Okay. So I made it to London and have been able to see three of my friends so far. I am hoping to see another tonight! The city of London is great. Very easy to walk around. I usually don't like to visit the same place twice as you all probably know by now but this is where I got bit by the travel bug fourteen years ago, so it's great to see again and now I know how it happened cause this city is pretty cool.
For some reason I can't get WiFi on my phone right now but I can get it on the kindle. Weird right? So I decided to post a very quick blog. Hostel life feels a bit different this time around then in south America. I seem to not have the best of roommates but it only lasts a day so who cares. Last night there was some foam party that the people in my room went to. They came in late and with friends so instead of it being a four person room it was a six. Things like that about me esp in the night cause I don't have the energy to say anything.
I fly to Berlin tomorrow and stay for a couple days and then head to Munich. Yay! I am seeing three friends in Munich plus it's Oktoberfest.
Hope all is good back home.
Saturday, September 28, 2013
Wednesday, September 4, 2013
all planned out... well... kinda
to say i'm ALL planned out is a lie... but to say that the flights are planned is the truth.
i had booked my flights from zurich to singapore (10/19) and singapore to boston (2/5) a couple weeks back. maybe there was a post about it and maybe there wasn't. i'm not sure. but anyway... i had those for a couple weeks but was waiting on stuff with unemployment (i needed to attend an info session) before booking my flight from boston to london. once i got unemployment squared away yesterday i called united to rebook my canceled reservations from april. it was a bit of pain to start off with as the rep on the other end was telling me i had a pin. P-I-N. yes, i know what a pin is, but i never got one. and then having to reconfirm that this reservation i was making was to be booked with the miles used from my canceled itinerary... it just got frustrating. BUT... it ended up working in my favor cause they never charged me a change fee. even on the website it says that it would be $75. so... my flight to london was pretty much free. yippee!
i fly to london on tuesday 9/24. i had to book at least 3 weeks in the future to reuse these miles, so i won't be traveling around nearly as much as i thought i would. i had planned on going to berlin, krakow, and prague in addition to the other cities, but.... i probably only have time for one now. which one to pick?? but anyway... so i get to london super early on the 25th. wahoo. i am ever so fortunate to be able to stay with my friend adaeze (pronounced "a daisy" like my favorite flower) who i met in brazil two summers ago. i didn't think she was even going to be in town when i was there. so what a treat that i get to see her! and how amazingly awesome she is for letting me stay with her in her flat!! i will also be meeting up with frank who i met in peru and is from peru, nicolo who i met in buenos aires and is originally from italy, and possibly andy who i met in colombia and is from the uk. so psyched! i plan on staying in london for a couple days... then i have to figure out where i want to go after... i'm leaning towards either berlin or prague. SO hard to pick. somewhere new or somewhere that i LOVE. prague is an amazing city and everyone who i've met has loved it there. no one ever says anything bad about prague. BUT i also enjoy seeing new places. i guess if this is the problem that i'm having then my life isn't so bad.
i will be in munich for oktoberfest 10/2-10/6 meeting up with friends i met in colombia - luke from ireland and fabienne from switzerland. and hopefully nadine from germany and maybe even helen! should be a fun time. i'm not sure how i'm going to be able to handle drinking with luke and crew at oktoberfest, but i'll try to do my best. haha.
after munich is zurich where i will be seeing my friend helen. yay! i wouldn't mind making a pit stop to lichtenstein too. it's a little out of the way but how much fun it would be to go to one of the smallest countries in the world. i think at it's widest, it's 5 miles. i can walk across it. haha. haven't been to zurich ever (only lucern in switzerland) so it will be good to explore. the evening of 10/9 i fly out to singapore.
and then the adventure begins. i don't really have anything planned.. i have an idea of how i want to go, but i'm leaving it fairly open ended. meeting up with huan in vietnam in december i'm guessing. and also may be going to the maldives to see adaeze there! that wasn't even on my radar as a place to go, but it sounds exciting so i'm looking into it. :)
it's all coming together. i'm completely psyched! i can't believe i leave in under three weeks! wow!
