my mind my life

well i´m here staying the last night in a hostel on this journey, tomorrow night i have the pleasure of a 16 hour bus journey to sao paulo and then the following afternoon thats it wham bam thank you man and i´ll be on that british airways flight to heathrow.

now its sorting out my life time the whats the wheres the whos and the whys, thats the big question and the next part that i´m looking forward to, i have some ideas of what i want todo with it but i really don´t know there are so many questions in my head and answers are probarly in there as well but well people that have met me on this trip will know connecting questions to answers isn´t my major strong point at the moment.

i´m looking forward to catching up with sarah and bec on sunday for my pre birthday celebrations and then with marky and bostock on the 9th when they make there way back to good old blighty, now if only jay could make an apperance then it would almost be oxford street again, just brucey missing in action in brazil still i think i haven´t had enough time to find out and email him.

and i´m planning on catching up with friends and family as soon as possible which could be a few weeks or maybe even months we will see how quickly i get to where i am headed and what might be on the horizon.

well i have been on the death train and then relaxed on a farm in the pantanal for 3 days where i saw wildlife and took the easy life, then its been almost 24 hours on a bus !! yes that long, and i am tired and wait a minute fucking tired after it as i haven’t slept, but i am now in agrentina to see the biggest waterfalls in the world i believe or so i have been told although there is 70% less water than there should be at this time of year normally i hear.

but life has been good and i have worked out that the first stop in the UK for me is going to be Brixton to catch up with sarah and see how life back in UK is going to be.

well santa cruz is not really upto the bolivian standards of nuts ness and chaos that i have been used to but it is a welcome return to be back at 400 meters above sea level and the sun is out and the heat has returned, it seems more european and expensive that all the other places that i have been to, but in the same sentence its nice in its own little way, and i’m staying in a place with a pool so life is good, and tomorrow i have the joy of getting onto the death train, although we have decided to take the 13 hour fast service and as long as it doesn’t break down we wont have any problems !

i’ve been feeling the under the weather the past couple of days as well god alone knows why but i think its probarly the heat again and maybe having air that is breathable and getting over the partying that i was doing in la paz, but i am looking forward to getting to brazil the final destination on my whirlwind tour of south america, and am looking forward to the planning of the next trip and working out exactly where i want to be going and maybe a little more planning or maybe less i don’t know, we will have to see.

what is next on the horizon for me well if i knew that i would be already doing it, looking to find somewhere to call home for a little while then looking to find home permenantly after another we trip i think, or maybe try living in a few citys for a few months to see what they are like, i really don’t know all i need is someone to tell me it would be so much easier, cross roads are wonderful things when there are 2 options and that flip of a coin fixes all ill’s !

yeah i finally made it out of la paz, i think i might have been there for 11 days and did i see much ummm not really i was just getting over my illness of peru and puno and it was perfect, i was staying at the adventure brew hostel and with the black cat in antigua and the secret garden in quito these are the best places i have stayed at, and the staff in the hostel were grand, i can’t remember all there names but anna, shawn and micky with craig made the time perfect and just what i needed shake out the cobwebs also the free half a beer a night is the perfect way to get everyone together and when it was bbq night well that was just about every second night it got everyone in the perfect mood, i think maybe my 1 hostel with the other 2 tied for second, its a hard one cause the black cat was one of those places but its not in la paz and la paz has that nutsness about it that makes it my type of place!

now when it comes to the right sort of people to have fun with they were all there Mick (the western ause) Finola (there’s always the irish) Biz (an american that lives in Barca - so not really american) and all the others names i forget, wait there was Blake (another yank but what a yank only a shame he didn’t stay longer to see the snow we saw ) and rowan and nora from my time in san pedro turned up as well so its been the highlight of south america for me although seeing machu pichu was a dream come true this was most deffinetly a party that i needed and haddent had properly since leaving Melbourne.

i’m in sucre now after a fun journey the bus stopping for no reason for what seemed like hours, the police coming aboard looking for drugs and the fact that trying to leave la paz bus station is fun in its self, put your bag here no you can’t go out this door until you have paid your tax and its like where is the tax place to pay ? then where’s the bus its there no its there no its here in 1 minute no well yes and i hadn’t been doing anything to bad for a few days, its going to but fun tomorrow when i sort out my ticket to santa cruz which is like a 20 hour bus ride, thankfully this county sell valium and xanax if you need to help yourself off to sleep

so i’m looking forward to catching up with everyone i met in la paz for more of the same where ever we end up or maybe thats where ever i end up cause thats the big thing on my mind and the decision i have to make but i will be in london or around there for a little bit and the south west and east and fuck i don’t know life is so much easier on the road and i do have a few quid tucked away for that next trip

i even have some photo’s that i have t put online or probarly i will just send a mass mail.

Oh yeah if and of you AB Hostel people find this post i shaved today yes thats right i managed it, and the ipod is back on form again to !!!!!!!