Aug 2006

so.. think i almost forgot i was writing this thing.. whats been happeneing.. the truck the kids.. have i seen anything.. oh yeah i have!
I´ve seen some great coast lines, a pirate town which was pretty amazing.. i loved it but unfortunately i didnt see any pirates... many parrots though, maybe there had been a mass culling... some long hours on the truck then..

I went to check out iguazu falls.. amazing.. the brazillian side wins over the argentinian side but all in all it was pretty spectacular.

Done a whole load of camping.. the back was handling it but my brain wasnt handling the essex accents that woke up to on a daily basis.. that´d be 2 members of the toucan tour.

With alot of umming and arring i decided that i didnt want my memories of south america to be scarred of essex accents and with an independent mind as i have i decided i had to go solo on this trip. A harsh decision some might say as i have paid alot of money for this but its a decision i had to go with. I mean i had just spent 10 days in the hands of natives.. literally! oops.. and i loved it... as part of a tour you are seperated from the natives and it sucks.. you dont even need to know when to toilet.. they tell you.. or at least it felt that way. Having sat down with the tour leader a good aussie bloke and the driver they fed me some wine and encouraged me to take what i could from the tour as we do cover some amazing ground.. so i chose to take that route and leave them for a week.. re join them for the good bits and take time out again.. its a good decision i think.

So here i am.. i escaped to a surfing island.. ummm.. interesting bunch as any surfing lover can imagine, no cars all sand tracks.. its rained alot and i have read alot, its off Paranagua, int he south coast of Brazil.. a small island called Ilha do Mel. typically its sunny as i go on the internet...

i have been here for 4 days and today having spoken to myself a little too often today i think i need to leave.. i head on a 30 hour bus journey to Salta in Argentina, bring on the valium... thats where the group are.. so lets see what my reception is like having obviously left as i find them all quite difficult.. ha! i tell ya.. its better than any reality tv thing this.. and the stories i have of me going solo.. geeze.. i cant publish those! until soon omegos! i enter the world of gouchos... ye ha!