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April 19, 2005
Caracas, Venezuela (last international post)
so i made a mad run from Paramaribo to here. 3 solid days traveling, and i fell off the bus yesterday morning into crummy Caracas. i hopped on the interweb and started checking flights, and the best thing i could come up with was leave today, tuesday, to miami, find some place to crash in miami, and then head from ft. lauderdale to nyc tomorrow in the afternoon. so just like that, my trip here in south america rumbles to a close. this always seems to happen, that the end of a trip springs up on me, and i'm left to reflect back on it. last time in panama city i headed home cause i was dead broke, this time cause i'm ready to do some excellent different things back in the states. looking
back on everything i've done, i must say that the highlites were doing so much cool stuff with buzz and kristy, including the jungle trip, one of the coolest things i've ever done, and getting to hang out with my father down here. i always keep a written journal when i travel, and this time i've been very devoted to it, but haven't reread a single entry. i'm saving that for one of the flights back towards home, i'll sit in the cramped airline seat, looking out the window at the clouds between reading entries about all my good times. i'm looking forward to that a lot. so on one terribly annoying note, i made it through my entire trip without being robbed, only to have the Caracas police shake me down this morning for 30,000 bolivares. they made up some lie about me having to have a license to carry a pocket knife around (meanwhile people are walking around with revolvers all over the place i'm sure), and since i was flying out this afternoon, i didn't have time to go to the embassy and fight the lame injustice of it all. the police seem to gravitate towards the hostel i was staying at, on average they rob about 3 tourists a week. so fucking lame. i'm trying not to let that cloud my judgement about venezuela, but it's hard. of all the countries i've been through, i can say that Colombia is the only one i'm certain i will visit again. this country has a lot of amazing things happening here, but for some reason i just don't find the people that friendly or interesting. maybe i'll give it another try sometime.
next entry will be from NYC, i will be hanging out with my aunt, uncle and cousins tomorrow night. weird.
Posted by drewish at April 19, 2005 09:13 AM
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