Dylan22
Dylan Turner Joined: May 16th 2007
Logged in: July 4th 2009
Logged in: July 4th 2009
Travel Blog Posts
I havn´t really posted much this trip becuase it has been hard to find a computer that will upload pictures in a resonable amount of time. So I am just writing to remember everything I have done really, then put the pictures up when I can. So today we have done pretty much nothing. Not really by choice, but by force. It all started with the great analogy "...It´s like jumping off a high dive, you can´t just sit at the top thinking about jumping, you have to just jump." So we jumped. We woke up to catch a I´ve-seen-worse-bus to the base camp of Huyani Potosí, a 6,088 meter moutain (almost 20,000 feet) we stop and had a little to eat and then made a 2-3 hour hike to High Camp at 5,130 meters or ... read more
It has been nine days of just non-stop traveling for Randy and myself. Every day we were either waking up on a bus, or setting an alarm after only a couple hours of sleep. And the best part is that I am not complaining! I have enjoy it very much. It all started back in Vicuña, the lovely town set in the Pisco Valley, surrounded by grape vines and want-to-be moutains. We spent our time there seeing the Pisco distillery and then the observatory where we saw Saturn, and even could see its rings! and saw other famous stars and such. Very educational, if not a little depressing. As our well english speaking guide told us "...there are a million stars in that nebula, a billion stars in that galaxy, and billion more in that... do ... read more
Where are all the Beaches at?
We have been heading northward from our days in the Lake District, I already miss it, and we have made an overnight stop in Santiago and then in Valparaíso. A city build on the sea, and on hills. Our hostel was on the hill above the main sea-port, and the hills are quite steep (they have mainy venicular lifts to get people up and down), all though I think they are just for novelty and tourism now, they were used frequently back when they were built cerca early 1900´s. It is a very memorable city. It seems to a local pride thing to paint ones´house either very bright colors or conspire with the neibores and pic colors that would go well with each other. Seeing the city from above or below is quite enthrawling. Watching the ... read more
Lake District
I think a great way to sum up where we are is that I can not compare it to anything I have ever seen before. It's not really that different its just a conglomeration of other things, like what I would imagine big Southern Plantations looking like if they were located in Northern Oregon near the coast that produced immensely dense Sub-Tropic rain forest or something. I mean really it is crazy stuff. We are on a bus from Orsono to Puerto Varas and I can't even explain the terrain. Its like swamp land mixed with forest, next to rolling hills of perfect green grass (so perfect it looks like it isn't even grass at all but some weird sort of moss). It is so weird yet so beautiful. We were told by everyone that getting ... read more
Fall in Mendoza
Well we almost got robbed today. Haha but seriously. We are sitting in the main Plaza here in Mendoza talking to a girl from Norway that we, but more randy, had met the night before and just happend to run into her again. They were sitting on one bench and I was sitting on one directly across about twenty feet away (we were throwing a ball back and forth). A man aproached Randy and the Norweigen handing our flyers, and at the same time a man came to me and asked for directions (he had a Chile hat on so I would know he was from out of town I guess haha). There was a third man behind Randy´s bench just standing. The man by Randy then proceeded to walk away and "accidentally" dropped his keys ... read more
Happy Birthday to Me!
Haha seriously. I have a funny picture and it is the only reason I remembered my birthday was today. I´m sure I would have figured it out once I got to the computer but I guess otherwise... my mind must be in other places. We are here in Rosario a popular tourist destination (well not now but usually) its a beautiful city with nice pedestrain walkways and bolevards. We just came from Sante Fe´and as I said wasn´t even in our 1300 page book. But it actually turned out to be very nice. A small, city where it seemed the "rich man, and poor man, live right next to eachother...". After mentioning to the very nice plump man behind our hotel counter that I loved the houses here, but it seemed that the nice ones were ... read more
Wow
Ok. So ya. Sorry about the wait on the post just been a busy couple of days. Right now I am a couple miles away from the most amazing water fall(s) I could ever imagine. We are here in the town of Puerto Iguazu- a small dirty town that now that it is in the off season we can tell just gets ran-sacked by tourist in their summer and then they leave and the people are just trying to live normal lives until next summer- we are just 25 minutes away from the nation park and the falls. The park wasnt that bad we saw some neat wild-life and some beautiful landscape and vegatation. But the Falls! Dios Mio!!!!!! (thats what everyone says) they were so amazing. The shear force of all that water is unlike ... read more
Well here we are again, about to take off from life and dive into a world unknown to us. This time the roles are a little reversed. Last time we traveled Randy had the serious girlfriend and every reason not to take off for the summer. Now I have a serious girlfriend and Randy is single. So it should be pretty interesting to see how that unfolds. We will be headed for South America hoping to do a pretty large loop around the continent. We have done almost no planning for this trip and that is starting to worry me a little. All we know as of right now is in two days we will land in Argentina, traveling through their winter months, and hopefully catching our flight home in San Palo Brazil by August 10th. ... read more
It's sad, but I think I have become tired of traveling. It's not that I don't enjoy seeing all of these amazing things, I love that! It's the actual traveling part that gets me. I am tired of dealing with people just trying to take my money, just trying to get me to take their taxi or come to their hotel. I hate it. It gets more frustrating everyday. But I think we have come to a solution. We are here in the capital of India: Delhi. It is not what I have expected, but we haven't seen much yet. The airport was clean, the pre-paid taxi's were very nice, the roads weren't too overcrowded, and I think we only saw about three shanty towns on the drive in... I really had no idea what ... read more
And that's what we did. We ran, and didn't look back. We were nine kilometers away with an expired Chinese Visa. What else could we do? We had some great experiences in the 41 days we spent in China. Our first Visa was cut short when we entered Hong Kong, and our second Visa ran out before we could get to the boarder of Nepal. It's too bad that a country that insists on bureaucratic permits, guides, and detailed planning, doesn't realize when two foreigners with expired Visas' book a five day tour through Tibet. The supposedly hardest region to travel through in China! I know it's our fault for not knowing when our Visas ran out; but we never planned on staying that long in China to begin with, so we never really took ... read more
