pepito - Joseph Sieben

"The idea is to carry everything on your back, forget your troubles, and let tomorrow take care of itself. You learn from the natives to live for the moment, not to hurry. You travel to breathtaking places - the kinds of places tourists dream of seeing - but you're not a tourist. You're a Mochilero, a drifter, and there's a big difference. You're in one place today, someplace else tomorrow. You may stay for a day or a month."
- Yossi Ghinsberg

In the end it's the experience that counts. To be at the end of your road and able to look back and think to yourself - yes, I did that.. Yes! I was there; and yes I will never be the same because of it.
That's all that really matters.

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By pepito
September 17th 2006

Grey Mountain Skies North America » Canada » Yukon » Watson Lake

Grey Mountain

You're searching, Joe, for things that don't exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings -- there are no such things. There are only middles. (Robert Frost) Watson Lake, Yukon Territory... Such a strange and cluttered atmosphere here. They say that this is a town of 800-900 people but with the Alaska Highway running through it as it's main street and three or four surrounding native villages - it can sometimes seem like more. I have found that drugs and alcohol are a major social bruise here. There is more cocaine passed around this town than I had discovered in many regions [View Full Entry]

By pepito
August 18th 2006

Ataraxia? North America » Canada » Yukon

Fireweed

I had it all... even the glass dishes with tiny bubbles and imperfections - proof that they were crafted by the honest, simple, hard-working, indigenous peoples of ... wherever... You buy furniture - You tell yourself that this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa - then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug... Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to [View Full Entry]

By pepito
August 9th 2006

North of 60 North America » Canada » Yukon

Cathedral Grove

There's a race of men that don't fit in, A race that can't stay still; So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will. They range the field and they rove the flood, And they climb the mountain's crest; Theirs is the curse of the gypsy blood, And they don't know how to rest. -- excerpt from The Men That Don't Fit In (Robert Service - Yukon Poet: 1874-1958) Vancouver Island, British Columbia : Rolling off the couch with having only two hours sleep, I wonder whhhhhy on Earth is the phone so close [View Full Entry]

By pepito
July 27th 2006

Heading: North by North-West North America » Canada » British Columbia » Vancouver Island

Cathedral Grove

6 days of travel, 5 countries, 4 times zones, 3 days without shower, 2 flights and 1 exhausted and conflicting moment of confusion and relief with the realization that I am once again on Canadian soil. It is the strangest sensation to awake with the first thought being, "Huh? Where am I?" - and for a split second truly not knowing... It has happened a time or two over the past few weeks. "What do you mean $109 for a hotel room for one night?! ... That's damn near a month and a half accomodation in Bolivia!" I nearly had a [View Full Entry]

Long Beach, Tofino - British Columbia, Canada

By pepito
July 7th 2006

Top Ten Things Learned in South America North America » United States » Texas » Houston

My Route Through South America

... 1) - Buy shares in the company that produces Imodium. 2) - If you divide the number of times you have smashed your head into a doorframe made for latinos by the number of times you have remembered to duck you can figure out the sum of how many brain cells have been lost in the process (sooo... roughly 1300/3) 3) - You can pretty much get a lesser reaction from an Argentine by telling him you slept with both his mother and sister the night before and then proceeded to urinate on his church than if you were to [View Full Entry]

By pepito
July 3rd 2006

!!!Farewell Salta!!! South America » Argentina » Salta

Policia

Farewell Salta!!! I hope this old train breaks down then I could take a walk around See what there is to see, time is just a melody With all the people in the street walking fast as their feet Can take them, I just roll through town And though my window’s got a view, well the frame I’m looking through Seems to have no concern for now Well this engine screams out loud, centipede going to crawl westbound So I don’t even make a sound cause it’s going to sting me when I leave this town And all the people in [View Full Entry]

By pepito
July 1st 2006

A tribute to my friend, the late Leon Coffey. South America

Leon Coffey

Dear Leon, It seems I am never on time.. He was the first person I met on those Islands and a friend etched into the fabric of those formative years - into nearly every memory I have of that inspirational year in my life. Upon first impression, Leon was the happiest, most positive person one could ever hope to meet.. fiercely intelligent and funny, it seemed like a light followed wherever he went. It was he who helped me feel welcome and at home in my first attempt at wandering to a foreign place. Like a brother, a person begins to [View Full Entry]

By pepito
June 26th 2006

Nostalgia South America

... - It stopped me dead in my tracks... What is that song??.. I know that song. I was wandering down a side street in the rare evening drizzle - and suddenly stopped here, outside this little obscure Argentine Pub.. The music was from where I come from, and yet there is something about.. Ahh yes, that´s it! Suddenly I am thrown back five years and more than 10 000 miles and I am standing outside a little Pub in the Queen Charlotte Islands. It would be my first friday night shift and I am standing in the evening drizzle. Standing [View Full Entry]

By pepito
June 23rd 2006

I really don´t have much of a name for this Entry South America » Argentina

Why am I always wearing the same shirt?

Okay, so I am pretty sure I have convinced Ignacio to go into business with me and let me open a bar in his hostel - What will it be called? Room 6, of course. This week a new cast of characters wandered onto the Salmanca set.. ..and then - as is always the way - wandered off this morning... Kris and Catherine! What an awesome pair of Canadians, it is shame they had to wander off so soon, back to Buenos Aires and ultimately back to Montreal next week - and yet, I have no doubt that when my wanderings [View Full Entry]

Catherine and Kris (Quebec), Me, Alejandro, Julio

"Wait wait wait... Take my photo while I swing around the pole!"

When you meet Catherine you are SURE she is pretty much one of the nicest, sweetest, girls you´ve ever met..

By pepito
June 18th 2006

Gauchos, fiestas and an Expedition Cut Short (A Blog for Pip) South America » Argentina » Salta

She is definately as crazy as she looks!

Every morning I awake and say to myself that tommorrow I will leave Salta and continue my journey Southward.. And each morning I awake to find that the day has something new and random to offer... I have visions of myself waking up one morning to find myself fifty years old and thinking, today I will continue my journey southward... Photos for Pip! I decided it was easier to post them here than to email you them - Have fun in Bolivia Pip!!! What a past couple of days.. Friday was the aniversary of the death of Martin Miguel Guemes - [View Full Entry]

The look on his face says, "Yeeaaah that´s right, I´m the Guacho!" - The look on her face says, "Huh?"

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