On to Chile

From Arequipa we boarded a bus (naturally, its how we roll down here) and headed to our last new country on the continent for this trip, Chile. After we experienced a wake up call by a "earthquake" shaking our building and waking us up (we were on the top floor of the highest building we could see in the area), we made our way to Iquique, Chile. Iquique is a city on the beach that apparently Chile is trying to build up as a beach resort destination, there´s even a part of town that sells duty free merchandise, including cars.

Activities for Iquique included the beach, the casino (where we tried our luck at subsidizing the cost of the trip with a little income), and we watched the Departed for $4 dollars apiece, which we thought was a great movie.

Also, this is where we spent Thanksgiving. As you all know, they don´t celebrate this holiday on this continent. Since I hadn´t seen turkey on a menu since arriving in South America, I didn´t spend much time looking. My big Thanksgiving meal this year was a chicken cesear salad, where the cesear dressing is actually just straight mayo.