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Chile Travel Journal 2008, Easter Island and Atacama Desert Trip - Sometimes you ought to leave the damn guide book HOME. Not that they don’t have any merit. Still. When your travel books become glued to your hands like the Holy Bible, it becomes really difficult to morph from tourist to traveler - to take chances, to be spontaneous, to talk to people who can tell you more about a country than any guide book.
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Leave the damn guide book HOME

Sometimes you ought to leave the damn guide book HOME.

Not that they don’t have any merit. Jeez. If not for the Lonely Planet, I never would have found that wonderful French astronomer in Chile who dazzled me on my birthday with a celestial light show that made van Gogh’s Starry Night look like child’s play. Thank you, Alain …
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Yan - Easter Island

We made the trade quickly in the lobby of the Hotel O’tai: one faded blue New York Yankees baseball cap for another hat embroidered with the words Rapa Nui.

“It’s a fair trade,” Yan had said. “I’m sure not many people in New York will have one of these.”

No doubt. It was 8:45 p.m. and I had stolen all …
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Max - San Pedro de Atacama

I had arrived at lunch much later than usual that day– having spent the morning swimming in an emerald green lagoon.

“I was missing you, Mrs. DeGiglio,” Max said by way of a greeting when I entered the dining room of the Terrantai Lodge, a wonderful small hotel made of native stone and adobe.

I had come to San Pedro de …
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