trip within a trip pt. 2: La Serena

After Santiago, we took a 7 hour overnight bus to the pretty beach-side city of La Serena for our next stop. (Total Bus Time: 17 hours). By the way "we" means me, Derek, Katie and Nicole my fellow American english teachers in Valdivia. We arrived at 6 in the morning sat outside a hostel for an hour, waiting for it to open and then checked in and took a huge nap after 2 nights of bus sleeping. After that we walked around to the town square where there was a lot of nice buildings, shops, and like every city in South America, great old churches. Then, we walked to the beach and lied out for while. There was an old Spanish fort where I took a Real Love cannon pic. Like always, the Pacific Ocean made me feel small and grounded and comforted and also made miss home a little bit. We stayed here one night, and I liked it a lot. La Serena = Santa Barbara of Chile. The pictures are the beach, the fort, some walking, some cannon riding and a bit of straight up black and white high class art. Kids, I hope you're taking photography lessons.