Archive for January, 2006
Tuesday, January 31st, 2006
Your horoscope
Scorpio
You can`t remember how you first got in trouble with the Japanese mafia, but constantly mistaking them for the Chinese mafia hasn`t helped matters.
The Onion
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Thursday, January 26th, 2006
Torres Del Paine
Ah Chile and the Torres. The photos are slowly uploading, but it was by far the most spectacular hiking I have ever done. Of course, the longest previous hike I ever did was two days in Zion, so perhaps doing 85 km over 4 days should not really be fairly compared to anything else. Lots [...]
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Friday, January 20th, 2006
Travel Tips: Argentina
So I am starting a little section called travel tips on my blog. It is for the little things that everyone should know about traveling. Of course, there are people with much more knowledge on this subject, but I may be the most knowledgeable person about traveling to the folks actually reading this thing….which is [...]
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Thursday, January 19th, 2006
Initial thoughs on Chile
Here`s doping the old adage, “you never get a second chance to make a first impression” doesn`t hold true about Chile.
While I was quite grateful for the ease through which I passed through the border, these were my first reactions:
The town here is uglier than the town I just left. Hardly fair to categorize an [...]
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Thursday, January 19th, 2006
Day 21, Dec 28th.
Day 21, Dec 28th.
Stretch: The Road from Villa Angostura to Bariloche 80 KM
Conditions: Mostly ideal. You spend the first 40 plus kilometers next to a lake, and then you have one or two climbs with the wind at your back. Note: Be careful when you hit the T junction and male the right turn to [...]
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Thursday, January 19th, 2006
Bad Karma (Responses and Updates)
So my last comment about any potential bad karma involving not going out of my way elicited several responses from people: two of which I would like to share with you here. (Significantly, both of the people were with me in Japan, which should tell you something about my lack of exaggeration concerning the ease [...]
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2006
Bad Karma
Ok…stay away from me for a little while until I pay off my karmic debt….I was a bad boy.
So me and Z, the ex raver from UCSD who I found in Bariloche…small World huh, stumble into el Calafate alter a solid seven hours of hiking and an amazing 5 hours on a bus.
Shattered isn´t even [...]
