Snow?! WTF?

Here I am in NYC with Mom and Fred, having a little too much fun...until it started snowing today, what is going on?! They said 4-6 inches, and it's freezing! Would you believe that it was as nice here when I arrived on Wed. morning as it was when I left Santiago the night before? Hoping my flight home doesn't get delayed, because I am anxious to get home.

Favorite lines overheard on the streets in Manhattan:
One 16-year-old kid to the other two: Dude, his face lit up like a Christmas tree. Another kid: Really, he was excited? He's gonna go? The first: Yeah, he f****ing loves Rage Against the Machine!

I still have a few days off work, don't have to be back except for one day this week, on Wed., and plenty of time to catch up on my heart and my rest and get settled back into the real life I can't say I've really missed. Well, and see the friends I have missed. Besos!

viva y bien

Just wanted to let you all know i'm alive and má o menos bien. The bus just dropped me from puerto montt (where i came from chiloé) on the side of the freeway outside of Rancagua, about 80km south of Santiago. I'm riding to some hot springs and a national cypress reserve today and then back to Santiago...and then north, I think, for my last few days, to aprovechar el sol y la playa (sun and beach) before I go back to winter in SF.
I'll fill in details later, but it's been a relaxing though challenging week pretty much out of civilization.