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Post-Liminaries

Tuesday, June 12, 2007 // 0 Comments

What we ended up actually doing… As you can see… we made one or two little deviations from the original plan. The most major of these was a trip to the US of A to [more...]

Airport Security Rant

Monday, June 11, 2007 // 0 Comments

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I’m sitting in transit in Auckland International Airport (can anyone think of another city that ends in “land”?). I just had my toothpaste confiscated. Now, [more...]

Signs of Life

Monday, June 11, 2007 // 0 Comments

A collection of some of the more interesting signs… some spanglish, some are inglespanol… some are just silly. Most of the jokes are lewd and tasteless, so if [more...]

Chile

Friday, June 1, 2007 // 0 Comments

Puerto Montt (1/6/07 – 3/6/07) The closest significant Chilean city to Bariloche was Puerto Montt which I decided would be my launching point to either Coyhaique or [more...]

Argentina

Wednesday, May 16, 2007 // 3 Comments

Buenos Aires (16/5/07 – 19/5/07) I arrived in Buenos Aires by boat from Montevideo… I immediately took the subway to the centre of town and started knocking on [more...]

Uruguay

Monday, May 14, 2007 // 0 Comments

Montevideo (14/5/07 – 15/5/07) After Rio, all my “planned” destinations were in much colder locations… so I sent some stuff home. Mostly summer stuff, [more...]

Apples!

Friday, May 4, 2007 // 0 Comments

Asuncion Do you like apples? Well… I’m going to one, a big one! How do you like them apples? Fine print: After a long and nail-biting wait, I have been admitted [more...]

Brazil

Friday, May 4, 2007 // 0 Comments

Foz do Iguaçu (4/5/07 – 5/5/07) The Iguazu falls are South America’s mightiest. Mightiest? You might say… I did. In a land which already boasts such [more...]

A Thought

Wednesday, May 2, 2007 // 0 Comments

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I’m seriously thinking about getting myself a digital SLR camera. Why? After seeing all the sights I’ve seen and looking over all the photos I’ve taken of [more...]

Paraguay

Tuesday, May 1, 2007 // 0 Comments

Asuncion (1/5/07 – 3/5/07) Paraguay was never intended as a long stopover. In fact, there were only two things on my list for Paraguay – the Chaco, the sparsely [more...]

Bolivia

Friday, April 20, 2007 // 0 Comments

Copacabana (20/4/07 – 22/4/07) Bolivia is a place I have only previously known through reading about its dire hyperinflation in the chapter “Bolivia’s high [more...]

Ecuador

Monday, April 2, 2007 // 0 Comments

Quito (2/4/07 – 5/4/07) Quito is one of the few places in the world where the pilot actually has to *decompress* the cabin prior to landing. Most of the time, the plane [more...]

United States of America

Tuesday, March 13, 2007 // 0 Comments

Los Angeles (13/3/07 – 15/3/07) This was a bit of a let down. Santa Monica beach at about 10am. I think the weather might have had something to do with it. The bus [more...]

Cuba

Sunday, February 25, 2007 // 2 Comments

Havana (25/2/07 – 1/3/07) Cuba is an interesting place. The first thing that one notices is the apartheid. This is not like the apartheid that poisoned South Africa [more...]
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