Monday, December 30, 2013
5:20 AM
Being a loner, came out to get lunch by myself.
So I haven't posted much, haven't even thought to but I've been here about 2 weeks now. Christmas has passed and now just waiting on New Years. Yeah waiting. Boo. I've been feeling way off lately, like I haven't managed to reconnect with anyone. I'm feeling all ugh. So despite hanging out and technically doing stuff, feeling totes empty.
*sigh* I need to fix that somehow. I don't exactly know what's wrong.
I'm very seriously thinking of going to Ecuador for 2 weeks just to kill some time because I'm ending up just cooking and taking my sweet time grocery shopping mostly. Which tbh I enjoy but I'm in another fucking country! I should be seeing shit you know.
I'm giving myself till The day after New Years to decide which is leaving it short, it starts on the 9th of jan.
Anyway. I'm going to wait for my food and listen to podcasts.
*cough*
Bye.
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Monday, December 16, 2013
2:38 AM
I'm waiting at the airport, I left my last hostel. Possibly the last for a long time...unless I decide to go to Bolivia. I'm still not sure. I don't really want to come home. I checked...I couldn't not work for the next 5 years and I wouldn't lose my nurses rego. I clearly can't last that long but I feel better knowing it's not 6 months.
I'm really hoping the Chilean card doesn't get blocked. That way I'll have money flowing in and really could just keep what I have in my account until I come back. That would be excellent.
I don't feel right *sigh*
I feel like crying. I kind of have been. I don't know exactly what it is. I'm upset over Ash...I'm scared that I'll hate Coquimbo when I get back, I'm worried that I won't want to be here either. That's why I'm keeping my options open. I don't necessarily end up stuck with the musos in my home town. They're awesome funny people. But eh, I don't always feel social, especially with the same people over and over. Who knows.
I feel a little lost...kind of alone. I know I'll be fine, that's a given. I have this travelling shit down and I suppose that's one of the scary parts, not feeling like I miss home. Not feeling super attached to anything. Facebook helps, I can talk to my regulars and keep up that sense of friendship.
I don't know what the fuck I'm doing anymore. Guess I never really did. Travelling was always meant to be a getaway plan with no real resolution or end, it was never really about travelling and seeing things, it was about change. I guess I was just hopeful that something interesting would happen, something that might change me for the better. So far I think it has in a way, I feel more confident in myself. I know I can handle anything and taking a bus or a plane and being somewhere new is the same everywhere. I guess I had prepared myself well, I always go to new places within Sydney, it's the same shit. Prepare and go. Seeing beautiful places has been lovely. I've had fun along the way too and crammed a lot of living into a short amount of time.
I've realised I don't really like being around people all that much. I'll do it. But I need a break during the day.
I've learnt that I can travel with much, much less clothing than I thought.
I've realised that crocs are the most versatile shoes ever. The ballet flats are at least.
I've confirmed that I can sleep anywhere and through anything, even while standing on a boat.
Ehhh for 3 months of travel you'd think I would have gotten something else out of this by now. I guess I just feel more comfortable in my own skin. No one can force me to care or do anything and that's okay. I can wear shorts and you can watch my thunder thighs jiggle as I walk past and well, who gives a fuck anymore.
Nothing matters.
I still can't decide if that's a good thing.
I can't stop thinking about what one of the girls in my Brazil trip said, "oh yeah, but you're fearless". I was really surprised when she said that, I'm not some cocky dickhead who jumps head first into trouble, I don't really do anything in particular to show that I'm not particularly afraid. I just, I'm still used to being the shy awkward girl who was afraid of everything, I couldn't even cross the street by myself until I was 14. Afraid to ask for help from strangers or anything that required me to interact with another human being.
I don't know. I guess I'm not scared, I've been like that for awhile though, mostly that comes from having grown up out west I think, everyone always lives in fear and nothing bads ever happened. Also, ehhh once you've gone through the worst that could happen, nothing really does matter, puts things into perspective.
So now it's sort of, either you die or you don't. You'll recover, you'll get over it.
