http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Rancherita/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Rancherita en-us Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:40:16 +0000 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:40:16 +0000 The days the months have surely flown by...as I grip the seat of my pantalones memories flash and Im left with a smile on my face. Not all is good not all is bad..just simply living...with everday routines to having days of excitement to boring days I still brush my teeth everyday like back home I still eat my cookies but maybe I do it all in a diff setting each time. My days are not a http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/blog-450778.html Um hi mom and dad dont freak out but I need to go by boat from Colombia to Panama P need to get to costa rica... Hmm...so does anyone know how to go by boat from Colombia to Panama the Cheap way ie no sail boats please Any info would help. Pura Vida... http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Ecuador/North/Quito/blog-447024.html So I havent been updating this thing and I had forgotten about my visit to the Pantanal Brazil...so here goes a blurb on that. I had been on the road by myself for a while..meaning I had left behin Kat back in El Calafate Argentina...I went back to South Chile...got sick...got better...hung out with Piero and his family for a while....flew back up to Santiago CHile...visited Adrians Parents. http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Ecuador/North/Mindo/blog-444724.html I just read several posts on my sisters facebook and damn she is freaking hilarious...my seester I wish I were freaking funny like you...you crack me up...I miss you. Here are more pictures from my galapagos visita.... http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/blog-444096.html Well the pants that I thought would hold up for a year of everyday usage finally succumbed to falling apart. About two days ago I noticed my first whole...just near my crotch..great. Ill try to mend them lets see if a lil stitching can hold them up for a lil while more. Im here in Mindo Ecuador taking it easy while the birders head out looking for their lil precious creatures. The l http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Ecuador/North/Mindo/blog-444084.html ok so this didnt work last time...ill try once again..im telling you though internet connection sucks around these parts... So I thionk it worked this time. Well as an update the runms have finally cleared...yay me. I have been trying to take it easy but traveling with two avid birders is not an easy thing..I really dont like waking up early and for birding one needs to wake up at insame hou http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Ecuador/North/Mindo/blog-443810.html Lets see if this internet connection is fast to upload some of my pictures. Keeping fingers crossed.... http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/blog-443270.html Eh my stomach is no bueno. But I guess this is not the way to start a blog. So lets see...I havent written in ages. Soo sooo sorry mom and dad. Where was I the last time I wrote something I think I was in Bolivia writing about Brazil. Now im in Ecuador writting about Ecuador. The first two weeks I spent looking at the marvels of the galapagos islands and let me tell you they are freakin http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Ecuador/East/Tena/blog-442771.html Its amazing to see so many beautiful colors so many beautiful textiles and so many beautiful faces...here in the market of Tarabuco Sucre Bolivia you had it all. From Sucre you take a taxi and it takes you 62 km to a market not only for the tourists but for the locals as well. But this taxi driver was a bat out of hell. Taking curves at more than 100km per hour I thought I was going to b http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/blog-429804.html Was lovely but it really made Niagra look like a tear drop. We spent an entire day at the Argentinian side of the falls because it was the adventurous side. Our morning Rachel from the states kat and I started off by hiking the Macaco trail. Thanks to me everyone had to go here first because i was goneho about seeing birds. It turned out great. The others walked in front of me http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/blog-429787.html We arrived in Brazil Bonito by night..took a mini van from the small bus station and we did not know what was awaiting us at the HI HOSTAl....PARADISE...but we didnt know it because we arrived by night. In the day time I saw my Lil heaven. Hundreds of parrots flying in the sky noisly going about there way...blue birds frolicking in the trees of our back yard yellow birds all kinds of birds c http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/blog-429584.html Se murio por flojo dijo la Dona Augustina de 90 anos Her face told hundreds of stories all at once. Eventhough she had a body of an old woman this lil lady moved at the speed of light Swift movements helped her keep up with her sheep as she coaxed them into their corral. Spindling her sheeps wool she soon forgot we were there. I broke her trance as asked my next question. La Dona habia vi http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/blog-429482.html pictures from le hostal. I moved 3 times before i found a hostal I liked in buenos aires. Several weeks later here is the outcome of the days of my life at hostal Uno. http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/blog-421296.html Here are some pictures. http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/blog-421293.html Robbery in Buenos aires is not unheard of. Its almost suprising if it hasnt happened to you. Yesterday as we sat outside at a cafe in the city full daylight sea of people going about there day around you I had my very first ENCOUNTER and not of the third kind. I felt a lil tug not the vibrations you feel because a bus is passing by and not the stomping feet of hundreds of passerb http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/blog-420902.html My emotions are going out of whack. Worlds of extremes...meeting people crazier than me dealing with people crazier than me...is not so easy. So what have I learned on this thus far 6 month journey I really dunno. Im still the same nut who left houston back a few months ago. Im still that sensitive Piscean. I just know that Im not day dreaming and that Im existing in this fast world of http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/blog-420488.html Pensamiento Pensamiento He says. In search of truth amongst all the blurriness. To unscath false realities he falls over and over until he sees glimpses of himself in his truest nature. http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/blog-419816.html In a day of colonia this is what I saw http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/blog-419586.html Went back to the consulate to pick up my much awaited visa. I was waiting eagerly for a fancy lil passport look alike visa...with my picture in it. Come on we pay buckoos for it shouldnt we get something fancy So what did I find. Nothing fancy. Just two filled pages of MY passport...one page with a stick on official stamped white paper and across it on the opposite sheet of my paper a http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/blog-419579.html It surely has been a whirlwind of a trip thus far. Let the adventure continue Well tomorrow Ill go pick up my Brazilian tourist visa and I cant wait to go into new territory. The brazilian visa took three takes. The first time I arrived at the consulate when it was closed. The second attempt I failed to have inout busplane tickets to brazil. I went back to the hostal worried of no http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/blog-419192.html