Well, maybe in the next couple of weeks I can re-familiarize myself with posting here, as I am leaving IN THE MORNING on my first trip to Chile in two years (Hooray!)
Anyway, before I go any further, I just want to say to the many blog followers who were disappointed that I took an extended hiatus from blogging about my South American travels that I am sorry to have abandoned the site. The reason was, purely and simply, that I was growing too "homesick" for Chile and Argentina because of the writing process - It was so intense for me as to be actually depressing, because a year ago my finances were so bad that there was no way I would be able to pull off another trip down, even as doing such intensive writing about my travels was making me want to go back to those places so badly.Well, suffice it to say that I am not about ready to jump back in and resume writing that retrospective on my first trip to South America in 2002-2003 (sorry) but will instead come to this blog on occasion while I am traveling there in these next two coming weeks!
Yes, my financial situation markedly improved at the end of 2010 - partially because I started to draw my Social Security benefits, and also because I finally sold off my commercial property in Salt Lake City.
So now comes, at long last, my new trip! It has been two full years since I was last in Chile, so I am very glad now that I can pull off this quick visit after brooding over my inability to do so for so long. Then just perhaps I can muster up whatever is needed to make another epic journey down there in November or December, for two to three months of vagabonding.
This is a short two week jaunt. I'll be spending the first half with my agent and friend Andres Gabor and also with his kids, and then my second half will be a solo trip in a rental car up to and including the day of my departure, which will be March 14th. Stay tuned, folks...