Nothing matters *sigh*
YOLO bitchezzzz
Ha. =.=
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Sunday, December 15, 2013
9:38 AM
I'm so tired. My feet hurt and of course, I should sleep but when there's free wifi I can't. Not just that though. The ash thing has me antsy, he said he was done with me. I think he finally meant it. Beh =( I wish things were easier with us, he's soooo sweet and lame and funny. Good lay too =P ergh =.=
Me and Matt spent the whole day walking Santiago with Guss this Aussie guy were sharing the dorm with. Fuck he didn't shut up the whole day, good bloke (and yes I'm saying bloke, he was very Australian lol) but it made me realise just how much silence I need in the day to feel like my brain isn't frazzled. So not social these days.
We walked all over, missed the morning walking tour and just kept walking ourselves until 3pm when the arvo session started. By then I was already over it all, hot, foodless, ears talked off and a shitty right wing tour leader.
We were meant to go out tonight with the hostel but it got cancelled and now I'm just tiredddddd. We went down into the student bar area last night for two drinks. That was enough for me. Over it all.
I've been having fun and all, I just can't be fucked talking to people or drinking. I just want to dance and no one else does and normally I'm fine to dance alone but I'd rather not be left alone in a and on bar on a Friday night in Santiago =.=
Oh well.
la Serena tomorrow. I can finally sleep in my own bed. ALONE <3
I feel like I might hermit hardcore for a bit. I just need some alone time lol
X
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4:01 AM
It feels fucking odd being here...where it all changed.
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Saturday, December 14, 2013
5:23 AM
WE MADE IT.
And i'm fully caught up on bogging hehe.
We got to our hostel in Santiago not too long ago and it was fairly easy, we got the metro from the bus stop and then walked like 2 blocks =D It's cute, and big. We're in an 8 bed dorm room this time, haven't run into any one from the room yet, looks like a girl and at least 2 boys hmm. We're in Bella Vista which is meant to be the student/cafe area of Santiago. I guess our general plan is foods and drinks seeing as it's Friday. Tomorrow I want to do the two free walking tours and then at night meet up with my cousin Felipe. I should let him know I'm around.
I can't believe I'm actually caught up haha.
Gah I always edit my pics on my laptop and the screen resolutions funny, coz then I see the pics on my phone which has super awesome screen and everything looks over saturated.
Weeeeeeeee
Well I suppose I don't really have anything new to add, nothings happened since my last post a few hours ago haha.
Take care my lovelies <3 p="">
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Friday, December 13, 2013
12:00 PM
Little boxes
Friday 13 dec 12;13pm bus valpa-sant
OKAY i have an hour to do this shit! I'm going to try cover everything basically.
SO me and matt went down Chile and crossed over to Argentina and kept going down until we reached Ushuia, the worlds most southermost city XD. We did it in 16 days and all via bus + a cargo ship. We spent a ridiculous amount of time in transport, especially towards the end. We stupidly decided to take a bus to Ushuia o.o It was going to be 18 hours and ended up being 28 all up D= We were kicking ourselves even harder on the way to Buenos Aires because we went from Ushuia to El Calafate by plane (thats where we got our bus from) and it only took...AN HOUR. yeah. fuck. This leg of our trip was unplanned for the most part, we were using a company called BambaBus which organises buses for you and includes a few tours and you just email them 24 hours prior to when you want to leave and they send you the tickets/deets. It's an incredibly efficient and fast system that they have in place BUT now that we did Valpa by ourselves..and seeing the prices we would have payed for those buses we got...rip off. HEAPS. I mean...potentially we may have just broke even but I don't think so. Now we know *sigh*
So we went:
Santiago
Pucon
Puerto Vara
Crossed over to Argentina
Bariloche
Perito Moreno
El Chalten
El Calfate
Ushuia
I enjoyed it, the hostels were super cheap, a couple places were only $12 a night and really nice compared to the Cross. It defs prepared me for the worst haha. I defs over packed and over prepared for the cold. The worst was probably the final bus to Ushuia (yes there was multiple on the one journey =.=), it was like 3am and FREEZING, and I was exhausted but the cold had a real bite to it that kept waking me up. So I was semi-conscious struggling to keep warm. Argh and stepping off that bus at 5:30am. Man that was a shock to the system. Disoriented and with no where warm to scurry to, we had no place to stay and a tour that was going to pick us up from a hostel we had hoped to stay at but was fully booked lol. So we made our way there and luckily they were nice enough to let us stay there and they would have a room for us when we got back that night from the tour. Yeah that was a painful day lol with lots of coffees and alcohol to keep me awake. But apart form that abrupt entry into Ushuia it wasnt actually that cold.
