Nathan Lustig

I made my third trip to LA the past few days and found myself changing my opinion a little bit. The previous two times, I didn’t really like LA that much and actually disliked it for a number of reasons.  I had fun both previous times, but mostly because of the people I was with, not what [...]

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My parents came to visit me in Chile at the end of April and we decided to go to Pucón and the lakes region, but I got lazy in my blogging and didn’t write up this post until just now.  We started off in sunny Santiago in our tiny little Chevy Spark and took the [...]

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My brother Jake came to visit for a week a few weeks back and we decided to go south to Patagonia since he loves hiking.  My friend Tiago came along and we had a great time exploring the amazing beauty of the Magallenes Province. We took a 3.5 hour flight south to Punta Arenas and [...]

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My friends Forrest and Sarah came to visit all the way from Madison, so Jesse, Forrest, Sarah and I decided to take a trip north to La Serena and Valle del Elqui.  La Serena is a town of 150,000 about 4.5 hours north of Santiago.  Along with it’s sister city of Coquimbo, it’s located on [...]

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I realized I’ve written travelogues about my trips all over the rest of the world, but not where I’ve been living for the last four months.  Here’s a list of some of my favorite places, including restaurants, bars and random places to hang out. Restaurants Santiago has some great restaurants, but you have to search [...]

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After San Pedro, I took four days to explore southwestern Bolivia.  Bolivia is the poorest country in all of Latin America and it shows.  I didn’t see a single paved road, even the roads in Uyuni that connect the city of 20,000 with both of the two capitals.  Although it’s very poor, it seemed very [...]

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