PERU | Saturday, 18 Sep 2010 | Views [516] | Comments [1]
Turning the page It´s been almost 6 months since I stepped off the plane in Quito, with clean clothes and wide eyes. Now I have 1 day left in South America. Soon I will be back in Nelson, my home, back to people and places ... Read more >
PERU | Sunday, 29 Aug 2010 | Views [357] | Comments [1]
I reread all my previous journal entries for the first time. What struck me is the change from the first few to the last ones. A profound personal change has taken place and is visible in the writing style and content. But it´s an illusion, it doesnt ... Read more >
COLOMBIA | Saturday, 7 Aug 2010 | Views [501]
This is an eclectic account of the last two months of travel. Some parts of my trip are covered in detail, others briefly and yet more omitted entirely. It has been constructed from notes and scribblings written at the time and my memories as I write it ... Read more >
ECUADOR | Friday, 4 Jun 2010 | Views [346] | Comments [1]
Travelling with a quietly shifting perspective, A dusty bag of patched up clothes, A flute, some books and worn down boots. Behind me the past, a whispering river Of impressions and memories of thoughts, Ahead the future, the widening ocean of chance, ... Read more >
NEW ZEALAND | Friday, 4 Jun 2010 | Views [275]
Travelling with a quietly shifting perspective, A dusty bag of patched up clothes, A flute, some books and worn down boots. Behind me the past, a whispering river Of impressions and memories of thoughts, Ahead the future, the widening ocean of chance, ... Read more >
ECUADOR | Friday, 30 Apr 2010 | Views [641]
Who am I, To say what the future holds? For way to way, day to day, Time a rolled up cloth unfolds, Only at the pace I go so, Foot before Foot before Foot. Who am I, To say what lies in the past, For memory my fickle friend, Prefers to change and to ... Read more >
NEW ZEALAND | Thursday, 8 Apr 2010 | Views [562] | Comments [3]
Whether it was the fruit con maggots, the roasted corn with hunks of
tepid pork fat, or the salad (stupid stupid) I will never know, but
food poisoning is no fun. A 6am rush to the toilet was followed by an
uncomfatable day of sleep and nausea, ... Read more >
NEW ZEALAND | Tuesday, 30 Mar 2010 | Views [471] | Comments [7]
Quito I live in a room that violently shakes when cars
pass by. From the window I see an immense winged Virgin Mary, a steak
house, a beer factory and the hills of Quito stretching into the
distance . With nearly 2 million people, the worlds ... Read more >
