Dear Reader (2026-03-20 – posted simultaneously to FB),
First of all to my newer FB friends and website subscribers, welcome to my small outpost in the digital ether. My collection of completed projects can be found on my website under the menu item “The Audries”. Today’s post is the first in a new a series based on my recent 4 week wander to Easter Island (Isle de Pascua – Spanish; Rapa Nui – Polynesian), in and around Santiago, and to Bolivia. In a break with tradition I will keep this first post brief and save the beverage post until the next post or two. As per usual, posts in this series will follow at random intervals.
Flights
Over the course of 4 weeks I had 11 flights on 4 different airlines. The travel gods were kind to me. In all cases both I and my luggage arrived together at a time right enough and at the right place. Here is the summary of flights.
~ Calgary -> Toronto -> Montreal -> Santiago -> Rapa Nui
~ Rapa Nui -> Santiago
~ Santiago – >La Paz
~ La Paz -> Uyuni -> La Paz
~ La Paz -> Bogota -> Toronto -> Calgary
Notes on Photos (Airports by Phone Camera)
~ 01 – De-icing in Calgary
~ 02 – Montreal in evening light
~ 03 – Santiago airport
~ 04 to 06 – Rapa Nui international airport with chicken. The airport runway was constructed in 1987 by NASA in case an emergency landing strip was required for the Challenger program.
~ 07 to 08 – Uyuni, Bolivia
~ 09 – Those are not clouds – looking down on the Uyuni salt flats
~ 10 – Leaving Bogota
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Cheers, Sean
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I’ve been following along as the images are posted, but only now getting around to commenting. As a preface, my father was an airline pilot, and some of my vivid childhood memories are around airports and plane flights. It was a time of no security checks, paper tickets with red ink and carbon paper, actual food served with steel cutlery, men wearing suits, women wearing nice dresses, and everybody was polite. Alas, that time is long gone. Commercial aviation is a terrible experience, and that’s when everything is working as designed. It doesn’t take much to descend into hell on earth. Everything hurts just thinking about such a series of flights, in an economy seat. I’m actually seriously wondering if I ever want to get on an airplane again.
3. Window and reflection images are fun.
4. So unlike airports in Canada where you get off the plane in the middle of the tarmac. There is a set of lines, with people watching to make sure you don’t stray. I once strayed ever so slightly off the carpet in a palace in Florence, I think, and the guide gave me a glare that curdled my liver and told me I’d be ejected from the building if I did that again.
9. I can think of some interesting photos to be done on the salt flats, with a willing and tolerant model.