Well its been over a month since my last post. And I'd like to apologize. Yes I am very far behind, and unfortunately won't start producing my travel adventures until I settle into my work routine here in Buenos Aires. Funny enough, I've been asked to maintain the blog at The Wallstreet institute where I work as well, so now I'll be writing twice as much, but will have time to do so once my mornings clear up.
But for now let me fill you in on where I've been and what I've been doing. After leaving La Paz, I travelled north to beautiful Lake Titticacca... thats just fun to say isn't it. Here Copacabana was beautiful but the most serenely inspiring place I've been in mylast three months of travel was most definitely Isla de Sol, which is a two hour ferry ride from Copacabana and situated on a small island in the middle of this immense, 12,000-foot-high lake, famous for being the highest navigatable lake in the world. The sunset and sunrise can both be witnessed from the top of the island, and are absolutely breathtaking when filtered through the massive peaks that stand in the distance, capped in snow. If I ever figure out how to make actual money with this writing gig, this is where I will spend some time alone with my word play.
After leaving Lake Titticacca... there it is again...hehe... I traveled to Cusco for the 5 day Salkantay trek through the glacier covered mountains to Machu Picchu. Exploring the ancient marvel, and squeezing it for every dime I could I returned to cusco where I learned upon arriving that I had gotten a teaching job in BsAs. With 3 weeks left until I started work I fled to the beach for some ocean time.
Arriving in Mancora, Peru, I spent the next 2 weeks relaxing on the beach and sipping margaritas... wait thats not right... I spent the next to weeks, learning to kitesurf with my buddy Rein Peterson... you can can find him on my facebook if your interested... and having some vodka slushies by the pool. My team won the Loki Olympics at Loki hostel in Mancora, which was good because I got a free shirt and I've lost a lot of clothes this trip and after 2 weeks of soaking in the sun, I then flew back to BsAs for my new job via the airport in Quayaquil, Ecuador (Where a career U.S. Army Captain offered me his 3 daughters... hehe... I think they were getting on his nerves so I found it prudent to decline.)
Back here in BsAs a week now, I have already found an apartment with a family of columbians (cousins, spouses and brother-in laws mostly) from ages 22-27. I speak spanish and hear spanish everyday... enough so to overload my feeble brain, and only really speak english when I'm at work. I play soccer everyday for 2-3 hours at a park 5 blocks from my house and am looking forward to starting my first lesson at my new job. I may have my first lesson tomorrow, though officially Im not supposed to start until monday (the training went fast). Either way, I sink in to my new work schedule on monday (5-9pm, Monday - Friday) and will soon have my mornings free again to write. So until then, I'm going to horde my pictures and my travels and should start getting them out into internet land by the end of next week. Hope your still with me and all is well in your little corners of the world. Chau for now.
But for now let me fill you in on where I've been and what I've been doing. After leaving La Paz, I travelled north to beautiful Lake Titticacca... thats just fun to say isn't it. Here Copacabana was beautiful but the most serenely inspiring place I've been in mylast three months of travel was most definitely Isla de Sol, which is a two hour ferry ride from Copacabana and situated on a small island in the middle of this immense, 12,000-foot-high lake, famous for being the highest navigatable lake in the world. The sunset and sunrise can both be witnessed from the top of the island, and are absolutely breathtaking when filtered through the massive peaks that stand in the distance, capped in snow. If I ever figure out how to make actual money with this writing gig, this is where I will spend some time alone with my word play.
After leaving Lake Titticacca... there it is again...hehe... I traveled to Cusco for the 5 day Salkantay trek through the glacier covered mountains to Machu Picchu. Exploring the ancient marvel, and squeezing it for every dime I could I returned to cusco where I learned upon arriving that I had gotten a teaching job in BsAs. With 3 weeks left until I started work I fled to the beach for some ocean time.
Arriving in Mancora, Peru, I spent the next 2 weeks relaxing on the beach and sipping margaritas... wait thats not right... I spent the next to weeks, learning to kitesurf with my buddy Rein Peterson... you can can find him on my facebook if your interested... and having some vodka slushies by the pool. My team won the Loki Olympics at Loki hostel in Mancora, which was good because I got a free shirt and I've lost a lot of clothes this trip and after 2 weeks of soaking in the sun, I then flew back to BsAs for my new job via the airport in Quayaquil, Ecuador (Where a career U.S. Army Captain offered me his 3 daughters... hehe... I think they were getting on his nerves so I found it prudent to decline.)
Back here in BsAs a week now, I have already found an apartment with a family of columbians (cousins, spouses and brother-in laws mostly) from ages 22-27. I speak spanish and hear spanish everyday... enough so to overload my feeble brain, and only really speak english when I'm at work. I play soccer everyday for 2-3 hours at a park 5 blocks from my house and am looking forward to starting my first lesson at my new job. I may have my first lesson tomorrow, though officially Im not supposed to start until monday (the training went fast). Either way, I sink in to my new work schedule on monday (5-9pm, Monday - Friday) and will soon have my mornings free again to write. So until then, I'm going to horde my pictures and my travels and should start getting them out into internet land by the end of next week. Hope your still with me and all is well in your little corners of the world. Chau for now.
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