Blog Action Day 2009 approaches. Topic: Climate Change
Blog Action Day is coming up once again and this time the topic is Climate Change. Get involved
Blog Action Day is coming up once again and this time the topic is Climate Change. Get involved
This post may be a bit intense and upsetting for some people – it is a journal entry relating to the loss of a good friend recently.
I indulge in two types of creative activity aside from designing solutions to software problems
: music – I play the mandolin and violin and sing a little; and I sketch. Both music and sketching are for my own amusement and I have no intention of that ever being otherwise (so before you tell me I’m crap, lol@you – I knew that already!). (continued)
I’ve fallen so far behind with posting about my trip, I feel like it is starting to interfere with what was my usual blogging routine before I went away. I start to want to blog about something and then think “ah, but I really am so far behind… the task seems enormous”. Well, to hell with linearity – in the words of my friend Scott, “linearity is for losers”. I’ll continue to blog about whatever I want, and will interweave my posts and memories and stories and rants from my trips. If you don’t like it, stay in the past with your “continuity” and your “order”. Or whatever.
So! Strap yourselves in for a mega-update-a-thon.
Before I left for South America, I remember wondering about the famed “travel bug” (the addiction to travel, not a stomach upset
) and whether I would catch it. I wondered what it was about travelling that had so many addicted. Now I think there might be side to that story that may not be all that clear to those who haven’t done it…
The trip from Uyuni to La Paz was not at all what my friends expected, and La Paz wasn’t what I had imagined either…well, I didn’t imagine old Bolivian women making fun of me (d’oh)
Jay and I walked across the border from Argentina to Bolivia at the twin towns of La Quiaca (Argentina) and Villazón (Bolivia). You can’t catch buses across the border – you need to walk or go by car. The crossing is actually formed by a very small bridge over a dried river bed, the border posts at either end…
Today is Blog Action Day around the world and this year’s topic is poverty. As I am currently in Bolivia I thought I’d post a little about the country, some statistics and a little about the current situation.
Blog Action Day is an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about the same issue on the same day. Our aim is to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion. This year, Blog Action Day is on Wednesday the 15th October and is on the topic [...]
A 23 hour bus ride from Iguazu to Salta left me feeling a little drained, but it was still good to see a familiar face in Jay when I arrived. Through some fluke we both ended up there at the same time, and were planning to travel north in roughly the same direction at the same time too. high five
Salta was warm, fairly tranquil and generally a nice city….