Recaps might be a little difficult at this stage and because I want to cover Brazil and Valpa real quick I'll do that first.
So when we flew to Buenos Aires we met up with our GAdventure tour group to do the 'Iguassu and Beyond' tour. Overall, disappointing. I defs feel like I missed out on heaps and didn't get a feel for the place or it's people at all. Our tour leader was rubbish and we didn't even do the big cities with the group. I suppose that's my fault though, I didn't read the itinerary closely enough before booking and consider what it meant. We got to B.A and our hotel and 15mins later had our first group meeting and then we went to dinner. The next morning we left bright and early for the airport....we didn't see B.A at all apart from me and Matty wondering a bit around midnight =.= We were hoping to get there earlier and originally had enough days at the end of our Patagonia journey to get there at least 2 days before the tour but two of our buses along the way took too long and we lost our time.
Then I felt like the tour wasted too much time at Iguassu Falls. I've seen that motherfucker from all angles and tbh it still looks like a fucking waterfall no matter which way you look at it. I saw it from a helicopter, from a boat, from the argentinia side, from the brazilian side, from ramps, from below, from above, from the side. I get it. It's wet. Don't care. We spent two full days at the Falls all day long. Too much.
Then we flew to Sao Paulo, completely skipped it, took a long ass bus ride and boat to Paraty, a town that looked a lot like Trinidad in Cuba with the cobblestones but lamer. I was also pretty sick at this stage with a cold and blocked ears from being wet and airconned at the falls. It was humid and I was uninterested. Luckily the second day we did the Caipirinah boat cruise. I will always do a booze cruise if it's offered to me, I don't understand why you wouldn't. OPEN fucking BAR on a boat that takes you to places to swim! Highlight of the tour and one of my favourite days I've ever had tbh. I've never been so drunk for so many consecutive hours and the beaches were pretty and it was the first time I've worn a bikini since i was like 2 haha. Under a tshirt of course but it still counts! lol.
Then we went to Iilha Grande by boat and bus. That place was ridiculously humid when we arrived, it was disgusting. We got some cabin type accommodation but again you couldn't really swim on the actually island beach because it was a port. The full day we had there we spent it getting to and back from this beach that was meant to be amazing but it was soooo not worth the hour boat and 30min walk =.= I did however see those little monkies...fuck what is it called, M something. ... I spent the day with Rhys and Niel the poshy brits who turned out to be gay and not just posh brits haha. It was a nice enough day, I napped on the beach, took my top off in the water so was technically in a bikini in the ocean XD haha It's the small things =P It rained each night in Illha Grande, the first night was spectacular though haha we went to get food with the group at a restaurant on the beach and it was lovely and stormy and then started pouring but we weathered that storm..for a little while, until everyones backs were wet and umbrellas started getting blown away lol.
That whole time I hadn't seen a single person dance, no live music nothing. I was hella dissapointed.
Then we got another boat and bus to Rio de Janiero, my one last hope. Again I was upset because we realised that we didnt even do ANYTHING in Rio with the tour apart from get food. What the fuck man. Every tour I had done this far at least did a quick bus ride around the sites. God. We walked to Cocacabana beach which also had a sever lack of hot people, my mental image of Brazil has been dramatically altered. I was expecting increadible women, sexy booties, music everywhere. Everyone always says that you're going to leave Rio feeling like a fat slob and ugly but I barly saw hot people. There was plenty of good asses...and an oddly large amount of fat chicks with booty shorts. I was dying to know where they bought them so I could get a pair haha but never saw any in the shops we walked past but I didn't look too hard. There was a lot of activity on the beach though, heaps of sports. Rio didn't feel as dangerous as they said it would be but I never entered a Favala =(
The other thing was that the Churasco was hella crap, Sydney takes the cake. Holy crap so much better =(
Argentina's meat was amazing, even at the airport o.o
The ngiht the tour ended was a Saturday night so we ended up at a gay bar which the girls had to pay double for lol. It was alright. Biggest disco ball I've ever seen, the worst gogo dancers, the most self-indulgent collective group of people I've ever seen and the cleanest club toilets ever. There was a strange thing happening in the upstairs dance room, there was mirrors everywhere and HEAPS of dudes would sexy dance...at themselves. For AGES. Just checking themselves out lol. Shameless haha, good dose of self esteem =P
