I’ve already lost track but I’m pretty sure this is my fourth week of traveling through South America. After staying at a smattering of places here and there ranging from my own room to a 12-person dorm to a crammed ferry that included stinky cows, horses, and what we thought was rank feet but was [...]
Entries from December 25th, 2009
It’s the little things in life
December 25th, 2009 · No Comments · South America, Travel
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Motivated by weight
December 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Travel
Sometimes when I’ve finished everything like packing for the next day or locking everything up in my backpack I’ll remember I have to take my vitamins. Though the motivating factor to get out of bed and risk waking others while rummaging through the dark might be to stay healthy while traveling, the majority of the [...]
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Cooking for one on the road
December 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Travel
It’s hard enough buying food and cooking for one at home – at least that was my excuse in LA. But when traveling it becomes more difficult to buy and prepare food when there’s no set plans, and no idea where the next night will be spent and if there will be a fridge, etc. [...]
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Pull-ups required?
December 16th, 2009 · No Comments · South America, Travel
There’s a wet spot on my bed and I’m not sure how it got there but I’m just gonna tell myself that my water bottle leaked because I’ve already touched the spot and don’t wanna think my dormmates did the nasty on my bed. Commence sleeping in fetal position.
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No place is safe!
December 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Travel
If the red bathroom curtain had blown up in the wind, hostellers would have seen the little song and dance I found myself doing while brushing my teeth tonight. When Mosquitos are present I like to flail my limbs (I would flail my muffin top if I had such control over my body) because in [...]
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Does not translate: Five Dollar Footlongs
December 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Travel
One good thing about going abroad Is trying out new foods. But when new foods poison you, sometimes you gotta go back to the familiar stuff, no matter how vanilla it is, and no matter if it also gave you food poisoning once in L.A. So tonight was the second night in a row that [...]
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Preparing for the trip
December 8th, 2009 · No Comments · South America, Travel
Everyone knows that I´m terrible at packing. It´s probably the most dreaded part of traveling for me. I have a highly dorky amount of fun buying things for my trips – but the thought of putting all those things into one centralized location like my backpack makes me want to die. For this trip, I [...]
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The nightmare that is planning
December 8th, 2009 · No Comments · South America, Travel
Once I booked my ticket, I started checking out travel books from the li-barry. I picked up books about Peru, Chile, Brazil, and South America on a Budget, and then let them sit unread because the idea of doing any planning kind of made me wanna die. Even though I knew I wasn´t going to [...]
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Logistics
December 8th, 2009 · No Comments · South America, Travel
The way I saw it, I had a pretty small window of opportunity to backpack around South America and return to the States to become a real person again i.e. find a job and a place to live once my parents move to Taiwan. Magdalena told me the best time to visit Chile was probably [...]
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Where am I and how did I get here?
December 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Travel
For the past several many years, I´ve had it in my head that I needed to go to South America. This was more or less an obsession ever since I lived with Magdalena (who hails from Santiago, Chile) in Brighton, England about seven years ago. As the years passed, I kept telling Magdalena that someday I´d visit Chile, especially after [...]
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