Sunday, March 23, 2008

Home

"People don't take trips . . . trips take people".
John Steinbeck

"How beautiful it is to do nothing and then rest afterwards".
Spanish Proverb




There is no other way to say this, so I will just say how it is: I am back. Dramatic, huh? Well, I know that many people did not even think that I would be back anymore. But after exactly one year being in Latin America I am back home in NYC

I changed my RTW (Round the World) trip to RLA (Round Latin America) about half a year ago; I was intending to see it all. I have realized however that it was not possible, even a lifetime is not enough to see the entire LA wonderful world. But after a year being out there, spending my nights looking up the unfamiliar sky, walking the unknown streets, talking to “single serving” friends, eating strange food, I gradually grew tired.

Out of this 12 months I probably spent weeks, maybe months on buses and trains, boats and yachts, trucks and cars, planes and other means of transportations some of them were so bizzare, that there is no even a name for them in English. I slept in strange beds and floors, I slept on the ground and on the beach, on the rooftops and porches, and I slept in hummocks and on benches, plus countless hours in terminals and airports.

I have seen so much. I have learned a great deal. I have missed home. I have returned.

Thank you everybody for your support.



P.S. Hopefully will be posting my travel stories in this blog, now that I actually have time to write it… Don’t get any ideas - I said hopefully.

P.P.S. My US cell phone number stayed the same

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Incomunicado

I am in Cuba now. The internet access is very difficult to obtain and extremely expensive. I will be out of contact for about a month, so please, don't be alarmed. Cuba is very strange country but very safe. Will post additional info as soon as I can but for now I am diving in into a world full of mysteries, double economy, black markets and very interesting people, it is like using a time machine, I am not yet sure I like it.

My spanish is up to date and my russian serves me here very well. I am staying in Havana in a very intellectual family, they speak 5 languages, in 4 of which we can communicate.

Adios.

PS I whish I could tell you about Brazil but that would have to wait.