When we finally left Santiago last Tuesday, we headed to San Francisco to visit our friends Nick & Vans and their 2 month old son Xavi. ...

My trip to Antofagasta to try to sell the van again didn't have the most auspicious of starts...I somehow managed to set my alarm for t...

The only way we could sort out the van's paperwork without it taking weeks was to go back to the office in Santiago where the transfer w...

A few months ago, when Paul and I had our first setbacks, we consoled ourselves by saying "that'll be a good story to tell back hom...

So after 10 days on the market, we still didn't have an acceptable offer for the van.  Both us were beginning to despair - we were in li...

What was probably our final jaunt in the van was to some thermal baths (of course!) 160km from Arica, near the little town of Putre.  They...

We're still in Arica, still trying to sell the van.  Interest in it has been steady but no one's liked it enough to make an offer (o...