http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/pepito/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from pepito en-us Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:32:23 +0000 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:32:23 +0000 North 6335'30.0 150 miles South of the Arctic CircleWest 3554'08.9 150 miles East of the Alaskan BorderFour hundred people spend their lives in this sleepy little arctic village in the middle of nowhere and at the end of the road.Situated at the junction of two major river systems this remote village seems to epitomize the essence of true Yukon living.To be considered a Yukon resident o http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Yukon/blog-93008.html 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 FrostWatson Lake Yukon Territory... Such a strange and cluttered atmosphere here. They say that this is a town of 800900 people but with the Alaska Highway http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Yukon/Watson-Lake/blog-85481.html I had it all... even the glass dishes with tiny bubbles and imperfections proof that they were crafted by the honest simple hardworking 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 ha http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Yukon/blog-82011.html There's a race of men that don't fit inA race that can't stay stillSo they break the hearts of kith and kinAnd they roam the world at will.They range the field and they rove the floodAnd they climb the mountain's crestTheirs is the curse of the gypsy bloodAnd they don't know how to rest. excerpt from The Men That Don't Fit In Robert Service Yukon Poet 18741958Vancouver Island Briti http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Yukon/blog-78832.html 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 y http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver-Island/blog-76373.html ...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 130033 You can pretty much get a lesser reaction from an Argentine by telling him you sle http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/blog-71891.html Farewell SaltaI 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 windowrsquos got a view well the frame Irsquom looking through Seems to have no concern for now Well this engine screams out loud centipede going to http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Salta/blog-71013.html Dear Leon It seems I am never on time my friend.. He was the first person I met on those Islands and a friend etched into the fabric of those formative years. Etched into nearly every memory I have of the most inspirational year of 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 follo http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/blog-70851.html ... 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 thats itSuddenly I am thrown back five years and more than 10 000 miles and I am standing outside a http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/blog-69322.html 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 t http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/blog-68855.html 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 PipI decided it was easier to post them here than to e http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Salta/blog-67478.html ...The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it you will be lonely often and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. Friedrich Nietzsche As I begin to near the end of my time here with more than twothirds of my trip behind me thoughts of what I shall do upon my return begin t http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/blog-66594.html Five companions and three days crossing the Salar de Uyuni Bolivia The worlds largest Salt Desert...An amazing experience taking in some of the most spectacular landscape my eyes have yet beheld.After three days crossing the desert to the Chilean border and back an overnight train and an all day bus I am now at last in Argentina.A photographic journal http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/Potosi-Department/blog-63281.html Lago Cabra CorralAt least we can appreciate that we appreciateFor her it was an uncommited aside an afterthought that left as fast as it came yet for me it was a sudden light that had clicked on... Thats it Pip you are genius That is why we do this What brands a backpacker a backpackerIn wandering and discovering new aweinspiring places people cities and landscapes cultures we learn http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/blog-66028.html ArgentinaI once read an article about how Argentina has the worlds most beautiful people and at last I understand why... I think that the more cultures mix the stranger and more beautiful people begin to look.. Everyone looks so different here Dan reckons everyone looks european but in a distinctive latino way often mixed with a myriad of indigenous ancestry. Old and young people alike carr http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Salta/blog-64986.html I slowly opened my weary eyes to find the days first crimsongold splashed across the highest boughes of the hillside eucalyptus outside my window to the left. Wrapped in a blanket from an overnight passage South I rubbed my tired eyes briefly and watched the slow birth of the day ..Beautiful. A tap on my shoulder revealed the Soldier in full camo gear standing over me to the right requesti http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/Potosi-Department/Potosi/blog-61720.html You see Joseph I am very famous here she offhandedly remarked with a private grin to herself. And now you are very famous too I looked around to find that she was indeed right. Groups of people waved to her as she led me by the arm through the crowd while those very same people followed me with their eyes in a sort of strange fascination. It is very rare to see a gringo in these parts http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/blog-60107.html Yeeeeeeeeeeeee Haaaaaaaaawww...Thats about all I really have to say about that...Hey Noel race ya to the bottomSure Cause ya know racing to the bottom of the worlds most deadly road cant possibly be unsafe... But okayDeath Road that actually is the official name. Rapid downhill decent from 4700meters to 1200meters within a 65km distance. Nearly entirely dusty one lane dirt roa http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/La-Paz-Department/Yungas-Road/blog-59438.html One had to know the world... And do so not with the eyes of a tourist who looks only for landscapes comfort and ephemeral pleasures but with the eyes and the spirit of a son of the people who needs to knows the beauty of the continent the riches it contains the men and women that inhabit it as well as the internal and external enemies that exploit and impoversh it. Alberto GranadoThree w http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/blog-58430.html What extreme circumstances may allow for the expropriation of corporate property at a national level ... And when does it become a rightful place to forcefully take possession at the point of a gunThe first of May was an historic day for the people of Bolivia for better or for worse. The firey speech delivered by Bolivias first Indian Presidente Evo Morales from the balcony of what would be http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/La-Paz-Department/La-Paz/blog-56887.html