Santiago, Chile, South America 25th January 2008
Day 328
Hiya´s...
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Australian Open: Sunday's final will feature the frenchman, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, who beat Nadal and Novak Djokovic, the Serbian who beat Hewitt and FEDERER (in straight sets)!!!
So...the Australian Men´s Title could be anyone´s!!! (I hope Djokovic wins seeing he beat our Hewitt!) Looks like it´s going to be THE GORGEOUS FINAL for the Women´s Title with Serbian Ana Ivanovic (The Squeaker!) and Russia´s Maria Sharapova (The Shrieker!) going for it!
I wonder where in the WORLD we´ll be when the finals are on - midflight somewhere!!!
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Were waiting to catch our flight to New Zealand! It´s going to take THREE DAYS to get to NZ! We´re going from Santiago to Auckland, via Los Angeles! And, we´ll be waiting around in LA airport for 12 hours!
It seems such an odd way to go doesn´t it! It´s the only flight we could get, unless we go in March! That´s what happens when you extend flights in a round the world ticket..you get the next available flight.....!
We´ve had such a wonderful time here...and...will miss the place!
It´s sad..to be leaving South America. We´ve really felt close to the people and culture here. Soul mated with the country! If you can do such a thing! We´ve learned a lot more Spanish and understand what people say to us. It´s sad to be saying Goodbye...
We feel we´ve only just touched on the place! And have so much more to see! We really want to come back..and to especially see the north of South America (Venezuela and Colombia) and Middle America! (Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama and the Bahamas!!) That´s our next BIG plan!!! For we´re not sure when! ha!
South America is such a large continent! Bigger than i ever dreamed! The coastline spreads over such a vast land..and to get anywhere, it takes hours, by plane and more so by car or bus.
Just to give you and idea of how big South America is...it consists of an area of 17,840,000 square kilometers and covers almost 3.5% of the Earth's surface!
It´s population is estimated at more than 380,000,000 and growing! It ranks fourth in area (after Asia, Africa, and North America) and fifth in population (after Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America)...
A BIG PLACE eh?
Which is why we couldn´t even touch on it. But we did try! We loved Peru, Argentina and Brasil...and all the other places of course..but these had the greatest effect and made the biggest impact on us..
It will be strange going to New Zealand..and actually be in a country where we don´t have any language obstacles..we´ll probably have culture shock!!!!
But! Onwards we surge. On our route homewards.......
We´ll see you in Auckland! Hopefully we´ll survive our horror trip from Santiago to Auckland..via Los Angeles!!! It´s WORSE than the midnight horror... THREE DAYS and THREE LOST NIGHTS - including time changes - to get there!
We´ll let you know if we survive....
:-)
xxx
