thinking about applying for the FBI, just for kicks, so i can learn basic tactical hands-on combat and guns, so i can learn how to shoot and reload a gun.
I see how some people i know are always on the road, traveling, looks like they always seem to have fun. I see this as they travel around the world while posting snapshots of their experience on facebook. im sure they can't be saving too much money. meaning less for retirement and all that luxury and jazz. is it worth it, to live now while you are still young? absolutely.
So im thinking about doing another trip. a longer trip this time, longer than a mere 2 weeks. thinking about going to Tibet with my brother, then climb Mt Kilaminjaro, then go visit Iran (via tour, the only way for us Americans), then possibly some other exoctic local, like the Great Barrier Reed (do some long awaited SCUBA diving).
I'm saving like a pack rate, but for what? If our world as we know it will come to an end circa 2012, why save all this wealth? It will be useless come the "end of the world". Anyway, i better start living now then later.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Sunday, December 14, 2008
YouTube Viewer Hits
It's been 2 years since my posting of Song from a Secret Garden. So far it's generated 484,035 views. I guess that's not bad, but it certainly could be better! My goal is obviously hit the 1,000,000 mark. Hmm, let's see....how can i help promote more viewing of this video? And it's not just for views. I think watching this causes every body to pause and search their soul. This is a good thing. A needed thing.
Song from a Secret Garden
Peace.
Song from a Secret Garden
Peace.
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Bolivia Crossing
- Log: April 26, 2008 -
In Argentina, Buenos Aires, people tend to greet each other with a small kiss on the cheek, or a simulated mock kiss, on both cheeks. This is very cool.
I will need to return to this place called Buenos Aires just because I didn't get the city tour as I was expecting. I can blame GAP Adventures solely on this.
Speaking of GAP, my first tour with them, Bolivia Crossing, was a blast, though not quite what I was expecting. I found that I totally welcomed the occasional luxuries familiar to me (hot showers). Boy am I getting soft - I like such luxuries.
- Highlights of Bolivia Crossing -
1) A stroll along cosmopolitan Buenos Aires.
This was familiar territory as I've seen such "craziness" before in other cosmopolitan mega-cities.
2) Uyuni Salt Flat Solo
Spending time away from the tour group was cool, standing, sitting, and walking, and pondering all alone in the middle of an ancient salty seabed, surrounded by glistening, blinding, snowy salt crystals; nothing but me, the white salts, the blue sky, the whistling wind, and the cold, deafening silence.
3) Atacama Sand Boarding
Exotic scenery, miles of dirt, crazy sand dunes. Need i say more?
4) Death Road
Surviving "the world's most dangerous road" was easily the highlight of the Bolivia Crossing even though it was completely optional. I'm not the kind of person that easily puts his life on the line like this. But for some reason this one was calling my name. Like with many things I fear I can block out the cause of the phobia and deal with it, because dealing with it is equivalent to surviving it. Except for spiders. I can't deal with spiders. And snakes too.
5) A Stroll Along Potosi
Potosi, Bolivia is one of those places you can't believe you're in. It's remote yet is bustling with energy on certain parts of the day. Walk thru the main streets in the Potosi if you want to easily experience that feeling of discovering the world that relatively few will see at first hand.
Addendum:
I don't know why i didn't include this in my journal, but Potosi is a huge silver mining community. During this silver mine tour we were warned of the terrible conditions. I'd say this is accurate to truth. Interestingly I went thru the active mines with 2 sticks of dynamites strapped to my belt. While down in the wet darkness I witnessed miners, and miles of eerie mined canals. We crossed over a huge black hole in the ground which was used to hoist buckets of rocks (it was being used during our jump!!). The man-made caverns are not just muddy arteries with railroad tracks. Some of the mines go deep, very deep, straight into the abyss, the darkest reaches of the silver enriched mountain's bowels. When I used my head lamp to see more I could only see more tunnels. Some of these were so tall and so deep I couldn't see the ceiling nor the floor. And the farther I looked towards the horizon, the more the darkness swallowed the light.
In Argentina, Buenos Aires, people tend to greet each other with a small kiss on the cheek, or a simulated mock kiss, on both cheeks. This is very cool.
I will need to return to this place called Buenos Aires just because I didn't get the city tour as I was expecting. I can blame GAP Adventures solely on this.
Speaking of GAP, my first tour with them, Bolivia Crossing, was a blast, though not quite what I was expecting. I found that I totally welcomed the occasional luxuries familiar to me (hot showers). Boy am I getting soft - I like such luxuries.
- Highlights of Bolivia Crossing -
1) A stroll along cosmopolitan Buenos Aires.
This was familiar territory as I've seen such "craziness" before in other cosmopolitan mega-cities.
2) Uyuni Salt Flat Solo
Spending time away from the tour group was cool, standing, sitting, and walking, and pondering all alone in the middle of an ancient salty seabed, surrounded by glistening, blinding, snowy salt crystals; nothing but me, the white salts, the blue sky, the whistling wind, and the cold, deafening silence.
3) Atacama Sand Boarding
Exotic scenery, miles of dirt, crazy sand dunes. Need i say more?
4) Death Road
Surviving "the world's most dangerous road" was easily the highlight of the Bolivia Crossing even though it was completely optional. I'm not the kind of person that easily puts his life on the line like this. But for some reason this one was calling my name. Like with many things I fear I can block out the cause of the phobia and deal with it, because dealing with it is equivalent to surviving it. Except for spiders. I can't deal with spiders. And snakes too.
5) A Stroll Along Potosi
Potosi, Bolivia is one of those places you can't believe you're in. It's remote yet is bustling with energy on certain parts of the day. Walk thru the main streets in the Potosi if you want to easily experience that feeling of discovering the world that relatively few will see at first hand.
Addendum:
I don't know why i didn't include this in my journal, but Potosi is a huge silver mining community. During this silver mine tour we were warned of the terrible conditions. I'd say this is accurate to truth. Interestingly I went thru the active mines with 2 sticks of dynamites strapped to my belt. While down in the wet darkness I witnessed miners, and miles of eerie mined canals. We crossed over a huge black hole in the ground which was used to hoist buckets of rocks (it was being used during our jump!!). The man-made caverns are not just muddy arteries with railroad tracks. Some of the mines go deep, very deep, straight into the abyss, the darkest reaches of the silver enriched mountain's bowels. When I used my head lamp to see more I could only see more tunnels. Some of these were so tall and so deep I couldn't see the ceiling nor the floor. And the farther I looked towards the horizon, the more the darkness swallowed the light.
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