Updates.

So it's been a year since Aneya and I went to live in Santiago, Chile, and six months since we parted ways. Since then we've started our own blogs. Below you can find the links to our respective blogs and check out what we've been up to in the past six months we've been away.

Aneya has gone back to Las Vegas, is attending school, writing, freelancing (sometimes for me!) and, as always, traveling. Aneya writes about life in Sin City on her blog The Chronicles of Aneya.

I moved back to Los Angeles, did some crime reporting/geocoding, then moved back after I got a job as the editor of an English-speaking magazine in Santiago. I just started blogging from here, and will post more on life and my experiences in Santiago, Chile at Chile Part II.

Here's a sample from Aneya's latest post from Chronicles, a reflection of the writing and adventures we had in Chile:

"I spent the first 6 months of the year in Chile, with my friend and fellow writer, Lauren. We blogged daily about our adventures, and by god there were many. We survived earthquakes, aftershocks, post traumatic stress, possible tsunamis, chronic unemployment, illness, theft and, perhaps worst of all- heartbreak. All in the span of 6 months. In a country we'd never stepped foot in, where we knew virtually no one, where everything we did- from getting an apartment to catching a bus- was new to us."

-- Lauren