the final frontier

When I think about a place I want to visit, the first thing that comes to my mind is Alaska. Everyone I told about this thinks I'm crazy or something like that, and maybe it is a bit true, but I have a thing for remote places, far away from everyone and everything. Traveling to Alaska is one of my biggest dreams, but I don't want to travel for a few days and take some photos, what I want to do is live there, and make an anthropology career there.

To be more specific, I want to be a visual ethnographer, I want to publish and travel, and isolated places are so interesting, also I'm really into Inuit culture. I think I could do a lot of things there.

Anchorage is the city where I would like to live. When you hear about Alaska you probably think about a place in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by bears and wild animals who could eat you alive, well there are some places like that, but that isn't everything. Anchorage is a big city, like any other, it has the same things that a place like Santiago has, but in contact with the nature. There are the big universities, and of course, the Alaska Association of Anthropology.

I would like to have a home trailer to travel everywhere, from Anchorage to more isolated and rural places, to keep moving is a important part of my life, I would say that I'm something like a modern nomad, because I usually spent little time in one place. For example, I'm from Iquique and came to Santiago to study, but before that I keep moving from house to house, so I'm really used to be on the road, and that's how I like to live.

But Alaska, the final frontier, is the ultimate goal. And now that I'm in my fourth year at university, I'm a little closer.