Chile: 1979 & 2003

Bunting practice in Arica. I’m running practice behind the pitcher.
Practice in Arica.
A game at the field by the Olympic pool.
A game in Arica vs. a team from the neighboring (192 miles!) city of Iquique.
Celebration after a game in Antofagasta.
Arica all-star team (10-12 years old) for the 1980 national championship.
Arica all-star team (13-15 years old) for the 1980 national championship.
Future béisbolista.
My room in Arica with Hugo Buitano, my best friend in Chile (1979).
Waiting for the sun to thaw our frozen engine in Parinacota, altitude 14,400 feet, after our night with the schoolteacher and the Nazi (1979).
Twin volcanoes on the altiplano in Lauca National Park, near Parinacota (1979).
Earthquake-damaged church in Poconchile. En route to the altiplano (2003).
Christine and I (and Panchy in the foreground) with llamas in Chucuyo, near Parinacota.
Christine and her toddler friend in Parinacota (population 29 in 2002).
Christine and her friend walking in Parinacota.
Tom with the girl and her mother—who might be one of the kids in the 1979 photo with the frozen VW.
Parinacota 
Christine and Panchy on the Pan-American Highway. It’s a long way down.
A cemetery in the Atacama Desert en route to Parinacota.
Warning en route to Pisagua.
Descending to Pisagua.
Pisagua
Pisagua—he baby football field (center) and the façade of the hotel (left).
Pisagua—the prison.
Pisagua—hotel in left foreground.
Pisagua—part of the anti-junta mural.
Pisagua—the abandoned railroad station.
Pisagua—Panchy and our savior, don Julio, with two five-liter wine jugs filled with gasoline
Pisagua—near don Julio’s compound, overlooking the hotel and prison.
Landing in Arica (2003).
Christine at the Arica airport.
Tom at the welcome sign outside Arica.
El Morro in Arica.
Hugo Buitano’s old house in Arica, ruined by an earthquake.
Plaza Colón in Arica. El Morro and San Marcos Cathedral (designed by Gustave Eiffel, of Eiffel Tower fame) in the background.
Christine, Juan Marcos, Tom, Panchy, Any.
Tom (with extraordinary antlers), Hugo.
The baseball field near Hugo’s house.
With my former player Enrique Vivanco and his team.
At the field.
Tom taking very tentative swings because of his balky back.
Plaza Colón with El Morro.
Tom outside his former lodging in Arica.
Christine about to leave Arica.
On the Pacific coast just south of Arica.
Victor Jara mural.
Arica anti-theft devices: broken glass and barbed wire.
Hugo at La Moneda in Santiago, where Salvador Allende committed suicide after government troops attacked during the golpe (coup) of September 11, 1973.