining room window on Sunday. Today it was sunny and mild. I went for a run up and down the coast. Sucking salt water air at 0 altitude was a bit foreign but felt good. Along the way one of the many stray dogs started to run with me. It was some nice company for the latter part of the run. He stopped by people along the way looking for attention and food I had to tell them "No es mi perro! Odd dog though...did not like the water.

This beach time is well received as the ski season is planned to open Friday. I am believing in the expected moisture moving in throughout the week. Wednesday I will go to Santiago for a job interview. Then it's up to Valle~

Life in Vina

Yesterday after a much to expensive cab ride to Vina del Mar that my friend told me not to take, which i did anyways. I was dropped off at one of the only places open in town. A few days prior I was visiting with a good friend Katy Gary and she was telling me about her sister who live in Chile teaching English. We looked at a map to see where, she didn't remember so we said oh well to that. I was sitting in the window at a bar using the convenient wifi when two women who were obviously american walked in looking to buy an umbrella. I said hey i'm from the states, they said where, and this went so on untill we came to the conclusion that Hanna, standing in front of me, was Katy's sister! If I had not taken that cab against my instructions, at the presice time, to the presice place. This path crossing never would have occured. The world consists of many paths that sometimes fold over on each other creating extraordinary events like this one.

Stuff in TRANSIT

Just over 200lbs worth of STUFF. I sometimes wonder why we need so much stuff. Well we can start from the root of the needs. Food. to eat food you either need to grow, kill, or buy it. to do any of these things you need stuff. I most cases one buys it. How do you get money? at a job using lots of stuff, or selling stuff or services. In my case my ski bag was packed with skis to sell for money. Plus one extra travel bag packed with stuff to provide boot fitting and ski tuning services that will return money to buy food, water, shelter. It is a vicious cycle~

In TRANSIT

"From my corner of the globe lets probe lets go, gonna take you on a ride, but give it breath slow."
The Grouch, Show You the World