Archive for November, 2005
Monday, November 28th, 2005
21st century nomads
What are 21st century Nomads?
21st century nomads are people who organize their lives on where they are going to next. Perhaps the most significant departure is that we don´t feel the need to get a home only to cram it with stuff. Filling our homes with the latest gadget and tiles or making sure [...]
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Sunday, November 27th, 2005
Omero
I am not sure if it is this crazy computer or the amount I had to drink, but I can´t even find Microsoft word on this computer to type. I am in Documento-Word Pad…got to love the Spanish….because it is a sure bet that the Japanese equivalent would not have been so understandable.
God I [...]
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Friday, November 25th, 2005
Goooooaaallllll!!!!!
There has been only one thing better than attending an actual Argentinean thug laced futbol match, and that has been watching the highlight shows. In all honesty, the actual match was far better than the TV experience, but the match couldn´t compare in one crucial area…not nearly enough ggggggggooooooooaaaaaaallllllllll!!!!!!! If you were like me, the [...]
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Friday, November 25th, 2005
Places to go and things not to drink.
First things first. I don´t know if it is a regional delicacy, or a more nationally or internationally known beverage, but DO NOT drink an Aiconcagua (named after the fourth or fifth highest peak in the world which just happens to be the main local tourist attraction which I may or may not actually get [...]
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Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005
release forms
I _________________________________for just and sufficient consideration, receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, hereby irrevocably grant to ________________________________, your successors and assignees the right to record my likeness and or voice on film or videotape or, to edit such film or videotape at your discretion, to incorporate the same into a documentary tentatively titled ________________________________ [...]
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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005
21st century travelers carry
21st century travelers carry
1 ipod
1 solio (solar powered charger for said ipod)
I speaker for said Ipod
1 book for Swedish penis pump (This is my bag, baby)
1 digital camera, scoffed at by one Ryan. C
1 ginormously obscene digital camera purchased 6 years ago with a 10 time optical zoom that literally weighs 4 kilos (not mine)
1 [...]
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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005
departing B.E.
See you have to be flexible about traveling…thing rarely, if ever, work out the way your planned. For example, I certainly didn´t plan to be separated from my bike and looking at climbing up to Base Camp 1 of Aconcagua without any proper gear…but it looks like that is what is happening. Buenos Aires was [...]
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Saturday, November 19th, 2005
Mendoza
First stop Mendoza. So the first inklings of a plan now exist. We will not be departing B.E. by bike, but instead will take a 1500 KM bus ride up to the Chilean border where we will get off right at the crossing only to cycle downhill for several days to a town, and a [...]
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Thursday, November 17th, 2005
Argentina day one
I forgot how much fun, and how exhausting, learning another language is. It is really a unique sort of tired, which is often co-mingling with a body fatigue due to walking for 6 to 8 hours in a day. In fact, I would probably already be asleep but I am still getting used to the [...]
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Sunday, November 13th, 2005
The ‘friend zone’
When you write about your life, you tend to include bits concerning your friends. I mean, what else could you do without talking about others except conducting some extreme and lengthy internal monologue, and really, who wants to read that. However, you have to balance your desire to talk about your life with your friend’s [...]
