I have a few pending posts to write about Sweden, England, Mexico, Mallorca… but will leave them for now to focus in South America where I am currently travelling.
And I will start by translating something I wrote in Spanish for a contest to win a trip do SA (original with pics). I missed the price just for a few votes (got 112 and the winner over 1000). My presentation was clearly the best but most voters are stupid and I didn’t have the media support, you know how the so called “democracy” works. Well, I am in SA anyway. So here the crap I wrote:
It seems that there are more people in this contest than in the job center line in Spain, but, if Rajoy won an election and Arbeloa a World Cup, I stand a chance. It is about time that South Americans can enjoy my awesomeness as others did in many places. I do not like to brag, but I was in more than 60 countries and can play the triangle. Among my experiences: living with remote tribes in Mentawai and Sulawesi (Indonesia), drinking vodka for breakfast with Kyrgyz nomads, cycling in the Karakoram highway, Nordkapp, eating tortilla in Betanzos, 3 weeks trekking in the mountains of Nepal, hitchhiking the Pamir Highway, remote Burma, Laos, Iran, Oman, Tajikistan and more … I have a blog year compiling stories from one year in Asia, which used to have about 100 readers per day (10 from friends and 90 from bots I created to feel appreciated). This is the most liked post on FB.
Not yet sure you will vote for me? Here you have the list of things I want to achieve there:
- Party at Rio Carnival and get as many STDs as I can
- Visit Machu Pichu and Uyuni without taking a single picture
- Strengthen the commercial exchanges between Colombia and my native Galicia
- Open a phone call center in Ecuador
- Ride the Panamericana on a bicycle and the Austral Road on a donkey
- Climbing Aconcagua
- Buy toilette paper in Venezuela
- Many volunteering projects, permaculture, sustainability, wwoofing and all that shit
- Live along Guyana tribes
- Steal an Argentinian guy’s girlfriend
- Wear Evo’s jumper
- Find Paulo Coelho. Kill him. “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
- Record the “cerveza” tune with Wendy Sulca
- Spit on llamas
- Film an Argentinian movie without Ricardo Darin
- Go for a ride on Mujica’s Beatle
- Hitchhike to Antartica
- Invite Kevin Roldan to my bday party
- Kill hippies in El Bolson
- Spend most of the prize money on booze, drugs and… squander the rest