i had booked my flights from zurich to singapore (10/19) and singapore to boston (2/5) a couple weeks back. maybe there was a post about it and maybe there wasn't. i'm not sure. but anyway... i had those for a couple weeks but was waiting on stuff with unemployment (i needed to attend an info session) before booking my flight from boston to london. once i got unemployment squared away yesterday i called united to rebook my canceled reservations from april. it was a bit of pain to start off with as the rep on the other end was telling me i had a pin. P-I-N. yes, i know what a pin is, but i never got one. and then having to reconfirm that this reservation i was making was to be booked with the miles used from my canceled itinerary... it just got frustrating. BUT... it ended up working in my favor cause they never charged me a change fee. even on the website it says that it would be $75. so... my flight to london was pretty much free. yippee!
i fly to london on tuesday 9/24. i had to book at least 3 weeks in the future to reuse these miles, so i won't be traveling around nearly as much as i thought i would. i had planned on going to berlin, krakow, and prague in addition to the other cities, but.... i probably only have time for one now. which one to pick?? but anyway... so i get to london super early on the 25th. wahoo. i am ever so fortunate to be able to stay with my friend adaeze (pronounced "a daisy" like my favorite flower) who i met in brazil two summers ago. i didn't think she was even going to be in town when i was there. so what a treat that i get to see her! and how amazingly awesome she is for letting me stay with her in her flat!! i will also be meeting up with frank who i met in peru and is from peru, nicolo who i met in buenos aires and is originally from italy, and possibly andy who i met in colombia and is from the uk. so psyched! i plan on staying in london for a couple days... then i have to figure out where i want to go after... i'm leaning towards either berlin or prague. SO hard to pick. somewhere new or somewhere that i LOVE. prague is an amazing city and everyone who i've met has loved it there. no one ever says anything bad about prague. BUT i also enjoy seeing new places. i guess if this is the problem that i'm having then my life isn't so bad.
i will be in munich for oktoberfest 10/2-10/6 meeting up with friends i met in colombia - luke from ireland and fabienne from switzerland. and hopefully nadine from germany and maybe even helen! should be a fun time. i'm not sure how i'm going to be able to handle drinking with luke and crew at oktoberfest, but i'll try to do my best. haha.
after munich is zurich where i will be seeing my friend helen. yay! i wouldn't mind making a pit stop to lichtenstein too. it's a little out of the way but how much fun it would be to go to one of the smallest countries in the world. i think at it's widest, it's 5 miles. i can walk across it. haha. haven't been to zurich ever (only lucern in switzerland) so it will be good to explore. the evening of 10/9 i fly out to singapore.
and then the adventure begins. i don't really have anything planned.. i have an idea of how i want to go, but i'm leaving it fairly open ended. meeting up with huan in vietnam in december i'm guessing. and also may be going to the maldives to see adaeze there! that wasn't even on my radar as a place to go, but it sounds exciting so i'm looking into it. :)
it's all coming together. i'm completely psyched! i can't believe i leave in under three weeks! wow!
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
why oh why?
why oh why oh why am i dragging my feet on booking my next trip? i'd like an answer on this. and i feel like i know it but i don't want to realize it. or something like that.
i've decided to go to europe to visit friends that i met on my travels... start in london. go to munich october 2-6 to meet up with luke and friends for oktoberfest. can't believe i will have gone to two oktoberfests in my lifetime. my life is great. i also want to go back to prague and visit poland. and fly from warsaw to singapore. travel southeast asia for 4 months (i'll be missing thanksgiving, christmas and new years) then coming back to boston.
that sounds like i'm trying to do a lot. am i? i can work along the way maybe... in a hostel or something. maybe be able to teach english. not sure on the qualifications.
last night i went to an info session about the peace corps. yes, i'm thinking of enrolling there as well. i pretty much have decided that having a "normal" life is not for me. the thought of settling down to one place, owning a house, having kids or even getting married is just stifling to me. i know it works for a lot of people... but for me, i think i need more of a helter skelter life (thank you chris mccandless). i miss the meeting new people EVERY day. i was just talking to my friend in london about it. he mentioned it and i couldn't agree more. eventually you do get sick of saying the same things over and over... but overall... my goodness it's great.
okay.... more to come on booking my trip.... i just needed to get that off my chest apparently.