The next day was a bit better because we did an organised city tour with another company and it made me feel like I at least saw the must-see stuff in Rio. Then we met up with one of the left over girls for dinner and got sushi ^.^ Expensive, not the greatest but ehhh. The next day we flew to Chile ^.^
I was in a heaps good mood coming back to Chile, mostly because the doco I watched on the plane and because I knew I had a comfy bed waiting. I made the most of it in The Holiday Inn and went to their indoor heated pool solo and then the sauna...only last like 5 mins haha. The next day we got a feast of a breakfast and made our easiest city transition to date. We got to the bus terminal easily, I had left my big backpack in the airport lockers so I was feeling lite and the possibility of ADVENTURE had me buzzing. We got there heaps easy, and then I called a hostel I found online and got a cab up there. Everything worked out heaps easy and we ended up on the trendy/art hill. Lol always choose your hostels based on their wallpaper =P They gave us a discount because they offered us a room with a lot of traffic noise but we can sleep through anything so we took it. It was lovely and victorian looking with high ceilings and a little sitting room and private bathroom. The next day we did a tonne of walking to see the city and then joined a free walking tour which was absolutely amazing, best tour I've ever done. The tour guides were funny and energetic and really good at summarisng the history and covering everything important and not just boring dates but the sociocultural development of the place. Plus free cookies and pisco sour XD
The next day we went for a cooking class I had organised which was also really really good. We went by bus with the chef to the market with one other lady and got our ingredients and then bused it up the hill to the house and had a lovely day. We all chatted well and learnt how to make pebre (salsa/tabuli thing), pisco sour (cocktail), empanadas (chilean meat pie), pastel de choclo (corn bake/pie) and ceviche (raw fish cooked in lemon juice). It was all tasty and we were so full we didnt have dinner plus got 4 glasses of wine and a pisco sour out of it. Good value for money too and lovely company. Valpa in general was a lot cheaper for us than anywhere else we've been, it was fantastic. Then we made our way to Pablo Neruda's valpa home and did the tour.
Today we had a leisurely breakfast and head off to the bus terminal and that was super easy and CHEAP too. Our hour long coach ride cost us about $7.
I'm pretty pumped, we're meeting up with my cousin tomorrow night and we're getting the metro to get to our hostel XD and I've already got a place lined up for us to stay =) My ticket for La serena for sunday is bought so we're all ready to roll XD
My time with Matty has gone fairly quickly...or maybe just = to what it was but he was a pretty good travel buddy ^.^ he's funny and brilliant with directions and we both know how to do comfortable silence together so its been great.
AHHH i did it! haha I'm pretty much caught up with blogging hehe. I'm caught up with photos too. HAZZAH.
SO I'm really happy =) Im pumped for xmas and new years with the fams and friends I've made. And mum keeps telling me not to come home haha...so I don't know..I was thinking of extending my trip until the last week of jan because I wanted to be home for my bday but now I don't know. I'm thinking I might actually stay longer D=
I mean, I'm going to be heaps busy until new years so then it's only 2 weeks left after that until i would have to fly. And it would be pretty cool to maybe travel up north a bit..or maybe go to Bolivia since it's cheap. The only reason to come home was my bday...but to be honest I feel like I might have more fun in Chile.../ less pressure haha. I am afterall, never going to get a chance to be gone for this long again. I wonder how many times I can change my flight lol. hmm...let's see, my birthdays on a Tuesday. I mean. The reason I wanted to come back then was so I could throw a combined birthday and welcome home party so it feels less douchy lol. I'm also worried about that though haha coz I don't know how I feel about throwing parties. I always swear I'll never do it again after it's done and then I miss it.
I was thinking I could make a cocktail/drink from each place I've been hehe. I'm going to have to bring back some pipenyo to make Terremotos haha. Except we don't really have pinapple ice cream here. Maybe in a gelato store.
I mean, the only responsibility I have left at home is stef's wedding but that's not until 2015 I think.
Freedom...haha it's a nice feeling.
