I made it home to my lovely family. Here's Allie, Gracie, Hanna and Emelia.

The week went by super fast, but it was nice to see family and friends!









I am cross country skiing for the first time here in Alaska. So, yes I made it safely to Alaska. It's also great to see family here! JD and Mary have two children now, Noah and Lina and Ike and Nikki are married and living in a cute cabin and are letting me stay with them.

Ike and Nikki at Chugiak High School's track and football field which becomes a cross country skiing track during the winter, obviously! It was a great workout. CC skiing is similar to running and I haven't been able to run for 2 yrs. b/c of my IT band and this wasn't hard on my knee, so it's a perfect workout! LOVE IT and feeling sore, wooohoo!

Well, I missed a flight yesterday due to a cancellation in Colombia. I had to stay in Miami last night and will hopefully be home tonight. I have about 5 days home and then I head up to Alaska to hang out with my brothers, their wives and children until July and will be back to Indiana for good then. I plan to keep this blog up.

One of the last things I did on my tour was go to a wine vineyard. The wine in Chile is SOOO cheap and good (well I drink cheap wine and think it's good).

I am happy to be coming home and this trip to Chile has been such a blessing and I have learned so much about God and myself ~ especially that I like warm weather and skipping out on winter! :)

Pomaire, Chile is famous for their pottery. Those of you who speak Spanish will understand. Those of you who don't can use your imagination or maybe will learn a little Spanish from the video. It's funny, the first pottery store I went to the lady was super rude and wouldn't let me so I just hopped to the next store and he was a lot nicer.

My trip to the south was great and I would highly recommend Chile as a place to travel for people who like outdoors and nature. Umm.... now I return home and then to Alaska. The other "patagonia" of the world. Woohooo!

These Sea Lions were so entertaining! I am in Valdivia, Chile and it´s beatiful here. I can´t believe how beautiful Chile is.

Yesterday I biked about 35 miles up to some waterfalls and then to a beach and the scenery was absolutley amazing. There is a partially active volacano there in Pucon and lots of green! I camped out for two nights under the stars.


Whoops, this is sideways but I am out of time. See the snow-topped volcano in the background! While I was biking I could smell the pine trees the air was so clean. Such a nice break from the busy and contaminated city of Santiago.