i've decided to go to europe to visit friends that i met on my travels... start in london. go to munich october 2-6 to meet up with luke and friends for oktoberfest. can't believe i will have gone to two oktoberfests in my lifetime. my life is great. i also want to go back to prague and visit poland. and fly from warsaw to singapore. travel southeast asia for 4 months (i'll be missing thanksgiving, christmas and new years) then coming back to boston.
that sounds like i'm trying to do a lot. am i? i can work along the way maybe... in a hostel or something. maybe be able to teach english. not sure on the qualifications.
last night i went to an info session about the peace corps. yes, i'm thinking of enrolling there as well. i pretty much have decided that having a "normal" life is not for me. the thought of settling down to one place, owning a house, having kids or even getting married is just stifling to me. i know it works for a lot of people... but for me, i think i need more of a helter skelter life (thank you chris mccandless). i miss the meeting new people EVERY day. i was just talking to my friend in london about it. he mentioned it and i couldn't agree more. eventually you do get sick of saying the same things over and over... but overall... my goodness it's great.
okay.... more to come on booking my trip.... i just needed to get that off my chest apparently.
Thursday, August 1, 2013
as i'm thinking of my next journey...
excerpts from the book "into the wild" by jon krakauer which i instantly fell in love with....
"i'd like to repeat the advice i gave you before, in that i think you really should make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing or been too hesitant to attempt. so many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. the very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. the joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. if you want to get more out of life, ron, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. but once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty."
"don't settle down and sit in one place. move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon. you are still going to live a long time, ron, and it would be a shame if you did not take the opportunity to revolutionize your life and move into an entirely new realm of experience."
"you will see things and meet people and there is much to learn from them. and you must do it economy style, no motels, do your own cooking, as a general rule spend as little as possible and you will enjoy it much more immensely."
only on page 58 of a 203 page book... these are the people who inspire me to travel... to get out and see the world. and i thank them, because the world is awesome and amazing. thank you chris mccandless for being a free spirit and following your heart and passion to see something outside the norm. and jon krakauer for putting the pieces together so that i could read about it. it's kinda the modern day "on the road".
"i'd like to repeat the advice i gave you before, in that i think you really should make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing or been too hesitant to attempt. so many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. the very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. the joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. if you want to get more out of life, ron, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. but once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty."
"don't settle down and sit in one place. move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon. you are still going to live a long time, ron, and it would be a shame if you did not take the opportunity to revolutionize your life and move into an entirely new realm of experience."
"you will see things and meet people and there is much to learn from them. and you must do it economy style, no motels, do your own cooking, as a general rule spend as little as possible and you will enjoy it much more immensely."
only on page 58 of a 203 page book... these are the people who inspire me to travel... to get out and see the world. and i thank them, because the world is awesome and amazing. thank you chris mccandless for being a free spirit and following your heart and passion to see something outside the norm. and jon krakauer for putting the pieces together so that i could read about it. it's kinda the modern day "on the road".
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
being home for a month...
so yeah, i never thought i would be home for a month but... i have been. and overall it's okay. i KNOW i will get back out into the world... i know i will, so i'm not completely depressed on being back here. i waited a while to get my passport back but... YAY... it's back. i just need to swing home and pick it up.
boston is great in the summer. it really is. i love sitting on patios with friends drinking beer, having it be light out until about 830, the warmth and even a bit of the humidity (coming from cartagena, colombia... the humidity we have here is nothing), and honestly this whole boston strong feel that we have going on is pretty remarkable. it reminds me of why i love this city. or, as i like to say, this town.
my comfort in boston would not have been completely possible without some wonderful and generous friends who have let me stay at their houses. amber and william just bought a new house in medford and graciously let me stay for two weeks. a beautiful home which keeps getting more beautiful each day with their renovations. and... i even got to be a dog-liker. i can't say dog-lover. i'm not there yet. but i actually... kinda like dogs. jasper was great. i didn't mind holding his paws as he jumped on me. that is a HUGE step for me. and anyone reading this probably knows that.
and now i stay with dustin who has welcomed me into his home for what is going on three weeks. this home is a place to feel ridiculously comfortable. which... sigh... now i just want to stay the rest of the summer in boston. plus, within walking distance to davis square dustin and i have managed to enjoy one or two or maybe even three of the establishments which serve beer in davis... and yeah... we have tried all the local beer that isn't hoppy. no IPAs for us, thank you. it's been fun. being in davis reminds me so much of why i love boston and the surrounding area. even talking about the electoral college while drinking 9% beer.
