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Dejame en Paz

Todo el tiempo yo estaba pensando en ti

Pero nada mas

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NO ME DICES NADA

Estoy mejor que nunca

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Estoy Feliz por fin!

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Tu eres el pasado y

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Dejame en paz

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Bubble Lounge, Scientology, and Crystal...first night back in SF!

Planning on meeting my friend for happy hour at the infamous swanky bubble lounge in SF to celebrate the finding of my studio apartment turned out to be quite the event. My girlfriend told me that her boss and a few co-workers may stop by, which of course was fine by me. Her boss bought a bottle of Rose Champagne for the table and a few appetizers, which was more than a treat! However, 3 hours later, 5 more people, 6 bottles of Crystal and a bill of more than $4,000, my friend and I were kind of slap happy...... Ironically enough, across from the bubble lounge lies a Scientology Institution, needless to say my friends were not warm-welcomed into the building despite the chocolate covered strawberries they offered to the employees. All in all, first night back in the city was a complete success and can't wait more!

San Francisco de Nuevo

Soooo.....after my six month stint in Chile and month long travel session, I guess it is time to return to my beloved SF and begin working for real! Starting March first, I will begin working for Paramount Export Company as a Sales assistant for the South American Market working with table grapes and apples. However, I am not worried about finding material to write about, because SF always gives me new and exciting literary ideas:)) So stay tuned for new adventures in the same city .......

Foz de Iguazu, Argentina

Las Cataratas de Iguazu are quite the spectacle. The thrill of the falls is like the feeling you get right before you are going to go down a roller coaster, partly nervous and partly excited for the drop! It definitely puts your tiny life into perspective, as the power of the water and overall size of the falls are ridiculously gigantic. However, once you get to La Garganta del diablo (the devils' throat.) that is when you really start to feel impressed. It will make you dizzy if you stare at it to long, but it is hard to take your eyes off it, and you almost feel like a bee attracted to its' honey. Although, I did not get to the Brazilian side, the Argentine side was more than sufficient to realize what a natural phenomenon la Foz de Iguazu is.

Paraguay

Price: $65.00 US dollars to obtain Paraguayan Visa (not in local guarani currency)

Price: $40.00 US dollar fine because the bastard didn´t stamp my passport (again not in local currency) Priceless: Riding on the back of paraguayan moto with a sweaty paraguayan while be eatin by mosquitos just in order to change my gurani pesos into american dollars to pay my paraguayan fine...MASTERCARD, accepted no where in PARAGUAY......How I am going to miss traveling, it seems that all the things that you truly hate while traveling are the things that you sincerely miss afterwards, oh the irony of being young and poor and unemployed!!!

Buenos Aires

Love at first sight......Tango in the streets, great food, party till dawn, free museums, what is not too love. The people are stunning and the city is always buzzing, and the best part is that you get all that european feel and romance for half the price. Normally I am not a big shopper, but I am a sucker for a bargain and that is exactly what Buenos Aires is, a bargain for the value. Yes, I am not the first nor the last to say that it is a magical city and would love to live there if I could, jejejeje. Museo de Bells Artes en BA puts the one in Santiago to shame, and the amount of cafes and pizzierias give you the Italian affect plus the argtine castellano has a similiar rythmn to italian. Then you walk down the cobble stoned streets and past apartment buildings and I feel like I am in Madrid all over again. France has also kissed BA with various structures and influences, overall it is a great mix of europe meets latin america.
On another note, FYI to obtain a paraguayan passport in Argentina you cannot pay with credit card nor argentinian pesos nor the garani (local currency) you must pay in cash with US dollars. Just a friendly tip, it was quite strange to have to go to a money exchange and change my argintine pesos to US dollars, not to mention that my bank charges me a foreign exchange fee to extract foreign currency only to change it back to US dollars!

Torres de Paine...Ushuaia

What an adventure, hiking in the infamous Torres de Paine National park is one of the most wonderfully scary and mysterious experiences that I have had travelling. As you arrive in Puerto Natales, the gateway for all the travelors to the park, you start to feel that you have left Chile and arrived in the land of european and american travelors. For some reason it is quite hard to get information about the park ahead of time and therefore you have your hardcore hikers, inexperienced yuppies, and the average adventurist all trying to scramble around and get ready for what is quite possibly the most unpredictable weather in Patagonia. Torres de Paine creates a culture and atmosphere all its own, and it is quite remarkable the kinds of people you meet, for it is quite distinct that just your average travel gossip in the typical hostels. The range being a group of 20 +65 germans taking over the comfortable refugios in the park, to the most common travelor trekking the W route, to the extreme hiker living off of practically nothing and hiking the entire circuit of 12 to 14 days. Yet, almost everyone has an entirely different experience that is all dependent on your luck with mother nature and when she is scorned, beware. Luckily after my first day of horrid rain and waste deep river crossings, the next two days were gorgeous, sunny and clear, she tried to scare me off but it didn´t work!! Yet, after 3 days of hiking and camping and carrying my life on my back I was glad to get out of the park and return to real travel culture, HOSTELS!!

The 10 hour bus ride and crossing of the magellane strait, good have been worse if I hadn´t been sooo exhausted from Los Torres, but Ushuaia is well worth it. I always forget how much cheaper argentina is, and am amazed my the Italian influence and the great quality of food! Of course the argentins all make fun of my chilean accent and insist that Argentina is better, and I have to admit for a young person traveling, I whole heartedly agree. After visiting the glacier and national park with stunning views and navigating through the beagle channel with beagle beer, I am ready to get back to the warm country......Buenos Aires here I come!