Blogs from Paraguay, South America - page 12

Hola Amigos! Finally! It’s been go, go, go, but at last I have a chance to update! First, let me take a moment to give a shout out to my sweat-sister, and you know who you are, Jessica Chait! This may be very hard for you all to believe (especially the salseros) but I have NEVER, EVER been as sweaty as I have been these first few days in Paraguay. I mean, 90 degrees, 200% humidity, crowded in to a bus that’s sitting completely still at a stoplight, literally dripping with sweat. O.M.G!!! Ok! Now that you’ve got that fabulous visual: Landed in Asunción, Paraguay (the capital) and spent several days there. Asunción is beautiful and friendly and so contrasty. There are shanty towns with homes made out of metal along the river, and then even ... read more

Hola! So this is the first of what I hope to be several blogs about my girlfriend and I’s three month trip through South America. We are already about 2 weeks into the trip and having a great time. We do not have a definite plan but more of a vague idea about where we want to go, so we just went ahead and just bought one-way tickets to South America. The first leg of our trip was to head from Denver to Miami for a night. We were flying on a United 757 and a few hours after we left United grounded all of their 757’s for some sort of repair. Our next flight was the following day from Miami to Asuncion, Paraguay via Sao Paulo, Brazil. As we were about to land in Sao ... read more

Not much going on in the news this week except they are on the look out for killer-traffic-lights after realising the traffic lights have been malfunctioning and caused one death last week. I've recovered from last week's illness, feeling at the top of my game again! Everybody really is on facebook...we just got my sister-in-law to sign up - she went to school under a tree (remember I exagerrate) and now she is on facebook! Valentine's Day is a lot cheaper here...dinner for two, free bar, live music at the best hotel in the country for 80 quid -deals! Burger King's Oreo KinMix icecream...I've learnt of it's beautiful, tasty existence. Cometh the hour cometh the Mosquito...normally just when the sun is going down and I'm trying to relax after work, or just as I lie down ... read more

Currently in my work clothes...my boxers with the fan on full blast and windows letting in some hot northerly winds. Bus diversion meant I had to walk much further than is advisable in this weather, but it could be worse, it could be winter ;) - this is what I've learnt this week. The police should really check their internal memos...like the Inspector who got pulled over for being 4 times over the limit at a road block set up by his own department.DOH! Don't ask for your neice's icecream...she will only hover the spoon over your shorts as it melts and drips onto them. Poor shorts they've only just recovered from having Carmen's hair dye splashed into them. I don't like summer...oh no...I LOVE IT! Keep being hot baby! Commuting is cr*p...I've had meetings the ... read more

Alone in nondescript plaza in Cuidad del Este, delivered across, rather than to, the border by a local bus which had no time for formalities, Miles was an illegal immigrant in Paraguay having been deported from Brazil. It was essential that he obtained a Brazilian exit visa. He would return to Brazil (illegally) and attempt to leave again. A bronchitis attack induced by a thirty degree drop in temperature between the Copacabana and this nondescript swamp left him coughing, shivering and slightly delirious as he trudged back from whence the bus had come. Presently he came to a long bridge over the Rio Paraná. The river was invisible below beneath billowing mist boiling into the freezing early morning air. There was little motorized transport across the bridge. On one side of the road ‘smugglers’ unhurriedly pushed ... read more