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thoughts
I was watching the Saturday Night Live skit yesterday with Will Farrel and Tina Fey, and i was rather struck by the difference in the type of satire evident in the two portrayals. Will Farrel's bush is almost apolitical, its a caricature, produced by over exaggerating the personal tendencies of our beloved (almost non-existent these days) current ( Read more... ) -
Pirate watch
Apparently, pirating aint all fun and games, there's a bit of orginization involved. and now, the most important question of the day, do i download chrome and kick the fox to the curb, or does my google life have limits? Them boys at google have a checkered history, maintaining some comitment right action, but privacy concerns tend to really ( Read more... ) -
last day in Ecuador.
Yesterday August ran into some North Americans in an internet cafe, who apparently told him the breadth of thefts and muggings thier group has gone through here. Ive never really been afraid in South America, not of the people anyway, but this town, Quito, is chock full of tourists, and the constant warnings about being careful and not going to ( Read more... ) -
Whales, Boobies, Mojitos on the beach in hammocks.
After completing the mountain, we split into two groups. August and Forrest attempted the second tallest mountain in Ecuador, Cotopaxi, while Mudge, Sarah, Orion and myself went west to a town called Salinas, and then north to a resort-esque town called Puerto Lopez (unfourtunately i did not get to post from Puerto Lopez.) The coast of Ecuador ( Read more... ) -
Success!
We climbed the mountain on the first night in the refugia, which was problematic as that entailed around 10,300ft of elevation gain in a day. High altitude sickness sets in after around ten thousand feet in a day, so we were all really sucking air for the top 1000ft of the climb. its hard to overstate how much the altitude caused us pain. I could ( Read more... ) -
about to head up the mountain
Chimborazo is big, big in the way that volcanoes are big, which is to say that the earth was forced out of the path of a terrible, smoky hot monster thousands of years ago, laying waste to all around it. The principle aspect of volcanoes, as opposed to the mountains in Colorado,
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first week, or so...
Given the fact that i found out that i was going to Ecuador about 48 hours before i left, things have gone surprisingly complication free. I had two airlines to get to Quito, the first was an economy line that took me to Atlanta, and stuck me there for an extara hour, and the second was a south American company that was full of, well, south ( Read more... ) -
woke up after the party and....
had a ticket to Ecuador, c/o my friends. woot. looks like ill have some new posts here pretty soon. I'm a little daunted by the size of the climb and the fact that i have done zero planning for it, but im not really worried about it. sounds like i wont be able to get very deep into the culture of things down there, this being largely a climbing ( Read more... ) -
snowy monday
i was trying to find a reason why there has been so much cold weather around these parts recently, and viola. -
my god man
Ive been really bored lately. i came to this conclusion when i realized that i was excited about having gotten a job. a job where ill be wearing crocs. im gonna say that again; crocs.actually it should be pretty doable. i met and liked the owner and the woman whom i'm assuming is going to be the foh (front of house if you've never worked in a ( Read more... )
