The only thing I wish now is to have a conversation with a person who has lived a life like me and is undergoing similar life changes like me has gone in the past. I want to understand if what I think is right and what has been their experience.
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Monday, January 28, 2013
Completion of a new year resolution
Last year, i.e. on Jan 1st 2012, I made a resolution of spending at least 30 days in South America in 2012 and I wrote a post about the resolution. I always wanted to go to South America and backpack there. I am happy to say that I completed my resolution and spent 80 days in South America. How does it feel? Great, insightful, peaceful, content, happy.
We visited 4 countries - Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. The original plan included Brazil and we also planned to go to Brazil until January 2013, but we canceled it after not getting a visa appointment in Buenos Aires. We have another reason to visit SA again for Brazil, Chile and Venezuela and may be also Ecuador again. Most of our inter city trips were by bus except in Argentina were we took flights. We tried to eat at local restaurants wherever we found vegetarian food. We took local buses, trains, subways for intracity travel. We tried to speak spanish with the locals and used a lot of hand gestures :-). We stayed in hostels until they were clean. But unclean hostels really put us off and we stayed at hotels for that matter. Life was good there. We walked so much everyday - more than 10 kms a day. It was tiring but it was fun. We spent endless hours watching people and wildlife and birds spending their day. Just seeing life pass without thinking about work and other things for 80 days makes you realize what are we really doing when we try to fetch more material things in life like a bigger house, a nicer car or a show off dress.
If you would ask me would I go on a trip like this again? My answer would be yes - a better prepared this time. I would spend some time studying the language before making the trip, I will take a spices box with me - food without spices everyday is not motivating.
What did I get from this trip - Just content - heartfelt content.
We visited 4 countries - Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. The original plan included Brazil and we also planned to go to Brazil until January 2013, but we canceled it after not getting a visa appointment in Buenos Aires. We have another reason to visit SA again for Brazil, Chile and Venezuela and may be also Ecuador again. Most of our inter city trips were by bus except in Argentina were we took flights. We tried to eat at local restaurants wherever we found vegetarian food. We took local buses, trains, subways for intracity travel. We tried to speak spanish with the locals and used a lot of hand gestures :-). We stayed in hostels until they were clean. But unclean hostels really put us off and we stayed at hotels for that matter. Life was good there. We walked so much everyday - more than 10 kms a day. It was tiring but it was fun. We spent endless hours watching people and wildlife and birds spending their day. Just seeing life pass without thinking about work and other things for 80 days makes you realize what are we really doing when we try to fetch more material things in life like a bigger house, a nicer car or a show off dress.
If you would ask me would I go on a trip like this again? My answer would be yes - a better prepared this time. I would spend some time studying the language before making the trip, I will take a spices box with me - food without spices everyday is not motivating.
What did I get from this trip - Just content - heartfelt content.
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