Hmmm and I guess I can mention what I haven't at all in here. Ash. *sigh* that boy. We broke up when I was in Costa Rica. He was getting mad at me really frequently and was getting jealous and couldn't trust me. I ended it when he told me he cheated on me =.= He says he just said that to piss me off. That's worse to me. Ehhh that's not really the point though. We've kept talking and lol...you'd think the fighting would stop but it hasn't. Things are the same. I'm not changing and he isn't either so we're in a war of attrition right now. It's all so icky and annoying. He makes me laugh so much and no ones made me feel as loved as him but I've also NEVER fought with anyone, let alone like the way we do. It's horrible. There's too many problems =( He's currently not talking to me. He was looking through my pics again and got jealous and carried away with his own thoughts *sigh* He said he was done. who knows...
oh well...that's life right. I'm too excited to explore and be with family and friends to let it get to me. Either it works or it doesn't and right now. I'm here. I'm not wasting my time stressing over something that I can't do anything about. I've spent countless hours arguing and explaining my stance and it never changed...and yet I continue to have to reiterate my thoughts. I don't want to keep doing that.
This bus ride feels longer...heh. At least I'm all caught up =D
I'm going to put this away now.
Lovelove
xx
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Monday, December 9, 2013
7:30 PM
Come join the Mile high club.
Mon 9 dec 732pm onboard, buenos aires to santiago
HOLA AMIGOS. I just finished watching a great little doco that's put me in the best mood XD I haven't felt this happy/excited in ages. CUBA <3 awesomeeeee="" back.="" been="" best="" by="" called="" club.="" come="" cuba="" defs="" ever="" fell="" festival="" go="" going="" happens="" high="" i="" in="" is="" it="" join="" just="" karn="" love="" m="" me="" mile="" mind-blowing="" muller="" neatest="" need="" p="" package="" particularly="" place="" plus="" presented="" s="" secet="" showed="" side="" t="" that="" the="" these="" this="" to.="" to="" towns="" two="" uba="" ugh="" ve="" vibe="" was="" wasn="" with="">Mon 9 dec 732pm onboard, buenos aires to santiago
HOLA AMIGOS. I just finished watching a great little doco that's put me in the best mood XD I haven't felt this happy/excited in ages. CUBA <3 awesomeeeee="" back.="" been="" best="" by="" called="" cuba="" defs="" ever="" fell="" festival="" go="" going="" happens="" i="" in="" increadible.="" is="" it="" just="" karn="" love="" m="" me="" mind-blowing="" muller="" neatest="" need="" p="" package="" particularly="" place="" plus="" presented="" s="" secet="" showed="" side="" t="" that="" the="" these="" this="" to.="" to="" towns="" two="" uba="" ugh="" ve="" vibe="" was="" wasn="" with="">I'm onboard a connecting Aircanada flight from Buenos Aires to Santiago. This plane is fucking massive, first time I;m with this airline and wow. First time I see a modern first-class section, trumps Quantas by far. Even the economy toilets are big, totes could comfortably join the mile high club in there. It's been a generally pleasant trip back to Chile. Me and Matty got up at 5am today and got a cab to the airport in Rio de Janeiro, flew in a standardly shit plane to BA and then spent 5 hours waiting in their airport to board the next plane. Only in Argentina could you get good steak in the airport haha and we went for the cheaper option too. Free wifi too so the time flewwwww by.
As usual, I'm hella behind on blogging. I'm about 3 weeks behind and gah so muchhhh happens. I only have like 15mins left on this flight before we land too. Then we're spending the night at the airport in Santiago and seeing if we can get a bus to Valparadiso the day after. I have exactly a week left with Matty before he flies back to Aus and then I fly back to Sydney.
Gah were landing. laptop off.
Ugh ears popping ..nooooo =(
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I'm onboard a connecting Aircanada flight from Buenos Aires to Santiago. This plane is fucking massive, first time I;m with this airline and wow. First time I see a modern first-class section, trumps Quantas by far. Even the economy toilets are big, totes could comfortably join the mile high club in there. It's been a generally pleasant trip back to Chile. Me and Matty got up at 5am today and got a cab to the airport in Rio de Janeiro, flew in a standardly shit plane to BA and then spent 5 hours waiting in their airport to board the next plane. Only in Argentina could you get good steak in the airport haha and we went for the cheaper option too. Free wifi too so the time flewwwww by.
