Palm Desert, CA It was 42 hours door to door to get from Torres del Paine, Chile to Palm Desert, CA for Thanksgiving. It was a pretty morning in Patagonia. […]
Santiago Airport, Chile Today and tomorrow will be marathon travel days: two different 2+hour drives to get to the airport in Punta Arenas, a two hour wait for a three […]
Punta Arenas Airport, Chile Photos aren’t loading well…I posted the ones that go with this post also on FB and Instagram (@seniortennisblog) So while we had no internet, how was […]
Patagonia, Chile This morning we had a drive with stops for photos and at a lovely waterfall, before a hike up above condors’ nests. There we had a 360 degree […]
Patagonia, Chile Today, Saturday was the mountain biking day, which I did try, but flunked. So I walked the same route, which was lovely. We went through moss covered forests, […]
Torres Del Paine, Chile Quick post, have an hour with Internet. Patagonia is amazingly beautiful. From the high peaks to the green valleys, blue lakes and glaciers. We saw dwarf […]
Punta Arenas, Chile From the bottom of the world (where no one seemed to be worrying about how to watch Davis Cup/World Cup tennis). Note: I have put photos into […]
Punta Arenas, Chile I flew from Santiago today where it was going to be in the 90s, to Punta Arenas (via Puerto Montt). It’s around 50 and breezy (for a […]
Santiago, Chile Today I went hiking in Cajon del Maipo in Chile. Cajon means canyon. There are a lot of hikes in the area. I went on a small group […]
Santiago, Chile The final day was a big letdown. I got to the club early for my 10:30 match (8:30) to warm up because there was only one warm up […]
Santiago, Chile Today was a pretty mellow day. I practiced with Andrew M and Marc P in the morning, ran a few errands…got a little currency, hit the Unimarc supermarket, […]
Santiago, Chile It was another beautiful day in Santiago, perfect for playing tennis. I played Graciela Donoso early and won 60 62. Afterwards I watched some tennis and warmed up […]
Santiago, Chile Today I played my first match, against Austria’s Shirley Friedl. She is a nice lefty player, but I played pretty well and the altitude helped my high balls […]
Santiago, Chile What a match between Thiem and Djokovic! Incredible offense and defense. Pleasure to watch both players compete (thanks to atptennistv app…worth it). Onto info from Chile. I scouted […]
Santiago, Chile I’m on the bottom half of the world now, in the Las Condes part of Santiago. The flight from Houston was delayed…not because the plane was late (it […]