but no matter how comfortable i am in the area, my heart is truly on the road. it really is. i just started the book "vagabonding" by rolf potts and oh my goodness... this book is seriously my travel bible. it is like reading my diary. if i could write about my travels about everything i feel... this would be the book. it just would. i'm half way through. (it's only 205 pages) and i want to tell everyone who loves to travel and ditch their job and just go.... to read this book. i wanted to cry when i read some of the writing in this book because he just gets it. i mean, he's done it, so obviously he gets it... but... it's just such a great book. it won't ever convince a skeptic to start traveling or to make a drastic life change, but for those who are pondering the idea, i think the scales will tip once they read it. or even start reading it.
so yeah, now to plan southeast asia. a whole new world. it won't be like south america... and i'm getting the butterflies in the stomach just thinking about SEA but those are awesome butterflies to have. they really are. because once you overcome them, and you will, then you become a stronger, more aware traveler and person. :)
boston is great in the summer. it really is. i love sitting on patios with friends drinking beer, having it be light out until about 830, the warmth and even a bit of the humidity (coming from cartagena, colombia... the humidity we have here is nothing), and honestly this whole boston strong feel that we have going on is pretty remarkable. it reminds me of why i love this city. or, as i like to say, this town.
my comfort in boston would not have been completely possible without some wonderful and generous friends who have let me stay at their houses. amber and william just bought a new house in medford and graciously let me stay for two weeks. a beautiful home which keeps getting more beautiful each day with their renovations. and... i even got to be a dog-liker. i can't say dog-lover. i'm not there yet. but i actually... kinda like dogs. jasper was great. i didn't mind holding his paws as he jumped on me. that is a HUGE step for me. and anyone reading this probably knows that.
and now i stay with dustin who has welcomed me into his home for what is going on three weeks. this home is a place to feel ridiculously comfortable. which... sigh... now i just want to stay the rest of the summer in boston. plus, within walking distance to davis square dustin and i have managed to enjoy one or two or maybe even three of the establishments which serve beer in davis... and yeah... we have tried all the local beer that isn't hoppy. no IPAs for us, thank you. it's been fun. being in davis reminds me so much of why i love boston and the surrounding area. even talking about the electoral college while drinking 9% beer.
but no matter how comfortable i am in the area, my heart is truly on the road. it really is. i just started the book "vagabonding" by rolf potts and oh my goodness... this book is seriously my travel bible. it is like reading my diary. if i could write about my travels about everything i feel... this would be the book. it just would. i'm half way through. (it's only 205 pages) and i want to tell everyone who loves to travel and ditch their job and just go.... to read this book. i wanted to cry when i read some of the writing in this book because he just gets it. i mean, he's done it, so obviously he gets it... but... it's just such a great book. it won't ever convince a skeptic to start traveling or to make a drastic life change, but for those who are pondering the idea, i think the scales will tip once they read it. or even start reading it.
so yeah, now to plan southeast asia. a whole new world. it won't be like south america... and i'm getting the butterflies in the stomach just thinking about SEA but those are awesome butterflies to have. they really are. because once you overcome them, and you will, then you become a stronger, more aware traveler and person. :)
Saturday, June 1, 2013
being back home...
what does that even mean? i feel like through my travels, home became wherever i was... whether i was there for a day or three weeks. and now i'm back in boston. i guess that is what i should say. not back home, but back in boston.
a lot of people have asked me why i'm back... and well, i am not really sure. i got a bit complacent when i was in buenos aires. i love that city and spent three weeks there, but towards the end it got a bit too comfortable. and i felt like i needed to be uncomfortable again. plus... my parents kept asking when i would be home, a friend's wedding in june... and... some other things. so i felt like that was what i needed to do.. go to boston for a bit. but i booked my return flight from bogota. i got to colombia... and realized, all i needed was somewhere new. i had already told several people i was going back to boston, so i felt like i couldn't back out. and i had it in my mind (still have it in my mind) that this will just be a short stop. after traveling for almost five months, seeing something new everyday, meeting someone new everyday, that is just what i'm use to. i'm not use to the everyday life. did i get sick of introducing myself everyday? of course i did, but ya wanna know what? i would take that back any second now. :)
to pump myself up for being back in boston, i have to think about things that i look forward to....
