[tcb] Re: Mi Hilo, Alexander - no bus content
- From: Katrina Martin <k.d.martin@xxxxxx>
- To: "tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:47:55 -0600
Wow he wrote the "I've Been Everywhere" song...literally
Katrina
Sent from my iPad
On Dec 22, 2011, at 6:49 AM, Ronnie Hughes <fracdogii@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> No VW buses anyway.
>
> A few of you know that my son, Alex, has been on a world tour this year.
>
> We dropped him off at IAH on March 23 and he's been traveling since. First
> was off to France and Spain to hike the Saint James Way (1,500 km in 90
> days), work on an organic farm in Spain and end up at a 10 day reggae
> festival in Benicàssim, Spain.
>
> After that he flew to Buenos Aires, Argentina jumped on a BUS for a 30 hour
> ride to Barriloca, Arg in an area known as Patagonia, where a lot of the old
> hippes went chill when they left California. He worked on a few different
> organic farms and spent the weekends at the market selling vegetables and
> partaking of the local music, crafts, herbs and home brews. There are a lot
> of hikers and hostels for $8 to $12/night and many trails to hike in the
> area. He's met people from all over the world and will spend a few days
> hiking or hanging out with them before going back to work for a couple of
> weeks. On the farms very few spoke English so his rough Spanish skills are
> being tested big time. Nothing like total emersion to learn a new language.
>
> After a couple of months there, he now is on the move through Chile and now
> is in La Paz, Bovila where many of the people he has met in SA are meeting up
> at Lake Titicaca for the winter solstice (or is it the summer solstice down
> there), Christmas and New Years celebrations. He and a girl he met in
> Santiago, Chile hitch hiked and rode buses (think of Romancing the Stone bus
> rides not the old gray dog) for about two weeks traveling the 3,000 km north
> to La Paz.
>
> He has a couple of months left to explore Boliva and Peru, then back to the
> States in March.
>
> He's had a few hassles, but suprisingly very few considering he is a gingo
> con barba grande (white dude with a big beard).
>
> I wish I could be there with him for the adventure, but I'll pass on the
> daily hiking, living out of a backpack and smelling like a farm animal for 12
> months. Pictures will do fine. He is writing a journal and taking photos
> and I hope he writes it all down some day. We keep up with him through FB
> and emails when he stops at a cybercafe.
>
> Enjoy the links.
>
> Ronnie
>
> http://www.caminosantiagodecompostela.com/
>
> http://www.rototomsunsplash.com/en/news/sunsplash/2279-rototom-2011-a-benicassim
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Carlos_de_Bariloche
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Paz
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