AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 5 Apr 2009 | Views [2119] | Comments [3]
In the high heat of midday, very few living things in the desertic valley of Fiambala are stupid enough to out in the sun, let alone trying to get anywhere. The exception, of course, would be one mostly-lazy traveller who has decided to play "... Read more >
Tags: desert, ice, rocks, sand, sarong
ARGENTINA | Friday, 27 Mar 2009 | Views [609] | Comments [1]
My right knee is jammed up against a 50kg sack of dried corn kernals, My left squashed into a 50kg bag of potatoes. One hand holds my hat firmly on my head, the other grips a rusty bar. My arse is balanced on one of two spare balding tyres that spin ... Read more >
Tags: corn, darío, lucian, potatoes, tranquilo, ute
ARGENTINA | Wednesday, 25 Mar 2009 | Views [573] | Comments [1]
Her brain works faster than her words that work faster than her fingers that work faster than the computer. As a consequence, she finds her attention wandering from the stories she wishes to tell. Sorry. Suffice it to say She and Amiga una are in ... Read more >
Tags: empanadas, english, school, uranium
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 21 Mar 2009 | Views [518] | Comments [4]
He´s got one leg longer than the other and only one eye. He is lean and smooth with minimal visible parasites. He is a happy-looking individual, silent, following no rules, eating when he can, swimming and drinking in the lake and seemingly unbothered ... Read more >
Tags: dog, el perro, guide, heladoria
ARGENTINA | Wednesday, 18 Mar 2009 | Photo Gallery
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ARGENTINA | Tuesday, 17 Mar 2009 | Views [833] | Comments [5]
She blinks and she is sitting around a table of 11 people, eating "asdao" the finest saltiest bbq she has ever tasted laughing equally at jokes she cannot understand and ones that she does through means of singular words in Span-glish and ... Read more >
Tags: bbq, love, points, stories
ARGENTINA | Monday, 16 Mar 2009 | Views [1199]
So I am awake again. Hours before any respectable Argentinian or direction-less backpacker. This might have bugged me in my old life. But in this travel hedonism space I now exist, where I literally have nothing I have to achieve today: it doesn´t bother ... Read more >
Tags: cordoba, croissants, hosting, insomnia
ARGENTINA | Saturday, 14 Mar 2009 | Views [719] | Comments [5]
I have been here for 52 hours. 20 of those hours were asleep, or more correctly: lying still, too tired to move. And I am just about to leave. In contiki-tour terms, that would mean that I´ve "done" BA. So some perhaps might even refer ... Read more >
Tags: ba, city, done
ARGENTINA | Saturday, 14 Mar 2009 | Views [786]
There is nothing new about what I do I think as I sit solo in a corner cafe order cafe-con-leche as big as a bowl and realise I´m surrounded by other solos writing in journals typing on laptops cafe bowls by their side. They are all so intent ... Read more >
Tags: cafe, nothing new, solo
ARGENTINA | Thursday, 12 Mar 2009 | Views [513] | Comments [1]
26 hours of travel and she chased the sun back around to another sunset on the opposite end of the globe. She opens the door to her privado room to the lovely smell of 10 thousand smelly feet. but only two beds, they are empty which she is grateful ... Read more >
Tags: blocked toilet, sleep, smelly feet
AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 4 Mar 2009 | Views [505]
I sit at a window in a surprise day of winter so close to summer and try not to think. But write, now, that is something different. The bars outside the window are white and glow in the sun. They are not bars to keep me in, but to keep thieves out.... Read more >
Tags: home, not thinking, orange, pancakes
AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 25 Feb 2009 | Views [511]
I learnt to talk when I was almost three. My mother had to trick me into it, for I would simply point and flutter my eyelashes (she says) and it would be clear to all what I wanted. "What you want? Cabbage?" she'd say at the refrigerator ... Read more >
Tags: listen, milk, talk, words
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 14 Feb 2009 | Views [507]
Quiet is underrated with a double r. A punctuation mark, if you will, between the coming and going, the speaking and fidgetting, singing and yelling, slamming of car doors, TV blaring and egg sizzling sentences that make up our days. A well-needed ... Read more >
Tags: punctuation, quiet, space, time out
AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 11 Feb 2009 | Views [919] | Comments [2]
One might be forgiven for feeling like hospitals are depressing places. People are nervous What-is-happening-what will-happen-can-they-do-something? Everything is sterilsed to avoid ... Read more >
Tags: 6th floor, flowers, hospital, nurses, refreshment, sick
AUSTRALIA | Monday, 9 Feb 2009 | Views [398] | Comments [1]
She watches disasters from the safety of her living room. Too much water in the north Too much fire in the south She was just in the middle worrying about silly things. How blessed her life be. How small and yet precious it is to her. She ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Monday, 9 Feb 2009 | Views [804] | Comments [2]
As the latest friend calls up and speaks of how her lovely but stupid boyfriend just dumped her, I need to ask the question: Does the percentage chance of finding a reasonably commited beloved dramatically reduce with the relative happiness, health, ... Read more >
Tags: awesome, babies, jaded, procreation, single
AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 4 Feb 2009 | Views [624] | Comments [1]
There's a place I go when all else fails To make me feel human I thank god it is close enough that my 1979 blue corolla called "Jenkins" has enough working parts to get me there. It has space and grass and weeds and sky and a wee ... Read more >
Tags: bogans, eagles, escape, nature, sanctuary, waterhole
AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 1 Feb 2009 | Views [6109] | Comments [4]
My grandmother called this morning. She has had a stroke so I have to listen really hard to make out what she is saying. I have her punch-in-the-face black eyes when I'm tired and her olive skin. She thinks about a lot of things. She says "... Read more >
Tags: conversation, frogs, grandmothers, septic
AUSTRALIA | Friday, 30 Jan 2009 | Views [903] | Comments [1]
There are two extraordinarily loud clocks in my parents house. I can hear them both from "my" room. The room where the door doesn't shut properly. Correction, it can shut, but as I discovered the first night I stayed, it just won't ... Read more >
Tags: crazy, parents, postpone, trip, twos
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