¨Hola¨ all Well here it is, the first bulletin from the ground in south america.. gawd it´s been like 10 days since I left.. I have been flying recently and so has time (from my perspective at any rate) and I meant to make an entry much earlier but because this is me this is going to be freaking long as and I just didn´t have time before as things have been so busy/hectic. The flight to Brisbane was quiet and unremarkable. The weather was fine and the spooky spectre of turbulence ( I describe it thus because I´ve watched too [View Full Entry]

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Ecuador Hi there, My name is Jay and have been travelling around the world for 11months or so. This next instalment is about Ecuador and hopefully this blog will be a little different than some of my others i will let you be the judge. So if we back track a bit and discuss the arrival into Quito the capital of Ecuador we were supposed to have a flight which i thought was at 8.40pm but turned out to be 8.40am and we missed our flight oh my god panic stations. These flights were all pre-booked through an All American pass [View Full Entry]

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So I set my alarm for 4:01am in order to get up today and be at the bus stop by 4:30. I woke at some point in the night very, very, VERY confused...I didn´t know where I was, or even who I was...all I did know is that I was in my birthday suit, on a bed, under some sheets. I started panicking and felt around on the bed to give me a clue as to who/where I was when I felt a plastic object...immediately it hit me...I was me, and I was in Montañita. The plastic object was my travel [View Full Entry]

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It´s Sunday...so there was no construction going on, so I was finally able to sleep in! I got up around 11 then headed into town for breakfast...the usual. After breakfast I headed back to the cabañas for a nap before watching the surf competition continue around 2pm. Sandy, Elyse, and I headed to the beach around 2 to hang out and watch the competition...however it actually wasn´t starting until 3, so Elyse and I headed to La Punta to go out onto the point. Big mistake to go without shoes since it is all coral and not too pleasant on the [View Full Entry]

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Nothing new this morning...same construction and sleep scenario. I headed into town to to check up on the civil strife in the states and low and behold as soon as I sit down, the power goes out all through town...so I guess it´s time for breakfast. I head down the row and find Morritz eating at Tiki Limbo, so I join him. I could only get eggs and toast since there was no pump for the water for tea and no blender for juice...yay. I waited around forever for the check and it never came, so I just dropped 2 bucks [View Full Entry]

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So I slept in today till about 11 then headed into town for breakfast. While waiting for my food to arrive, I saw Marissa passing on her way to the internet cafe. She sat down to join me. Apparently last night Raul got tanked again and made it back to the room around 5 am again...this time he apparently walked in circles for an hour in the room until he finally crawled into bed...half this time Sandra was in her bed scared of what he might do but didn´t say anything. Marissa told me Sandra is thinking about moving rooms because [View Full Entry]

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I am sick and tired of the overcast drizzly days in Montañita. I hear great things about Mancora, Peru and may be heading down there sometime early next week if my cashola comes in from unemployment. From what travelers are saying, it´s hot and sunny, and BEAUTIFUL...something I was expecting Montañita to be while I was here...but unfortunately it is not a great place to get a tan right now...great for surfing, but not great for looking like I was in South America for a month! I´m getting used to the construction going on and am doing a good job learning [View Full Entry]

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Since everything was closed the past 4 days, I first woke up to the large danish crowd making some noise around 8 in the kitchen/dining area which lasted about twenty minutes...then woke up again around 1030am from loud construction projects going on in and around the hostel. I hung out in my hammock outside for about 10 minutes to wake up. I saw David and asked him what cabaña I was moving to today. Since I was originally going to move after a week, they already rented the cabaña I was staying in out. He told me I could move upstairs [View Full Entry]

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Wow. I really needed a good night´s sleep. I slept until about 1130am then headed out to breakfast. My neighbor was up so I invited him to join me. Rob is from England and is in Montañita for a month studying spanish and working on his surfing skills...the same original idea I had when I booked my trip! (I just need to get back on board the bandwagon). Breakfast consisted of a couple eggs, juice, croissants, and some Tea...the usual. After breakfast I hopped on the internet and played around in Mafia wars on facebook. Braeden found me so I joined [View Full Entry]

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Hola noch mal... fuer alle, die sich ueber den letzten Blog amuesiert haben... hier kommt mal was anderes, wirklich schlechte Nachrichten: ALLES WEG!!!!! Sind vogestern abend AUSGERAUBT worden (dh. der Carina die Tasche runtergerissen)... und wir waren nicht total unvorsichtig, aber wir waren nur 30 sek von der Touristenstrasse entfernt und es ging so schnell und der Henkel der Tasche ist gerissen und weg war er! Keine Chance! Naja, und so fehlen uns jetzt BEIDE Cameras (eh super, das war das erste mal, dass wir ueberhaupt beide mithatten und noch dazu in einer Tasche - und mit ALLEN foto [View Full Entry]

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