By myself...
I just said goodbye to Niki. Its kinda nice to be by myself again, its been great to travel with her though & was a little sad to say bye. I've been really lucky with this trip & haven't been by myself for long so I spose when I need to Ill meet up with someone else :) That's the great thing about traveling!
I'm in this wonderful sleepy little town where everything (except this internet place) is closed on Sunday. I think it would be so cool to live in a place like this because you'd be forced to do nothing but chill out on a Sunday. Its actually really pretty here. The streets are cobblestones & there is a old section down by the waterfront. We would have sat down there for at least 3 hours or so today just people watching. People actually drive their kids there so they can ride their bikes. I feel really safe here. Tomorrow Ill head out to a island & maybe stay there for a few nights, Ill see what happens.
Been thinking about what it is Id like to "do". One thing that tickles my fancy is buying a old building somewhere (I still have way to much of the world to see before I can decide where though) & renovating it to turn it into a kick ass hostel. The other thing I think Id really enjoy is been a tour guide. I loved the trip I did with Connection Adventures in OZ, & think Id make a pretty good guide. I really enjoy this whole moving round thing, although at times it can be stressful & a pain in the ass.
Had a conversation today with Niki about how people were asking her if she's enjoying her "holiday". We really think that only 40 or 50% of what were doing could be called a holiday and the other... Traveling from place to place, carrying all your possessions in a backpack, not speaking the language & been away form family & friends (for like a year or more) & when something goes wrong it can all kinda suck. Not to mention a lot of the places that I´ve been don't even have toilet paper! ;)
Its funny, on Friday when I was feeling like crap I kinda reverted to the stressed out version of myself. So far I´ve managed not to get stressed about things & just let them happen. Like in Santiago I was late for my plane (think I "wrote" (with a actual pen & paper) a post but forgot to put it on line... Will look that one up) but there was nothing I could do so there was no point stressing, it all worked out anyway. On Friday we were going to try & fit in the Brazilian side of the falls along with some duty free shopping in Paraguay then catch the bus. I kept looking at my watch & stressing about how much time we had & if we were going to fit everything in. Um, really, I cant fit a whole lot more into my pack so if I didn't make it (which we didn't) to duty free shopping it wouldn't have been the end of the world. It honestly scared me a bit that it only took me feeling crap to turn back into a stress head. Something Ill have to work on me thinks.
Something else pretty cool happened the other night too, with all the pholophising on the bus form Rio to Foz. I´ve always done this thing, it goes, "On the first star I see tonight I wish I may I wish I might, have the wish I wish tonight" & then I make my wish. For the first time in over a year I wished for something different. I realized that my wish had come true & there was no point wishing for it anymore - how cool is that! The standard wish was "to be happy". The new one... Well, cant tell you cause it might not come true :)
I'm still a tad sick so are going to have a early night. At the moment I´m uploading some more photos. I didn't realize that I'm 2 whole cds behind! Plus the whole MP CD too. It just sucks that it takes so long.
Paranagua - Brazil, Sunday 6th June 2004, 6.45pm
I'm in this wonderful sleepy little town where everything (except this internet place) is closed on Sunday. I think it would be so cool to live in a place like this because you'd be forced to do nothing but chill out on a Sunday. Its actually really pretty here. The streets are cobblestones & there is a old section down by the waterfront. We would have sat down there for at least 3 hours or so today just people watching. People actually drive their kids there so they can ride their bikes. I feel really safe here. Tomorrow Ill head out to a island & maybe stay there for a few nights, Ill see what happens.
Been thinking about what it is Id like to "do". One thing that tickles my fancy is buying a old building somewhere (I still have way to much of the world to see before I can decide where though) & renovating it to turn it into a kick ass hostel. The other thing I think Id really enjoy is been a tour guide. I loved the trip I did with Connection Adventures in OZ, & think Id make a pretty good guide. I really enjoy this whole moving round thing, although at times it can be stressful & a pain in the ass.
Had a conversation today with Niki about how people were asking her if she's enjoying her "holiday". We really think that only 40 or 50% of what were doing could be called a holiday and the other... Traveling from place to place, carrying all your possessions in a backpack, not speaking the language & been away form family & friends (for like a year or more) & when something goes wrong it can all kinda suck. Not to mention a lot of the places that I´ve been don't even have toilet paper! ;)
Its funny, on Friday when I was feeling like crap I kinda reverted to the stressed out version of myself. So far I´ve managed not to get stressed about things & just let them happen. Like in Santiago I was late for my plane (think I "wrote" (with a actual pen & paper) a post but forgot to put it on line... Will look that one up) but there was nothing I could do so there was no point stressing, it all worked out anyway. On Friday we were going to try & fit in the Brazilian side of the falls along with some duty free shopping in Paraguay then catch the bus. I kept looking at my watch & stressing about how much time we had & if we were going to fit everything in. Um, really, I cant fit a whole lot more into my pack so if I didn't make it (which we didn't) to duty free shopping it wouldn't have been the end of the world. It honestly scared me a bit that it only took me feeling crap to turn back into a stress head. Something Ill have to work on me thinks.
Something else pretty cool happened the other night too, with all the pholophising on the bus form Rio to Foz. I´ve always done this thing, it goes, "On the first star I see tonight I wish I may I wish I might, have the wish I wish tonight" & then I make my wish. For the first time in over a year I wished for something different. I realized that my wish had come true & there was no point wishing for it anymore - how cool is that! The standard wish was "to be happy". The new one... Well, cant tell you cause it might not come true :)
I'm still a tad sick so are going to have a early night. At the moment I´m uploading some more photos. I didn't realize that I'm 2 whole cds behind! Plus the whole MP CD too. It just sucks that it takes so long.
Paranagua - Brazil, Sunday 6th June 2004, 6.45pm
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