Nathan Lustig

I spent four days in and around San Pedro de Atacama, in the far north of Chile, about two hours north of Santiago by flight.  Atacama is one of the strangest, most beautiful, rugged, remote, stunning places I’ve ever been.  Normally, I really dislike tours and prefer to go out on my own, but San [...]

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Pichilemu is a small surfing town about three to four hours south of Santiago by bus.  I went a few weeks ago with some startup chile friends and it was beautiful.  It was just the break I needed from the heat of Santiago in the middle of the summer.  There were huge beaches, big waves, [...]

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I spent four days in San Francisco after New Years for some business meetings.  I’ve been to San Fran multiple times before and it’s one of my favorite cities in the US.  Since Jesse and I had to work, we didn’t get to do that much exploring. As always, San Francisco food did no disappoint.  [...]

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I went to LA around New Years to go watch Wisconsin play in the Rose Bowl.  It was a great trip, besides Wisconsin losing in the last minute to a very good TCU team.  Spending four days in and around LA confirmed that it’s not the city for me.  I had never been to LA [...]

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Santiago and Mendoza, Argentina are separated by about 120 miles and one huge mountain range.  Instead of a 2 hour drive, it’s a 5-6 hour drive through the Andes mountains.  You can go by plane in about 40 minutes.  Mendoza had been on our list of places to visit and when Mendoza showed up LAN [...]

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Viña del Mar is the closest beach to Santiago, so we decided to take a trip.  I went with a few of friends from Startup Chile, including Tiago (Portugal), Raj (UK), Hank (US) and Jesse.  We took the $5 bus through the hills and ended up in Viña about 1.5 hours later.  They played a [...]

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