+ bbq sauce, peanut butter, spicy foods - you can barely find ANY of them in south america... i missed these throughout my entire trip and if someone asked if i missed anything from back home, it was always these three things.
+ good beer - okay, so i probably could have lumped this in with the food, but... south american beer is so... blah. there was only one that i had that i could actually say was good... and that was club colombia. was so happy to go to on the border in the airport in orlando and order a sam summer!
+ not having to figure out where certain symbols are on keyboards - the @ symbol was alway alt gr + either 2 or q. the _ and the ? seemed to jump spots at every keyboard. and sometimes keyboards looked like keyboards from the states, but the keys were all different
+ doing laundry whenever i want - well, okay i guess i could have done this more often on the road, but when you're also looking to saving a buck, you tend to wear things a little bit longer than usual. or you wear things two days in a row, and wear it to bed. yes, that is what you do, and i thought that was kinda gross at first, but you just do it. and so does everyone else. but when you did do laundry (which was always drop it off at some place and pick it up the next day), you would pull out every single piece of clothing and smell it. it was one of the best things.
+ sleeping without earplugs - while i got use to hostel life and sharing a room, sometimes it was a drag. waking up with one earplug in and one out and trying to find the other one... just annoying. esp when there is some dude snoring away in your room.
+ throwing toilet paper in the toilet - in south america you throw it out in a trash can. all the trash. whether a number one or a number two. i got so use to this, though, that when i went to the bathroom in orlando, i threw it out in the trash. oops! at least it was only a number one.
+ being able to drink tap water - and not have to worry. yes, you could drink it in most places in argentina and some places in colombia. but it was always a "should i? or shouldn't i?"
+ not carrying money in my boobs - okay, maybe i still do it occasionally when i'm in the states, but i don't have that "this is my safety money in case i get robbed" thought. it is more of a convenient way of carrying it if i don't feel like bringing out a bag. and for the record, i didn't get anything stolen. came close though.
+ seeing friends and family - i've seen my family and a couple of friends and it has been good. my parents aren't travelers, so they barely even asked me how my trip was. which, is very frustrating to me, but i know that my friends will be super excited to see me and find out what i have been up to. and if possible i would like to meet up one on one, because then i get to talk about my travels even more. :) haha. selfish, yes.
i'm sure there are other things, but those things come to mind. i really want this to be fairly quick to be at home because getting settled means getting back into real life. and no offense, but real life kinda blows. i want to head on over to southeast asia for a couple months. it is meant to be really awesome. i need more pages in my passport though. i only have two fully free pages. it was three until the nice guy at colombia customs stamped me out of colombia on a free page. nice guy, though. he asked me what foods i tried in colombia. and actually, the guy at customs in the states (i usually don't like the states' custom people) was really cool. he was fascinated at all the countries i went to - 7 (ecuador, brazil, argentina, peru, chile, uruguay, and colombia) and said he missed his chance at backpacking. i told him that he didn't cause i met people in their fifties and even a guy who was seventy. i hope he rethinks it and goes out to see the world, cause it is massive and awesome!
a lot of people have asked me why i'm back... and well, i am not really sure. i got a bit complacent when i was in buenos aires. i love that city and spent three weeks there, but towards the end it got a bit too comfortable. and i felt like i needed to be uncomfortable again. plus... my parents kept asking when i would be home, a friend's wedding in june... and... some other things. so i felt like that was what i needed to do.. go to boston for a bit. but i booked my return flight from bogota. i got to colombia... and realized, all i needed was somewhere new. i had already told several people i was going back to boston, so i felt like i couldn't back out. and i had it in my mind (still have it in my mind) that this will just be a short stop. after traveling for almost five months, seeing something new everyday, meeting someone new everyday, that is just what i'm use to. i'm not use to the everyday life. did i get sick of introducing myself everyday? of course i did, but ya wanna know what? i would take that back any second now. :)
to pump myself up for being back in boston, i have to think about things that i look forward to....
+ bbq sauce, peanut butter, spicy foods - you can barely find ANY of them in south america... i missed these throughout my entire trip and if someone asked if i missed anything from back home, it was always these three things.
