http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Niloc/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Niloc en-us Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:13:27 +0000 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:13:27 +0000 Hi I'm in Thailand Made it after the longest sunset of my life. We were chasing the sun over to Japan so it was setting for about 10 hours I was tired but got in and got a good sleep. Went over the mountains of Alaska and Russiaamazing I'll write more later when I get a chance My internet session is almost up. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Bangkok/blog-457876.html Here are some pics of the Colombian wax palm these things get huge it's like a Dr. Seuss book. I'm putting them back up because they seemed to disappear...enjoy http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Medellin/blog-419891.html Yes indeed it is the humans who traffic the hamsters. You see in Colombia hamsters are free to choose their own bowl and if you put your money on it you win See the hamster races But now I must expose the seedy underbelly of Ecuador and enlighten you to what happens to these adorable hamsters when they are exported south of the border. An important note my sister pointed out to me that th http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Ecuador/Centre/Banos/blog-394127.html Here are the rest of the Amazon pics I promised you Yes I love the jungle there is so much diversity...stories are told with the pics... http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Ecuador/East/Cuyabeno-Reserve/blog-385336.html Here are some of my pics from the Amazon More to come soon...and hopefully I'll get around to writing some stories. http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Ecuador/East/Cuyabeno-Reserve/blog-383729.html these are the last of the Galapagos pictures Enjoy. I'll try to write a blog about it next and put up the pics from the Amazon... http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Ecuador/Galapagos/blog-381720.html Looks like there are going to be four parts there are still more to come Enjoy... http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Ecuador/Galapagos/blog-381267.html here is the second batch of pics from Galapagos I think there will be one more to come then pictures from the Amazon. Hope you enjoy http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Ecuador/Galapagos/blog-380912.html these are just some of the pics from Galapagossome of the best. I took about 2000 pics there and am going through trying to pick the good ones for you to see. Enjoy Now I'm back in Medellin Colombia after my month in Ecuador. It was a great trip More pics to come... http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Ecuador/Galapagos/blog-380640.html So here I am in Medellin Colombia which once used to be the drug trafficking capital of the world. Well itrsquos settled down a considerable bit and last year was considered the safest city in Latin America. Funny how things change. Colombia used to be a violent country but now a lot of that has passed and just in the last few years it has been accessible to visitors. A lot of places th http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Medellin/blog-366773.html Due to the popularity of my picture of the hamster line up I have decided to put up more pics so you can better understand this one of Colombia's great mysteries. As my sister said bestDon't keep all those hamster pictures to yourself. Very well I'll share...So it starts out that you see a lot of people standing around in a circle in Bogota in the Center. Naturally you go to check it out http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Bogota/blog-364174.html here is a picture blog from Bogota. I'm in Medellin now and haven't taken any photos yet here. Later I'll maybe write something. Just got into MedellinPeace http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Medellin/blog-360508.html ha ha. Well been having just a good time in Colombia. Yeah some good has passed some bad too. Where to start So I guess I left off telling you how Colombian girls are the most beautiful in the world. Well Ill stick to it dont worry...Since then...geez. I guess I should tell you how I got robbed in the park.So I was sitting in the park with two of my amigas who coincidentally are beauti http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Bogota/blog-348607.html Irsquove been meaning to write a blog for a while and had lots of ideas of what to say and of course the time passed and Irsquove mostly forgotten everything. Oh well. I guess Irsquoll start from scratch.Just wanted to write a bit from Colombia to try to describe what it is like here.First some catching up.So I went to Valaparaiso Chile which was really cool. Got to see the beach a http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Bogota/blog-345384.html Well I had my first adventures in Chile I have to say it was quite amusing. Or I should say misadventures. But are there any other kindSometimes you go looking for trouble. Sometimes it just finds you.I was passing a fairly lonely time and as one of my friends told me you just have to embrace the loneliness so I did and it was going pretty well. I was enjoying myself walking around the ci http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Santiago-Region/Santiago/blog-338018.html OK I made it to Chile alive...had quite an adventure getting here.I already like Chile. I started being well disposed to it on the drive over beautiful andes and when we crossed to the chile side things started getting more green it was awesome. The other side is more dry I guess cause all the clouds drop their rain on the Andes before.So this ends my latin american epic I think. There is http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Santiago-Region/Santiago/blog-337181.html Here I am from Buenos Aires. I guess this is the first blog since I made it. I dont have long to write but i guess I could write a few things. Well its great to be back in south america I like it here. I guess all I can say is a lot of people ask you what your plan is like at the hostel and what not. Sometimes we walk a foggy road. The path of life is like that and it depends on the weat http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/Buenos-Aires/blog-331984.html ah to leave...I just walked around the driveway with my cats for the last time...we go on walks sometimes and we just went out at night.I figured since it's my last night here we had better go now and walking some thoughts came to me and I thought if I don't write them now I never shall.Me and the cats walked by the old black walnut tree the mist rising up from everything after the rain http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Maryland/Rockville/blog-329604.html Well seeing Flo was really cool. I got to see Isabella again who I hadn't seen for years. She now speaks english and spanish. It was neat to see their home and hang out with the family. We got to go to a birthday party and Coco Flo's husband took me golfing for my first time. Then we went out to his hometown had a drink and met a bunch of his old friends. Everyone was super friendly Flo ha http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/blog-210128.html God bless Americait is sweet to be home under that flag of stripes and stars.I never knew how good the states are until I left for so long.Now I can see the good.Of course there's bad too...well here I am back in the good ol u s of a and I have to say it feels good. I got my piano back I been playing a lot and I just been relaxing and it was just what I needed. So my trip is over. Now it's http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Maryland/blog-210125.html