I have been in 70 countries and literally every town in Chile with more than 500 inhabitants (probably every town with more than 300 inhabitants), with the single exception of Isla Juan Fernández (population 812), about 1,000 kilometers to the west (off the coast) of Valparaíso. I have seen a lot of waterfalls ... Read More
So, as 2013 draws to a close, it’s time for me to look back at…. Argh! Stupid jet lag! Well, anyway, it’s been long enough; let’s take a look at my goals for last year and see how I did! Strap in, boys and girls; this is gonna be a long one! Successful full-time entrepreneurship: ... Read More
Radio Show Topic First show of 2014: fires, current events, politics, travels to the extreme south, heat, listener questions, slang words, Freedom Orchard update, Tompkins and the southern issues, Dr. Cobin interviewed by Reuters and Chilevisión TV Radio Show Description Segment 1: Fires and heat in Chile, listener question from Aleksey on air ... Read More
Greetings Regular Joes, As a new year begins, I’ve started to take up pen again to post a few updates. It won’t be the regular daily updates I shared when I first started, but will be more often than it has been over the past year. For awhile, all I did was let articles that ... Read More
While it is no secret that the US is severely addicted to debt, what some may find surprising is that over half of all privately held US public debt is held by foreigners. According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the United States accounted for 37.4% of the world’s imported foreign capital in 2012. ... Read More
Greetings Regular Joes, It’s been a while since I’ve posted. Life has been interesting and taken me down some paths I couldn’t have foreseen. All of them continue to have me pondering my options for the future, and I continue to desire to provide for my growing family of grandchildren. Number five is on the ... Read More
If you want to see what interventionism and marxism do to a society, just visit Puerto Aguirre, an island town in the middle of the vast archipelago of Chile’s 11th Region. The ferry ride out of Puerto Cisnes takes http://escapeamericanow.info/puerto-aguirre/
So… it just occurred to me today. Five Years Abroad has failed. The other day, I was talking with an acquaintance about Five Years Abroad, and she asked me why I picked 5 years. Actually, the number of years that I chose was completely arbitrary. I could just as easily have picked 6 years, or ... Read More
Here is a table of the worst earthquakes in Chile’s recorded history. You can do further research by clicking on this link to the source – History of Big Earthquakes in Chile