Annaquest

Today Karen and I went for a drive around Valpariso to try and map out the streets our next group will be prayer walking. Streets in Chile are funny things. Since they've built up into the hills, most of them are pretty steep with houses that share the same outside walls. The street signs are usually spray painted on the sides of the house, or not mentioned at all. As we drove, it was my job to figure out these names and draw a map that will be helpful to the northerners. Not so difficult...just remembering what it looked like when we got home was the challenge!

Streets range from two lanes to very narrow. Some are one way, and you just don't know until you see a car driving that direction. The craziest thing I saw today was when we came to one street that had a drop off--no warning. There were stairs for the sidewalk going down...even what looked like a hand rail for a car taking a nose dive down the street! I'll try and get a picture next time we're out.