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Cambodian River in Colombia
Full of mini alligators and Viet Cong. Larry Whitehead would've had a flashback for sure. The guy who does Jean Luc’s spanish voice dub is a poor replacement for the sonorous manliness of Patrick Stewart. I think facebook status updates are not the most appropriate place to express personal anguish over someone dying. Maybe I’m just old and out of touch. One thing I love about Spanish is than instead of paying attention you lend (prestar) your attention to someone. I don’t tend to lend mine too often or for too long. Like that stingy ass kid Neil with all the awesome toys from Loma Vista. Oh, Neil already has a friend over and I can’t come in? I didn’t want to play with your fag Castle Greyskull anyways you toy hoarding son of a bitch. How Al and I stayed friends while fighting over Neil’s affections I’ll never know. I can’t understand someone being anti-Walmart unless they are anti-capitialism. Sometimes dropping atomic elbows on your mattress to intimidate Josh gets you a self-inflicted punch to the ear and a possible case of cauliflower ear. You know you might be glompers when you get into a fifteen minute discussion on US politics with the orange juice guy on the street corner. Here’s the problem with chips
The weekend house
Fit a lot of gringos and came outfitted with two ladies to do the cleaning cooking and pick the nits out of our hair. and a dip. When you open the dip is when you should be eating the little tiny ass chips at the bottom of the bag, but by the time you’ve gotten to them, the little jar is half empty and you have to stick your fingers down in there and get your knuckles covered in dip. Sucks. I think if we had to go back and watch our interaction with women from a 3rd person perspective we’d all have self esteem issues. I’m pretty sure we look retarded pretty much the whole time. I’ve finally justified to my satisfaction the extremely low temperature we keep the apartment in this extremely hot country. Geographic determinism. The heat enervates. That’s why almost every country in the tropics are in the 3rd world. You need that cold to keep busy. Last weekend we had off 5 days due to May 1st being Labor Day, the 2nd being a
Puente or bridge to the weekend and Monday was the Accension or something Catholic. We went to the beach house in the pictures on the beach on the far side of the ecopark. It was nice, it came with two maids who did all of
The river next to the house
This led to Cambodia. Also marks the end of Tayrona park. the cooking and such which took a lot of the work out of staying elsewhere. It slept 10 comfortably, and we had a few tents, air mattresses, and hammocks to up the number. Fairly relaxing, it’s a surfer beach really and since I don’t surf I mostly hung out in the caiman infested river that was next to the house, and invented beach Olympics with rocks, coconuts, and javelin-like stick throwing. I’ve been doing a lot of bureaucracy type stuff lately getting my visa ready for next year. Latin American inefficiency is I think the region’s most striking feature. I think my sister’s feelings on Bush are hilarious, “These days I feel like Jenny's abusive boyfriend in Forest Gump ‘Sorry Jenny, it's just this war and that lying son of a bitch Johnson’” I get the feeling she surpassed me in wittiness some time ago, but like a grandmother who still pays you a dollar every time you mow her lawn I’ve been blissfully ignorant of this fact. I think that no matter who wins the White House this year, Bill should get to be the first husband. For those who care to keep up, we have a better itinerary
now. Leaving June 23rd from Bogota. Meandering down through Quito into Peru, getting into Lima maybe the 1st. Certainly flying from Lima to Cusco the 4th of July. After Cusco, going to Lake Titicaca on the way to La Paz, Bolivia. Heading south to the Uyuni Salt Flats, into Chile. Spending a few days in Santiago with Carly, Colin and Tomas, then going west to Mendoza, Argentina, vineyards and skiing. Hopefully be in Buenos Aires by the 24th, day at Iguazu Falls, day in Uruguay, the rest in BA, flying home the 30th. This plan is bound to fall apart, the only certainties are the flight on the 4th and the flight on the 30th. Last day of school is the 14th I think, due back the 12th of August. Be in the US the weekend of Sept. 20th for Bobby’s wedding and hopefully the week before or after it. Let y’all know on that. Scott and his girl (whose name I should probably learn so she sounds less like property) are meeting us in Quito and planning to do the whole trip with us. Al and Erin in BA, which is the part I’m most excited about, other than having some Boulevard Wheat on Carly and Colin’s mulberry covered back porch. At least that’s how it looks in my dreams. Congratulations to Matt for being less poor. Then again I was pretty happy when I was broke. Probably why I refuse to acknowledge my student loans, so I’ll be able to relive that experience later.
Best Listen this Week Great Lake Swimmers - Bodies and Minds. Very Red HousePainterish.
Best Read this Week The Amber Spyglass - Never read something that passes for a Harry Potter kids book that was so rabidly anti organized religion. Or organised religion since the author is British.
South America on a Shoestring gets an honorable mention.
Best reason to leave Colombia I’m getting too comfortable, living too easy, the joy’s in the struggle.
Best reason to stay Teaching is pretty awesome. I think slackers who became good students make better teachers because they have both perspectives. Hard to get mad at the lazy, wasting their potential crew when you are more like them than the others.
Staying,
Tyrone
You need to learn to be happy by nature because you’ll rarely have the chance to be happy by circumstance. ~ Lavetta Sue Wegman
If you don't know why that's awesome, then... you need awesome lessons. ~ The Office “Dunder Mifflin Infinity”
“Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.” ~ Peggy Noonan, speechwriter for Reagan and Bush Sr.
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