View from My Nomad Office: Santiago, Chile
7 Apr 2014
Every Monday morning I post a photo with a view from my “office,” whatever that happens to be at the moment. Some of them, I imagine, might make you jealous, but others will probably make you grateful for your cubicle and your Mr. Coffee machine. At the very least, you’ll get a glimpse of the digital nomad life.
This Monday, along with a photo, you get a brief life update which goes like this: HI. I’M IN CHILE AND I’M ALIVE AND I DIDN’T EVEN FEEL THE BIG EARTHQUAKE BECAUSE IT WAS OVER 2,000 KILOMETERS AWAY. (I did feel a smaller earthquake though and it was INSANE and it even made a lamp fall over. Clearly I am not ready for a big one yet…)
Hopefully that clears things up. And while I am poking a bit of fun, I have to say it feels nice to receive approximately a thousand Facebook messages/tweets/emails asking for confirmation that I am alive. People should do that more often. Thanks guys.
This week’s view: the kitchen table of a friend’s house in Santiago. We’ve been holed up here for the past week, slowly adjusting to an 8-hour time difference, making scavenger hunts with our friends’ four-year-old daughter, polishing our rusty Spanish and feeling a little disinclined to do much else other than catch up on work and sleep. Sometimes I crave normalcy and a little bit of nothing. This week, the exploring begins.
What do you think? Could you work here?
I want to start featuring the offices of other bloggers and travelers in this series. If you have a great “view from your office” shot, please shoot me an email at syd@sydschulz.com!
Happy Monday!
Green grass. I miss that stuff. Nothing but dirty mountains of snow over here.
Glad you’re still alive! :P Also, I think I would like to feel a earthquake, but only a small one (obviously).
Haha, yeah, I always wanted to feel one too! And I’m glad I got a relatively tame one…
Lucky, my office is on a sewage works :) You win!
lol ew sorry!
I am glad you made it safe to Santiago, and that the earthquake was far from you (actually there were 2 big ones in Chile, fortunately without tzunami). I am looking forward to following your travels in South America! We traveled there for 6 months in 2012, it was definitely the most chalenging and probably also the funniest part of our trip.
I was here for 8 months in 2012 too! I wonder if we crossed paths (doubtful seeing as it is a pretty big continent…haha)
Hey Syd,
I slept through my first ever earthquake, it wasn’t a “big” one but the photo’s on the wall were lopsided when I woke up in the morning and some things on shelves were on the floor. I had no idea I was too busy catching the Z’s :)
Totally will e-mail you some views from my office this summer, it’s such a good idea, did you see Olympic Wandering’s doing it last summer whilst she was tour guiding?
Haha yeah I slept through the first one too…But luckily I hadn’t fallen asleep yet for the second one. That’s hilarious about the crooked photos…haha
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Looks pretty nice, I have to say. How long are you going to be staying in Chile?
I’m only here for three weeks this time. Kinda sad. :(
Great idea for a series Syd! Glad you’re alive and only had a “small” earthquake :p I could work anywhere that doesn’t involve my current desk so yes, yes I think I could :)
Lol yeah. I get that.
A nice idea. I have a similar routine with with hotel rooms – first thing I do after dropping my bag is snapping a pic. On their own, the photos are painfully mundane. Viewed together in a slideshow or video, they’re.. slightly less mundane. :)