+ good beer - okay, so i probably could have lumped this in with the food, but... south american beer is so... blah. there was only one that i had that i could actually say was good... and that was club colombia. was so happy to go to on the border in the airport in orlando and order a sam summer!
+ not having to figure out where certain symbols are on keyboards - the @ symbol was alway alt gr + either 2 or q. the _ and the ? seemed to jump spots at every keyboard. and sometimes keyboards looked like keyboards from the states, but the keys were all different
+ doing laundry whenever i want - well, okay i guess i could have done this more often on the road, but when you're also looking to saving a buck, you tend to wear things a little bit longer than usual. or you wear things two days in a row, and wear it to bed. yes, that is what you do, and i thought that was kinda gross at first, but you just do it. and so does everyone else. but when you did do laundry (which was always drop it off at some place and pick it up the next day), you would pull out every single piece of clothing and smell it. it was one of the best things.
+ sleeping without earplugs - while i got use to hostel life and sharing a room, sometimes it was a drag. waking up with one earplug in and one out and trying to find the other one... just annoying. esp when there is some dude snoring away in your room.
+ throwing toilet paper in the toilet - in south america you throw it out in a trash can. all the trash. whether a number one or a number two. i got so use to this, though, that when i went to the bathroom in orlando, i threw it out in the trash. oops! at least it was only a number one.
+ being able to drink tap water - and not have to worry. yes, you could drink it in most places in argentina and some places in colombia. but it was always a "should i? or shouldn't i?"
+ not carrying money in my boobs - okay, maybe i still do it occasionally when i'm in the states, but i don't have that "this is my safety money in case i get robbed" thought. it is more of a convenient way of carrying it if i don't feel like bringing out a bag. and for the record, i didn't get anything stolen. came close though.
+ seeing friends and family - i've seen my family and a couple of friends and it has been good. my parents aren't travelers, so they barely even asked me how my trip was. which, is very frustrating to me, but i know that my friends will be super excited to see me and find out what i have been up to. and if possible i would like to meet up one on one, because then i get to talk about my travels even more. :) haha. selfish, yes.
i'm sure there are other things, but those things come to mind. i really want this to be fairly quick to be at home because getting settled means getting back into real life. and no offense, but real life kinda blows. i want to head on over to southeast asia for a couple months. it is meant to be really awesome. i need more pages in my passport though. i only have two fully free pages. it was three until the nice guy at colombia customs stamped me out of colombia on a free page. nice guy, though. he asked me what foods i tried in colombia. and actually, the guy at customs in the states (i usually don't like the states' custom people) was really cool. he was fascinated at all the countries i went to - 7 (ecuador, brazil, argentina, peru, chile, uruguay, and colombia) and said he missed his chance at backpacking. i told him that he didn't cause i met people in their fifties and even a guy who was seventy. i hope he rethinks it and goes out to see the world, cause it is massive and awesome!
Monday, May 20, 2013
in 10 days....
sorry i have not kept up with this blog in quite some time. i have much to update... but just wanted to let you know that i will be home in 10 days... may 30th at night. i am hoping that this is a short trip home... a month max... before heading off again. i need to get more pages in my passport... and hopefully a visa for vietnam. i think that southeast asia is my next stop.
i am in medellin, colombia right now and have met some good people and pretty much like this city as well. weird to think of all the changes that happened here in recent years with the death of pablo escobar. flying to santa marta tomorrow... and then go to cartagena where i meet up with a guy i met in valparaiso, chile. will be good to see him again. i love being able to meet up with friends again. it´s great.
but anyway... i am almost done cooking up a stir fry so i gotta go so that it doesn´t burn. would love to see you all for a bit while i am home so give me a ring or a text.
i am in medellin, colombia right now and have met some good people and pretty much like this city as well. weird to think of all the changes that happened here in recent years with the death of pablo escobar. flying to santa marta tomorrow... and then go to cartagena where i meet up with a guy i met in valparaiso, chile. will be good to see him again. i love being able to meet up with friends again. it´s great.
but anyway... i am almost done cooking up a stir fry so i gotta go so that it doesn´t burn. would love to see you all for a bit while i am home so give me a ring or a text.
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