Taking my final dip

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April 6th 2007

Published: April 6th 2007

I return to you now at the beginning of a new chapter in my journey. The time I commited to working for the better of others has run dry, and with an emotional departure beneath both a full moon and the flashes of lightening on the horizon, I set off in the same old pick-up truck that arrived at 9 to steal away all the other volunteers that departed over the weeks I have been here. Watching the b... Read Full Entry

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Andrew Cassels

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"What do we leave behind when we cross each frontier? Each moment seems to split in two; melancholy for what was left behind and the excitement of entering a new land." (diarios de las motocicletas) My story is one of adventure. A story of two like minded people embarking on a journey into a land whose oldest memories still mark her surface. I am on the verge of realising my dream of touring South America, and throughout this diary that dream shall come to fruition. My travelling partner is my girlfriend, Tracey, whom over the last few years has begun to share my dream, and in the month... full info

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All smiles

in Bunche

Cuter every time

Joselo

Congal island station

The Boys

Ecuadorian Ed and I

rounding up a bit of fire wood

what is he doing?

strange individual

Boy with a crab on a string

why not?

Cuter

Again

this kid

He is faster then steve rickard

wet and not happy

or maybe just camera shy

a bottle

after some time in the mighty pacific

I won the race

Like steve rickard, Joselo was unabvle to compete

Miguel and Olkaldo

Sharing a laugh

kids n empanadas

for me to eat i hope

The Gimp strikes back

yes i must confess

Waiting

for a boat

Boat Ride

Lagertera Beach, at the mouth of Rio Verde

and still waiting

the boat never arrived

Tomates

Anyone for a bite? Photo thanx to Andy

Push

or pull? regardless the bike remains stationary!

Puddles

and glazed over faces

More Mayhem

On the Muisne streets

12th April 2007

Dad
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Wonderful
You're a wonderful critter and a gift to thr world - x

14th April 2007

paduvan on a journey to himself (how pathetic)
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nostalgia
Well. well my friend...it appears that I haven't forgotten everything about this good old mudhole, that I called home myself for a very short period of my life. There was something cracking in me, when I read this words, this familiar descriptions, looked at these pictures from such a different world...it's hopeless, as time turns it just runs over you and there has probably not even staid a trace of my -once so ugly looking- left foot in the mud. whether or not...there will always stay a bit of Lagarterra mud on our feet...

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