Deborah Kantor
Hi there, this is my bio, all about me. WhereIsDeb
Me, me, me, me me!
What can I say that you don’t already know ?
I am restless first time traveller. I've been backpacking alone for 7 months
around South America. Specifically around Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia and Peru.
I'm travelling for photography and to write my experiences on different lifestyles and
cultures and to have a great adventure...
I hope you enjoy my travel blog thing and it makes you laugh and cry and squeal and pee
a little and I will do my best to achieve all those things in every blog as often as I can, in my
normal blunt and over-exaggerated fashion and exclamation marks on everything!!
Like this... I woke up and had a shower! it was good! there was water!
coming right out of the shower!!! Unbelievable!!
I will leave you with a quote by a little Indian man in a filthy loin-cloth who I have come to love
and one by this really cool chick, who is so great and hot and hilarious and brilliant
you may know of her
“Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it”.
-Mahatma Gandhi
and, lastly...
“Love ah, love... What is love?
L- is for life, because you cannot live-life without love...
O- Is for Oh, wow!
V- Is for how Very interesting love is when you have it and how it can leave you as a hollow empty shell of a person when you don´t...
E- is for Eventually you will die someday and will have no life or love, so you may as well shave your legs ”
-Deborah Kantor (the great)
Enough.
Deb
For photos of what I´ve been up to please visit...
http://au.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/debsi_photos/my_photos
ps- don´t forget to add comments!
:p
Travel Blog Posts
August 20th 2006
THE BEAUTIFUL CITY of CUSCO, PERU SPIRITUAL AND TRIPPY ENCOUNTERS IN CUSCO Cusco- Peru, my last and final stop in South America, will be more memorable than the trips past. Getting out of your comfort zone, discovering yourself with trippy drugs, getting completely shit-faced and seeing some cool ruins and meeting a lot of cool people and having some cool conversations. DESIGN OF CUSCO They should design all cities like Cusco. It is easily one of the most amazing cities in the world, with contrasts of ancient and new, well 80's new anyway. It is designed like a pit, with hills and mud brick houses scattered over-looking the center of the pit, is the busy Plaza De Armas. Cusco thrives off tourism; little kids sell postcards on Machu Pichu and llamas and shine shoes for 1 ... read more
August 12th 2006
Feeling like a Gringo in Peru MANCORA BEACH, PUIRA, NORTH PERU GOING TO MANCORA AND COINCIDENCES IN LIMA The day I decided to leave Lima was the day my credit card stopped working. I had to take out money from Western Union and this forced me to stay an extra day longer in Lima that I had planned. So instead of leaving Lima the day I was supposed to... I ended up spending the day organizing where to go next, instead of just turning up at the bus terminal and deciding from there. I was thinking I will go to Cusco and work my way up North to the jungles, but this would mean that I wouldn’t have time to check out Mancora which is a really cool beach 20 hours North of Lima that my ... read more
August 4th 2006
This blog is for my two friends, Sarah and Eli who have just been engaged. To love, laughter and happily ever after. Cheers! TRAGICALLY HIP IN PERU THE REED ISLANDS of PUNO Puno is located near Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the world, home to the floating reed islands, and from where legend claims the founders of the Inca Empire emerged. Lake Titicaca covers 3,305 square miles of the southern highlands of Peru, on the border between Peru and Bolivia. It is the largest lake in South America. Bolivia and Peru have had arguments about whom it belongs to and have said we will get the “Titi” and you will get the “Caca” and finally they have agreed to split it somewhere in the middle, we will each get “Ti-Ca”, “Ti-Ca”, to make “Titicaca”. ... read more
July 13th 2006
Hello all! Hope this blog finds you well. Just an update on where I am and what I have been up to in Bolivia for the last two and a half months. Since my last blog I have been to La Paz, Tiwanaku, Copacabana, Isle De Sol, Rurrenabaqua, Cochabamba and now I have only just left my last stop in Bolivia, which is Villa Tunari in El Castillo in the Chapare region of Bolivia, volunteering with Bolivian kids for this great organization Angels of Hope, before heading to Peru for the next six weeks. BOLIVIA… The best thing about Bolivia is that it is different wherever you go; some places are similar in many ways, especially the poverty stricken side. But the landscapes and climate can change dramatically depending on where you go. LA PAZ… I ... read more
Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia catch up
Published: June 17th 2006South America » Bolivia » Potosí Department » Potosi
June 16th 2006
Helloo all, wow! I am exactly a month late with delivering this blog, apologies all round, I will try to remember as much as I possibly can with what I’ve been up to until now... IGUAZU FALLS- ARGENTINA AND BRAZIL Iguazú Falls were truly amazing, probably the most awesome sight of natural wonderment I have ever witnessed... yes, I said wonderment! The falls were so gorgeous; I couldn’t tear my eyes from them. It reminded me why I was here and what it took to get here and how not so long ago, I was sitting on the balcony of my apartment in Sydney wondering if I would ever get to see the falls and what I would experience if and when I did. I was feeling incredibly lucky and overwhelmed standing so close to them. ... read more
May 5th 2006
Hola everybody! :) Just want to update you on what i've been doing the last few weeks.. First of all happy 21st birthday to my sister, Sarah! I hope you get completly wasted so that no one can recognize you, you're so funny when you get pissed, like at my farewell when you sang that song from Ghost, oh it gave me shivers... and by the way, you have so many fans! I am your biggest, of course... :) So, I eventually left Mendoza, had an incredible time there and met so many cool people. On approaching my last days there, Dave and I went on a day trip to Puenta Del Inca and Uspallata. Only four hours away from Mendoza, we decided the night before that we were going to catch a bus at 6am, ... read more
April 16th 2006
First and foremost, chag Semaech and Happy birthday Michelle! I hope you had a fantastic birthday and everyone had a great Pesach... ;) how is everyone?? I am currently staying in a cute little hostel called Wincas in Mendoza. On our first night we had a massive asado (which is a famous Argentinian bbq) and we went out to a club called Opium till late, which played a lot of INXS and 80's trash. After the club I was so wasted and couldn't go to sleep, I noticed someone watching the third Star Wars downstairs so I went to check it out, I didn't speak to the person sitting on the couch at first, because I was pretty damn wasted and was in no mood. He started asking me questions, the usual stuff, like where I ... read more
funny encounters in Chile
Published: April 5th 2006South America » Chile » Valparaíso Region » ValparaísoApril 5th 2006
Feeling much better now, after I was sick I stopped by a call centre and had a cry to my family, then fish rang me while I was in the supermarket trying to figure out what wouldn't make me more sick anmd had a cry to him as well. ah, the joys of travelling solo, no one to look after you or feed you, everything is by yourself and most of the time it makes you feel like shit until you meet someone awesome which is always the best part ;) After sleeping in and not leaving the hostel for a few days i decided to push myself out the door and head for Valperiso, a beautiful city 2 hours away from Santiago and a verty popular tourtist spot. As I left I remember thinking to ... read more
March 29th 2006
Hey Everyone, it´s wednesday im sitting in an internet cafe waiting for my laundry to be done. i am starving i´m going to eat something nasty after this. I haven´t writtien in a while because i´ve been down south of Chile with a group of 13 people or so, some nice so annoying. We went by bus to Pichillemu, Santa Cruz, Valdivia, Pucon, Puerto Varis, Puerto Montt and Salto ell Laja Waterfall. Sounds fascinating doesn´t it?! Well it was good but not great, I was expecting something else... as it so happenes we were on the bus A LOT, maybe 50 hours in total? Maybe more..? The towns that we did visit were very touristy and not really what I was looking for, i wanted the traditional, authentic side of chile, although we did drive passed ... read more
March 23rd 2006
The last few days, i have been taking it real easy, just going for coffee, lunches, and beers. btw, you can order a litre of beer in santiago for i think 1 or 2 aussie dollars? anyway this place is cheap, cheap! ciggs are like 3 bucks too. unbelivable place. i love chile, there{s not much to do in santiago but see museums, so thats what i did today- today I went into the city of Santiago with an Irish surfer, a french guy and a english girl, we started after a big breakfast from 11am to 8pm, thats 9 bloody hours! We travelled around the city all day by foot and saw pre columbian museums and atrtifacts and a really excentric house which was made by the guy based on the french film the postman ... read more
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