Patrick Murphy

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Patrick Murphy

I am embarking on the most amazing adventure of my life. My goal is to be a more self sufficient and independent individual and also to see the world through a different lens.



South America » Argentina » Buenos Aires » Buenos Aires June 21st 2010

Five months of travel, adventure, and conversation. I am now starting preparing myself for what life will bring when I go home to Colorado. There have been an innumerable amount of beautiful people met and lessons learned. I am standing, once again, on the edge of plunging in to another enormous change in my life. Staring into the future everything appears to be up in the air, floating out in space and I am staring off into unseen ground. How will all of these lessons be translated into a completely different context for my life? How will my style of life at home be blended into my new style of life in Buenos Aires? It all remains murky, opaque, an image lacking clarity like staring through a dirty window. The mystery is scintillating, I relish in ... read more


Down into the underbelly of the city. Hand sliding down the rail, feeling the chipped paint rise and meet my skin. My feet creating a drum pattern as a dance down the steps, two light and one hard. The sickly sweet mix of perfume and body oder pervades as I cross the doorway threshold into the terminal. The pressure change brings a surge of air a cool refreshment before decending into the sweltering heat of a subway car. Long line to buy a ticket. Should have bought one earlier, Proof of my lack of foresight, why wait it line two times when you can buy two trips at once. Ahhh what does it matter anyway, thirty seconds lost. One more flight of stairs to the platform. Moisture on the stairs makes my shoes squeak, shoot I ... read more


Dear loyal friends, family, and followers, Had a pretty mellow week here in Buenos Aires. Spent a lot of time hanging around the apartment doing a bunch of reading. Started on a solid work out plan this week, 6 days straight of running and working out in the park. Feeling really good about it too! Going to keep going as long as I can to use my father's words "Keep the streak alive," although I am not sure I am going to be able to make it to 100 plus days. My new roommate moved in on Wednesday and he seems like a pretty agreeable guy, his name is Henry and he is from Texas and goes to school at Pepperdine. Haven't really seen that much of him and it may remain that way, he is ... read more
IHS for Regis
This tree ate a cement column.
Julio our Jesuit Ruin Guide

South America » Argentina » Buenos Aires » Buenos Aires April 27th 2010

Hello Folks, Well here I am, two days after my parents left me to head back to the U.S. The time the spent here seemed to just fly by. I was so grateful to see their smiling faces again, give both of team a big hug. They really spoiled me while they were down here, as if I wasn't spoiled enough already(with the opportunity to come down here), taking me out to dinner every night, buying me things, so on and so forth. We spent the time down here in a leisurely way. Spending the morning sleeping, bumming around the house, and taking turns in the 1 shower that we had in the apartment in Las Canitas. I truly can't express to you how splendid it was to sleep in a large bed again, I am ... read more

South America » Argentina » Córdoba April 11th 2010

Greetings this is a blog that I wrote partially while I was in the hills of Cordoba and later back at home in Buenos Aires. Off we go. Green sultry hills curve in and out of each other like a sultry dance. The delicate pale green ridges of them are like the shape of a woman from the top of her hip rising and then falling smoothly into her thigh. They are born from the vast live giving force of mother earth. Red rocks just up to the east, sedimentary stone with small round stones forever impregnated in the vast red brown rocks. The small stones which were once separate are now are forever part of something bigger, only the destructive force of a hammer and chisel or dynamite can separate them from the greater whole. ... read more
Our room from the outside
Such beautiful flowers at the estancia
Past home of the natives

South America » Argentina » Buenos Aires » Buenos Aires March 31st 2010

Hello friends and family, I just woke up on a Wednesday in Buenos Aires and had a slight moment of realization. I have talked much about personal adventures, weaving tales of imagery and excitement(hopefully). But through all of that I have forgotten to provide and substantial culture observations, which after all is one of the reasons that I came down here to take a bath in all the culture. I will take this chance to briefly describe the culture here if any of you are interested in what I have found. 1. Buenos Aires is more European than South American. I had heard this statement before I came down here but after living here for two months I really see the truth in the it. Its not only the architecture and the physical form of the ... read more

South America » Argentina » Buenos Aires » Buenos Aires March 21st 2010

Hello All, It has been a while I needed some time to recover from my last extensive blog. I have started classes here in Buenos Aires. I am taking 5 classes, all of which are in Spanish. It presents quite the challenge for me because I have to be paying 100% attention the whole class period and even if I break eye contact for a brief moment I struggle to find my way back. I remain confident and positive about the classes I truly do think I will be successful. I only have classes two days a week which gives me a lot of time to adventure around the city and really take advantage of my time here. I have two trips(possibly three) coming up in the next three weeks. The possible trip is to Uruguay ... read more

South America » Argentina » Mendoza » Mendoza March 4th 2010

Mendoza or Bust Hello all my friends and family back in the states. First of all I wanted to let you all know that I am safe and didn’t even feel the earthquake. It is pretty wild that it happened so close to me, I was very close the boarder of Chile and Argentina in Mendoza. I am getting a little bit ahead of my self. Let me first recap the end of my intensive Spanish month. We finished classes on last Thursday with a big final exam, I was slightly nervous about the test but I felt that I knew most of the material so I went into the test with ice water in my veins. Which is classic Patrick Murphy strategy that has been tested and proven effective in my school career. After the ... read more
Lost in Mendoza
Adam looking tough
Hostel Alamo

South America February 21st 2010

Hola Hola, Three weeks now. I am filled with a clash of emotions, I feel that I have been here for so long. Because I have had so many new experiences but then I am realized I am only just scratched the surface on my time here. Time is moving both slowly and quickly at the same time if that makes any sense at all. I have really have accomplished a lot here, my Spanish has significantly improved. I am now holding my own in the conversations at the dinner table. There is so much cultural exchange that happens during this meetings. Even if it is just learning a couple of new words or phrases or talking about football(soccer in the states) with Hugo. I get so much from these experiences. I have realized that in ... read more
Train tracks
Getting off the train in Tigre
Tour Boats.

South America » Argentina » Buenos Aires » Buenos Aires February 11th 2010

Hello All, Approaching my second week in a foreign land. Everything is extraordinarily well. Lets see where to start... When I last wrote I was planning on going with my program to a place in the northern part of Buenos Aires called Tigre. All day on Friday it poured rain, rain like I have never seen before. My parents here were calling it a curtain of rain. The rain was coming straight down and it was like a lace curtain across the city. Friday night I went to an area called Las Canitas which is about ten blocks away from the house. Foolishly I decided to walk to meet up with my friend from the program named Brandon. In two blocks it was like I had just jumped into the pool with all my clothes on. ... read more
El el obelisco.
El obelisco
Looking down a street.




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