Instead of trying to tell you everything about Chile, I will just give a few little highlights.  The truth is that this is the best country I have ever visited in my whole, long life! I am totally and completely, head over heels in love with this place.  Why don´t we know about Chile? Why doesn´t anyone ever go there? I don´t know, but I didn´t know what to expect.  What I`ve gotten here has been great.  Here are some good moments:

-Hitchhiking is very accepted here and we have done it a few times.  Once in the Pisco Valley when we were trying to get to a winery! We got picked up by a funny old man who told us how he was an old tree and wouldn´t survive in any other environment.  Then just yesterday, we were walking on this country road and got a ride from this funny, drunk American couple, Debbie and Joel! They were so nice and funny and were having the time of their lives drinking and driving.

-Carolina, our friend we met in Ecuador, was a wildly generous host to us in Santiago.  She gave us a free Pilates course, gave us her bed, made us homemade chacareros.  The funniest thing was that her sweet mom has a cousin in San Fran and when the mom said that Carolina is going to meet up with us in NYC in may, the cousin said: oh be careful! I watched a story on 60 minutes about a woman who met a man and went to his country and he sold her to someone as his wife! We won´t sell Carolina!!!! I laughed about that for a long time because I think  it´s pretty american to be that paranoid!

-Without a doubt, the best thing about Chile, besides it´s amazing food and people, is the landscapes.  I have never seen anything like it.  This is a huge country.  From Arica on the top to Santiago in the middle, it´s 2000 kilometers! That´s a lot! It starts as this rolling desert and then it just gets better.  Yesterday, we went to Lago Todos los Santos which is this emerald green lake surrounded by volcanoes.   What!

-We went to Arica, SPA, Pisco Elqui, Valparaiso, Santiago, Pucon, Puerto Varas and honestly every single town has topped the last one.  We are on our last legs in Chile.  Tonight we are going to this strange and haunted island, Chiloe, which is supposedly very very beautiful.  It was isolated for like 300 years and was serviced by one boat a year!!! So I guess it´s a serious place.  There is a lot left south of us in Chile, but it is complicated and hard to get around because it´s, like, the end of the world, so you have to take a lot of ferries.  We are crossing over to Argentina in a day or two and will spend a whole luxurious month there!

Come to Chile! It´s great! I would marry it if I could!