As usual, I'm hella behind on blogging. I'm about 3 weeks behind and gah so muchhhh happens. I only have like 15mins left on this flight before we land too. Then we're spending the night at the airport in Santiago and seeing if we can get a bus to Valparadiso the day after. I have exactly a week left with Matty before he flies back to Aus and then I fly back to Sydney.
Gah were landing. laptop off.
Ugh ears popping ..nooooo =(
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Thursday, December 5, 2013
10:00 AM
On the road to Illa Grande
Thur 5 dec 10am
Hey! So i never kept writting on the plane that day when I finally started blogging. It's been about 4 days so far, 2 location changes and we're onto our third. TBH yesterday was so awesome that I'd rather recap that first instead of continuing with Chile/Argentina.
We spent the last two days in Paraty which is a beach/port town. We took a short plane ride to Sau Paulo and then a 5-ish hour bus ride to Paraty. We had to share a bus and van with another G-Adventure group, that didnt seem to go down too well with a few people which is just dumb. We were alll going to the same place and we all signed up to be shoved around with a bunch of strangers to begin with. Either way I got to go in the van which only had a few people and all from our group, not the most comfortable ride and I was feeling sicker so not really a pleasant experience. We made it and I hated life, and then had to go for a walking tour of the town and couldn't have cared less. The town looked a lot like Trinidad, Cuba except not as pretty or cute and sans awesome friendly people. Same cobblestone, slave/sugar/european thingo happening there too so realllly similar. I napped for an hour and then we all went and got seafood which was finally the first good meal I had in Brazil. I got crumbed prawns with cheese and a creamy rice. Deeeeelicious, I'm still craving the prawns and would totes have campaigned for more last night had I not been drunk.
So yesterday! I had finally slept properly, my gigantor feet had deswollen a little and I was feeling better. At 10:30 we had a boat cruise that would take us to beaches and also provid lunch...AND OPEN BAR capiinhas. AMAZING. I wasn't expecting it to be as nice as it was, sureee theres always room for improvement, there was no dancing and we shared the boat with olike 50 other people BUT it was heaps good. We also went with the other GaDVENTURE group but no ones really been mixing. We made 3 stops all up I think, potentially 4 it's a little blurry. It would stop near the beach and then you would jump out and swim to shore and if you were a pussy and lame you could get a little boat to shore. We had 30 mins at each stop and the beaches were pretty, nothing ridiculously amazing, Australia does afterall have spectacular beaches. Greenish waters, yellow sandy beaches, deserted apart from us =) Lol at one beach me and melissa fell asleep, I woke up with a mouthfull of sand and freaked out because we were the last ones left on the beach and I could see the last few people climining back up the ladder haha.
So many caipirinhas XD we were all tipsy by 11am, drunk by midday lol. Lunch was suprisingly good for food made on a boat, chicken schnitzel with rice and salad. By the time it was over it was around 5pm and we were all giggly and you could see the burns showing up on everyone. Even I got burnt a little XD THERE'S COLOUR ON MY BOOBS. I'm happy haha. We walked the 5mins back to the hotel and jumped straight into the spa in the hotel ccourtyard, lol the day previously I was thinking how there was no way I would go in there =P That's when things get blurrier because I remembered I had smirnoff Ice in my room and went to grab it. Next thing I know, Im dressed and ready for dinner. o.O Most of the group went to get Italian but me Matty and Sandra went for thai food, I have no idea how that happened really, I think Sandra wanted to try it and I'm always down for thai so there we go. It was really tasty! That helped sober me up despite having another drink there too haha and then we went for ice cream XD
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Sunday, December 1, 2013
10:00 AM
Buenos Aires
Sun 1 dec 10am - airport
HOLA AMIGOS
I'm sitting next to matty at the gate, the rest of our GAdventure group are scattered about, no ones bonded much yet which I'm happy with. I'm hella tired and can't be fucked interacting with peeps. I talked to them last night, two of the girls were really friendly and one was even kinda funny ^.^ We met everyone last night like 15mins after getting to the Hotel. BUT not the point. Gah my blogging has been terrible. So I have like 30mins b4 boarding and I can try blast some stuff out and on the 40min flight to Iguassu.
