Trail at dusk (2025-01-16) - Carlos R. Flores (Author)

When I returned from País Sur, I promised myself that when I started working, the first thing I would do is to save up for a piece of land and start building a house. I had gotten a job in a stable company, so I drew up my financial strategy to get that long-awaited piece of land, which, hopefully, one day I would call my home. At that time I lived in the Kilómetro Nueve sector, not far from the Lucomo Hotel, which as you may know, it went out of business several years ago. It was the winter of 1994. The area was on the outskirts of the city, a setting that was much more rural than urban. I remember that the modest place where I rented was one of those houses that now, with cultural blending, some call townhouses. The small gated community was called "Los Chalés", because of its small two-storey houses and inverted V-shaped roof top, which, apparently, the local architect was inspired – not without several misunderstandings – by a Swiss-style villa, result...