Valparaiso: Art and Depart

Valparaiso is a UNESCO World Heritage site
known for its street art

We continue our Long Way Home series with some highlights from last weekend.  We are sailing north along the coast of Chile, this shoe-string country over 2500 miles long.  A remarkable place, spanning all climate zones from the glaciers of the Antarctic south to the heat of the Atacama Desert in the north, with everything in between.   For more on Chile, CLICK HERE. We've posted some photos of the south and Patagonia; last weekend we spent a day in the middle, the port city of Valparaiso.  We visited here for the first time a year ago, and really enjoyed the return visit with brother Jay and cuñada Elena.  Our traveling companions flew home to New Mexico from Valparaiso, and we miss their adventuresome, fun spirits.  Here are some shots of our time together in Valparaiso.

Valparaiso:  Docking before dawn

A town built on hills with steep funiculars
to carry you up and down

Street Art

Sweet street art

Elena and Jay with street art between their ears

Valparaiso Bay from J&E's 20th floor condo

Iguana be a wall painting

Pointing at our home on the Sun