Sidenote: WHAT DOES THE FOX SAYYYY. Super pumped, I got a fox necklace at the airport here, it's so cute and shinny ^.^ In honour of my foxxxy friend Jacques <3 p="">
So I met up with Matty at 3am on Friday 15 Nov which was 17 days ago. Wow. It doesn't feel that long but we sure have covered a good stretch. I'm sure there's an app I can figure out the Km's with =P We started off in Santiago and bused it all the way down to Ushuaia and then flew from there to Buenos Aires yesterday. We did really well, mostly winging it. The first two towns we just went with the people who offered us a place to stay when we got off the bus lol. After a traumatic experience for Matty, he decided we would pre-reserve or at least have a list of go to hostels haha. IT WASN'T THAT BAD but he swears she locked us in the attic. Oh well.
So landing in Santiago was okay, I couldn't reach Matty for a few days so my backup plan was meet at the bus terminal because we both had our ticket reservation codes already. He found me though, the poor bubba had been at the airport aimlessly wondering for 24 hours o.o The airport hotel was fully booked and he wasn't keen to go into town 30-40min away and come back. In fear of getting rolled he did not sleep on the floor like I would have haha. I had to pick up a bag I left at my grand-uncles place but I didn't want to rock up to these sweet old people's place at 3am so we waited till 6am at the shitty airport coffe shop until then. It was a quick encounter, almost sad. They were reallllly beautiful with me, we chatted heaps when I stayed with them those two nights before leaving for Cuba and when I visited with mum those two times in September as well. I hardly know them but they opened their home up to me and were really hospitable. I'm pumped to send them photos. Sadly probably one of the last times if not last time I ever see them. They're old-ish. I got them the biggest and most fragile souvenir I've bought to date, mostly because they were the first I could see a day after purchasing it and I felt rude showing up emptyhanded at 6am. I got them 3 framed butterflies from Costa Rica. Their home is really artsy and cute/fancy so I figured that would suit the place and they're framed on glass so you can still see their pretty wallpaper. Hopefully they're not wierded out by butterflies haha.
ooohp, gate change =.= ...or not. huh.
After grabbing my bag we wearily made our way to the Terminal a little dazzled by the amount of vendours but it didn't take us long to figure out what we needed to do, we got some horrible churrascos and I re-charged my phone ^.^ ON WE WENT to Pucon, a comfortable 11 hour bus ride. I've gotten really good at just passing the time, I never get bored. I don't even really know what I do. Mix between editing pictures, blogs, music and napping. I don't need much else.
Pucon was a lovely start to the trip. We met a German guy at the terminal when we got off and this lady offered us a room for the three of us at her hostel pretty much across the road so we all agreed and went out for dinner with him. He was kinda dull but his life wasn't, he's a fireman and he takes two holidays a year since he was 18, one where he cyces around the country and the other where he hikes/camps/trecks. The next day German guy made us breakfast XD and then we missed our first tour because matty lost his shoes lol. So we rescheduled, walked around town, bought him some crocs and scoffed down lunch because we were dangerously close to missing that tour too. We did a horse ride through a Mapuche reserve to a lake and then back to a Ruca which is what they call their shack-home things. They gave us home made traditional foods which were almost icky and the lady couldn't have looked less interested in us and then back to town. The horse ride was lovely, matty ripped his pants though lol and his horse just wouldn't keep up. The ride was good maybe for the first 10mins and then the horse flies started attacking with fury, it was a pain, we had to swat them away lest our horses freaktheshitout and then they started bitting me too =.= Later that night we got a tour company to drive us to some hot springs which was breathtaking. They were man made so they had the water brought in by pipes but the place was spectacular and heaps cold and the water soooo hot. The tour leader gave us the shits, he told us he had a sports car like 6 times. DONT GIVE A FUCK BUDDY. The scenary there made my heart soar. That's where the artisenal chocolates started. They're realllly into them down south.
We lucked out with the accomodation, we didn't get rolled and it was comfortable, it wasn't your traditional hostel though, it was more like cabins/lodge. It was very wintery and wooden and we woke up to a sleeeeepy kitten at our feet. CUTES. But then we got back at midnight and the hostel lady told us off for leaving the window open and letting a stray cat in. LOL Matt had been patting it the whole time. I had a feeling though, it's eyes were pretty crusty haha and no kitty needs that much sleep. Poor thing must have never slept in a warm bed before. Hostels have been sooo cheap.
& Kitty goes MeOw.
