Happy New Year!
We just got back from camping the last 2 nights for our New Year's celebration. We went with a friend of mine that I worked with at Cbeyond a few years ago. We actually couch surfed with someone in Buenos Aires back in October and when we arrived the host told us he had hosted a couple from Denver 3 months prior. He wanted to see if we knew them (I told him no way will we know who they are), he pulled them up on facebook and I couldn't believe my eyes - it was my buddy Greg from Cbeyond! hahaha...
I emailed Greg about how small the world is in that we both couch surfed at the same house - he emailed me back and said they're actually living in Argentina. Wow! Are you kidding me?? How ironic!!
He, his girlfriend, and a friend of theirs came to visit us for the New Year. It was funny to see him - as back at Cbeyond who would have ever thought what was ahead of us...
The place we camped was AWESOME!!! It's called "Islote Las Gaviotas." We seriously got the best spot in the campground.
It's near the famous coastal town, Valparaiso, on the Pacific ocean that puts on the most famous show of fireworks in Chile for New Year's. Our campsite was at the top of some cliffs on a point overlooking the ocean and from this beautiful view we could see Valparaiso for the fireworks that were to launch at midnight.
At this gem of a site we were able to have a breath taking view of the ocean, witness the "Blue moon" for New Years that won't happen again for another 19 years (blue moon happens every 2 1/2 years where there are 2 full moons in one month), and saw wonderful fireworks all the way up the coast line as far as we could see!
To top it off there was an oasis of a beach that was right near our campground that was at the bottom of the cliffs in a little cove. It had gorgeous water, nice waves, soft, clean sand, and little caves all over in the cliffs and huge rock formations coming off the cliffs with caves as well - I felt like I was in Goonies for a bit. The beach was called "Playa Las Docas."
I thought about all of you and wondered what you were all up to... as our celebrations were all several hours apart.
Love you all and Happy New Year from Chile,
Aaron & Jenny
Here's a link to the video I took at the beach "Playa Las Docas"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iYM1FscbHk
Way to go on the campsite! Beautiful. We did not get that lucky on our NYE here. Some people camped right next to us, but turned out being cool so we rang in 2010 with them. The terrain looks a lot like NZ in Chile!
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