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To: Chas. who wrote (22303)	11/11/2004 10:27:14 AM
From: kodiak_bull	Respond to of 23153

Chuck, No personal experience in Chile at all, but I see no reason to worry. It is politically stable, not a Muslim country, and developing economically. If you had said Venezuela or Columbia (or the Philippines) I think more research would be in order. People from my wife's church go to Santiago all the time (there is a sister parish relationship) where they work among the poor, building out the parish, etc. All reports are great. You'll be living in better housing, eating better food, with a chance to travel around our great neighbor to the south. What's not to like? You should look into building up a little vacation time in advance and see if you can get a ticket for the same price or slightly incremental which could take you around a bit. For example, maybe there is a way to book the flight NYC to Buenos Aires or Rio return with a first stop in Santiago. Then you fly to Santiago, do your month's work, then fly to BA or Rio on the way home and take 4-5 days off. Edit: there is also Iguassu Falls (also spelled Iguacu) on the Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay border, one of the 3 great falls systems (Victoria, Niagara and Iguassu)--it is astounding. (I did this in a small way in 1986, flew to Sao Paolo to work on a legal deal, finished up on Friday afternoon, then flew back to Rio, spent the weekend, took the Sunday red-eye back to NY and showed up at the office Monday morning, "tall and tan and young and lovely . . ."--well, probably not lovely, but certainly younger then than now . . . For the cost of a cheap hotel room in Copacabana Beach, I had a weekend in Rio!) Kb