Tom Bartel

Tom Bartel is a former newspaper publisher, editor, and university journalism professor. He has traveled to more than 75 countries and has lived in Spain, England, and Italy. He has won multiple awards for both his travel writing and photography.

Valparaíso and So Forth

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Kris and I went for the weekend in Valparaíso and stayed for the rain.

The three month long drought in Chile broke all over us last weekend. We took a two-hour bus trip to Valpo on Friday even though we’d been warned that the weather wasn’t going to cooperate. I don’t know why we didn’t just postpone until the week. It’s not like we have jobs or anything that makes us note the difference between weekends and weekdays, but, at least one of us is really stubborn.