Thursday, May 04, 2006

Reiteration of things reiterated during the retelling of a story

In the last six weeks I have slept in 19 different beds, shared dormitory style bedrooms with over 86 people and slept over 8 hours approximately once. (I had a niner). Needless to say, I was happy to get back to my Santiago Family's house, wash my clothes and get abused on the tenis court by the mom. She's a gamer.

My patagonia trip was extremely successful as I accomplished everything I set out to do and I even found a new love of my life (other than Olga). The mildly lucky girl is named Sahne. She's a giver. Costly at times, but well worth the economic output.

(Part 1 of a 2 part series) My trip in a 30 second recap:
Went hiking in Torres Del Paines with the Kitty* of backpacks, nearly dropped a nut trying to carry Kitty, stepped in horse poo (plural), met Hurricane Olga, ate too many wheat based products, smelled like rotting fish, saw the Towers at sunrise, smiled gleefully, and hightailed it out of the park. Didn't get giardia, giving way to additional gleeful smile.

Rented a car and drove to the bottom of the world (Ushuaia), where we got a nice apartment and planned a party. No one showed up. Tim and Ryan returned to their respective countries, and for the first time, I was on my own. To combat this loneliness, I went to the most remote and untravelled islands in Chile, partially because they had a Bar on sunken ship and mostly because they had beavers with unstoppable work ethics. Hiked 8 hours in one day, got lost, walked in dark, it rained, fell in puddle, Boat Bar was closed when I got back into town. Became noticably aggrevated. Got stranded on this Island for 3 days, met Sahne for the first time, and paid an absurd amount of money for the dingy ride back to Ushuaia. Back at the faux bottom of the world I had my first taste of Hostel Life, and it tasted like shit, as I had some legendary snorers who, like the beavers, were diligent in their craft. Saw 500 year time capsule. Took picture of 500 year time capsule. Returned to 500 year time capsule, to confirm that someone actually put together 500 year time capsule.

Flew to Calafate, Argentina (in a plane) to see a glacier from a boat. Witnessed the happiest person on a the face of the earth: 65 year old german man on the boat drinking scotch at 10AM with glacier ice in his glass. I believe he enjoyed 3 of them. The boat ride was 35 minutes long. Went back to Calafate, which had 3,000 people living there in 1999. Now they have 12,000. They expect 50,000 by 2016. They are rabbits.

Travels from Bariloche to Chiloe "Manana" (spanish for.. actually, if you don't know what Manana means, please contact Blahvi so he can take a taxi to your house and gently hit you over the head with a taxi cab medallion that he probably stole).

*Kitty was our morbidly obese cat from 1985-2000 who had no tail, limited fur on her butt, a belly that shook like a bowl full of jelly (assuming the bowl was on the ground) and 22 pounds on her sleek frame. The average cat weighs 7-12 pounds. Kitty was a gamer though, and was certainly chill with me.

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