First up: Honorable Mention
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“It´s my Birthday!” Well, It was!
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“It´s 5:00 in the morning, can you…turn the music down”? (It was actually 6:00 in the morning, but I thought that wouldn’t really help my case)
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“I don´t speak French. I speak Marseille” (sounds like fighting words)
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“IT´S 4:30 IN THE MORNING, SHUT UP! [...]
Top 10 Qutoes
March 4 10
Antarctica Continued
March 4 10
Table of Contents
A Tongue Lashing
Uncharted Waters
Shaking Earth
Behind the Scenes at the BBC
Calories burnt
Antarctic Fashion
Farewell quotes
A quick summary of some notes from The White Continent
Well, one night, we were all having some dinks in the ship’s top floor bar. As I wander down the stairs back to my room, I pass a wall full of [...]
Beyond the End of the World
February 8 10
One major reason I decided to come to South America was to eventually make it to Antarctica. A place that, while I can´t say I have always wanted to visit, has had an appeal to me for some time. Many people I have met while traveling through South America feel that they have [...]
The Road South
January 8 10
An angry Santa Claus
A summertime Christmas on the Beach
Grumpy travel Partners
Hail Storms
A quest for absurdly large pyrotechnics
P.S. The Road South is full of Tangents
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Argentinian National Route 3 starts in the Federal Capital of Buenos Aires and its way through Patagonia down the Atlantic Coast, ending some 1,900 miles later in Argentina´s southernmost province, Tierra [...]
Notes from Buenos Aires
December 24 09
Hello. It has been quite a while. Just wanted to give you all a quick update from Buenos Aires.
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Backhanded compliments
Is that a gun in your pocket or are you really a guy?
Copious amounts of wireless internet
A free market for driving
How to know you are about to contract or are currently contracting [...]
Observations in Colombia
November 10 09
¨Dear fellas, I can´t believe how fast things move on the outside. I saw an automobile once when I was a kid, but now they´re everywhere. The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry¨
-Brooks
well it´s been a while, Colombia has been amazing and very interesting bla bla bla.
A few [...]
Laughing at oneself
October 8 09
A while back I met a very wise and pensive guy who recommended that in order to be happy, we must, ”take time to laugh at ourselves”. In light of this suggestion, I offer the following four stories.
1. Paranoia doesn’t pay off or Watch out for that [...]
a tale of two givers
September 19 09
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The First Man
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¨Come on!¨ shouted William Roberts in a thick Irish accent, ¨Show him what this thing has got.¨ The brand new loaded Honda Pilot sped along the highway, passing a taxi like it had pulled over. ¨When he steps on it, you´ll actually feel it, COME ON! Put your foot down.¨ The [...]
5 minute comparison of Trinidad/Tobago and Venezuela
September 15 09
VENEZUELA : V
TRINIDAD/TOBAGO : TT
MUSIC : TT
AFFORDIBILITY : V
STATUES OF SIMON BOLIVAR : V
CITIES : TT
AESTHETICS : TT
FRIENDLINESS TO STRANGERS : V
NUMBER OF DREADLOCKS : TT
PEOPLE ¨PAYING TRIBUTE TO DJ AM¨ IN THE STREET DURING DAYLIGHT HOURS [...]
30 days…30 numbers
September 5 09
40 – Empanadas eaten
.07 – price for a Liter of gas. But that’s in BsF. This translates to $0.048/gallon this if for 91 octane as well, for a few extra cents/tank you can even find 95 octane. There is a noticeable quieteness in the country because there is NO discussion of gas prices. [...]