Dylan22 - Dylan Turner

I am a 21 year old (about to be 22 May 20th...) student at the University of Utah in SLC, UT. My friend and I are about to go on a three month journey through South America. This is our third time traveling together, we backpacked through Europe four years ago and Asia two years ago and had the time of our lives. The picture is us trying to get some sleep on our flight over the Pacific (to Asia). I 'm sure it will be the same to SA. Hope all of you enjoy the blog this time around. Randy has one as well I will put up the link soon. Otherwise just search for Randy Platt. Oh and we are flying into Argentina and flying home from San Palo Brazil.

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By Dylan22
June 18th 2009

Moutain Climb South America » Bolivia » La Paz Department » La Paz

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 [View Full Entry]

By Dylan22
June 12th 2009

Sorry no pictures South America » Bolivia » Chuquisaca Department » Sucre

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. [View Full Entry]

By Dylan22
June 1st 2009

Northward! South America » Chile » Valparaíso Region » Viña del Mar

Where are all the Beaches at?
Here in the summer (our winter) in ViÃ±a del Mar. But not now....

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 [View Full Entry]

By Dylan22
May 28th 2009

New country new experiences South America » Chile » Los Lagos » Puerto Varas

Lake District
No lake but right by it

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 [View Full Entry]

By Dylan22
May 24th 2009

Mendoza South America » Argentina » Mendoza » Mendoza

Fall in Mendoza
Beautiful Plaza 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 [View Full Entry]

By Dylan22
May 20th 2009

Almost forgot my birthday South America » Argentina » Santa Fe » Rosario

Happy Birthday to Me!
I had would not have know that it was the twentieth if I hadn´t walked by this

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 [View Full Entry]

By Dylan22
May 18th 2009

Yes we are alive :) South America » Argentina » Misiones » Puerto Iguazú

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 [View Full Entry]

By Dylan22
May 11th 2009

More to come North America » United States » Utah » Salt Lake City

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 [View Full Entry]

By Dylan22
July 17th 2007

Home Sweet Home Asia » India » National Capital Territory » New Delhi

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. [View Full Entry]

By Dylan22
July 10th 2007

"Run! Run to the boarder and don't look back!" Asia » Nepal » Kathmandu

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 [View Full Entry]

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