Travel E-mails
An archive of e-mails from my Centeral/South America trip.5/10/2006
The Descision
Well, Last time I wrote (not long ago at all) I was debating a trip to carnival, south america and so on... I have... mostly... come to a conclusion. I booked a flight to Peru, return to Panama, for jan 19th and Feb 18th. I will not be going to Brazil.
The way I see it, what I will be spending on that trip is just disproportionate to the rest of my travels... Rio de Janerio during Carnival is a HUGE tourist party... and I try to think of myself as a Backpacker, an Adventurer, not a Tourist. I have decided to stick to peru, and stick to my origonal (and large enough as it is) budget. I got a FLOOD of e-mails replying to my last one.. so many that I´ve hardly been able to reply to a quarter of them! People who I have not accually corresponded with for over a year! People who have NEVER replied to my e-mails! I must say it was heart warming to see the variety of opinions and ammount of support I got. Thanks guys!
Some say "Stick out Centeral, see it all, do south another time", Others " Hit carnival AS HARD AS YOU CAN! Rock till the rock rolls!" and others yet "Screw Carnival, go to Peru"... In the end, the latter is my choice. I have looked into it, and I am sure that I can, through a travel agent, get a good deal on Carnival 2006 -- staying in a nice hotel and flying from the states... it would cost a little more than heading there from Peru, but it would be a VACATION, which I think Carnival in Rio is supposed to be... A Break from work and cold, not a break from the trail... Who knows, maybe I can convince a few buddies to join me and we´ll pair up with Dun-Dun-Ka and the whole damned city to the ground!! ... or maybe you could just ignore that last comment.
Anyhow. A month in Peru.. might hit Bolivia, Chile, or Ecuador.. but Carnival is out of the way and out of the budget... and as a good friend once said "A party is just a good time with good people" (well.. all travelers are good friends after a few drinks... unfortunatley, I don´t know WHO said this- as I found the quote scribbled shoddily on a paper scrap in my bag a few weeks later.. I don´t even know in what country it was said!!!)
Well. That´s it for this e-mail... Why do they keep dragging on? Because I found an internet place for $ 0.50 per hour, which is a LOT cheaper than the $4.00 per hour charged in Costa Rica.
Rock on!
Zac
The way I see it, what I will be spending on that trip is just disproportionate to the rest of my travels... Rio de Janerio during Carnival is a HUGE tourist party... and I try to think of myself as a Backpacker, an Adventurer, not a Tourist. I have decided to stick to peru, and stick to my origonal (and large enough as it is) budget. I got a FLOOD of e-mails replying to my last one.. so many that I´ve hardly been able to reply to a quarter of them! People who I have not accually corresponded with for over a year! People who have NEVER replied to my e-mails! I must say it was heart warming to see the variety of opinions and ammount of support I got. Thanks guys!
Some say "Stick out Centeral, see it all, do south another time", Others " Hit carnival AS HARD AS YOU CAN! Rock till the rock rolls!" and others yet "Screw Carnival, go to Peru"... In the end, the latter is my choice. I have looked into it, and I am sure that I can, through a travel agent, get a good deal on Carnival 2006 -- staying in a nice hotel and flying from the states... it would cost a little more than heading there from Peru, but it would be a VACATION, which I think Carnival in Rio is supposed to be... A Break from work and cold, not a break from the trail... Who knows, maybe I can convince a few buddies to join me and we´ll pair up with Dun-Dun-Ka and the whole damned city to the ground!! ... or maybe you could just ignore that last comment.
Anyhow. A month in Peru.. might hit Bolivia, Chile, or Ecuador.. but Carnival is out of the way and out of the budget... and as a good friend once said "A party is just a good time with good people" (well.. all travelers are good friends after a few drinks... unfortunatley, I don´t know WHO said this- as I found the quote scribbled shoddily on a paper scrap in my bag a few weeks later.. I don´t even know in what country it was said!!!)
Well. That´s it for this e-mail... Why do they keep dragging on? Because I found an internet place for $ 0.50 per hour, which is a LOT cheaper than the $4.00 per hour charged in Costa Rica.
Rock on!
Zac
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