Seahorse in South America

my brother is taking over. i have lived off a diet off gummy bears and beef jerky for the last t days now. im wondering if this perfect balance of complex sugar and protein will make me skinny or fat? id like to take a poll.

we got our visas sorted for Brazil today and I’m pretty damn proud of myself. all my cards will be here tomorrow. i am almost a person. i cant believe it.

spent all day with some cats at a cemetery. meow meow.

We keep running into the same street dog. he even pops up in locked buildings while I’m trying to get cash out of the ATM. starting to think he is following us.

I feel like i live in Buenos Aries and I’m working for the weekend. All i do is run errands to get me identity back and then drink at night because I’m happy the day is over. I wish I cold just run errands all day and never get a job. in that way in so good at getting shit done as long as I don’t think of it as work im happy.

other things that make me happy……I’m happy to be blogging again. I took a break for the cruise for expensive internet and nothing to report except for what i ate that day.

mark my words no six year steal from me. I hope I don’t eat those words. hackers get younger every year.

on another note alanis rules. i forgot about one hand in my pocket and I’m sorry but its doing me right. right this second.

just found a cheap hostel in Rio. its such a good find this shit is so expensive this time of year. karma is coming back my way. carnival here we come.

Let me start by saying i love my life once again. i left Mendoza bounds for Bueans Aries on Thursday night and i had yet another amazing experience on a night bus.

i was trying to open the bathroom door on the bus which is always somewhat of a project and the CO driver of the bus offered to help me. After a scary peeing in a moving bus situation i came out and the co driver offered to let me sit up front with them and have tea. its called matti made most popular in Uruguay and there is a whole ritual involved. with loose leaf tea and a metal straw and i couldn’t think of a better time to try it.  The whole thing was really amazing. they even offered to let me drive the bus. but i though i shouldn’t in-danger 100 people on a double decker bus. all and all a good decision.

So i got to Buenos Aries feeling quite proud of myself. and when i say it finally happened I’m not talking about the matti. it was finally time for me to pay my dues to the travel gods. after all the amazing places Ive been lucky enough to go it was finally my time to be robbed of everything. by some kid in an Internet kiosk. and when i say everything i mean it. My passport, all my cards, all my cash, except for 12 pesos, my 3rd ipod Ive had the pleasure of owning in my life (went big and went for the ipod touch), both of my cameras, my new digital and my vintage 35 mm Minolta (given to me by a good friend 8 years ago, which i alot feel like i lost on this trip), my only pair of long pants, and a journal given to me by one of the first people i ever loved that i have taken everywhere with me since, and my feeling that I’m invinvcible. somethings will come back with time. some i will never see again.

I hope that little kid aleast got laid or at least got to eat meat for dinner. because i bet his boss was pretty stoked when he saw the awesome loot i had in that bag. it was almost to heavy for me to carry. i wonder what kidda tunes that little kid is listening to now in my ipod.

I am still so very lucky despite my misfortunes. I have a good friend here in Buenos Aries who was willing to take me in once he found out what had happened. I took my last 12 pesos and got in a cab to his house. i explained to the driver this was all the money i had in the world and he said in broken in English he would take me even though i didn’t have enough money for the fair. I don’t think he realized once i got there just how bad off i was. i felt so naked without my day bag. i spent so much time looking after my stuff only to get lazy the last month of my trip. i guess i think of Buenos Aries as a second home and i just got lazy.

So without a Penny to my name this barley knows me is letting me crash at his place and keep me fed. i had to wait the whole weekend to the embassy to open. i was the second person in line this morning. i had my picture taken by a guys across the street in the park. who had a white backdrop hanging from a tree. 20 pesos later I’m on my way. I was short 26 pesos from getting my passport when it came time to pay. i started to panic but i just sucked it up turned around and asked this mother daughter duo i had been chatting with if they could let me have 26 pesos. it was a tough thing to do but i got my passport in about an hour in the end. i look like greasy little muffin in the picture as apse to my awesome 80s bleach blonde look in my 2004 passport. that fucker was almost full.

So the rest of today ive spent walking miles to the Brazilian embassy and the American Express to get a credit card. but all that walking not a penny to my name to take the subway or a bus and the result is. i know ill get my Brazilian visa just in time to leave Sunday and i have a credit card to eat with. not that anyone takes American Express but i will make it work. all my cards should be here Thursday and my little brother arrives tomorrow afternoon with a care package of money, makeup and moral support. so things are looking up this time tomorrow i should be eating steak and drinking wine again.

Ive got my feeling that I’m invinvcible back. it feels good.

The best part is two night ago i was going through my bag looking for my scissors in order to give this 19 year old a mullet for his birthday and i found my bag with almost all of my memory cards. so i didn’t lose all my pictures.  between that and the film i sent on with my various mules not all is lost.

and i saw a baby pigeon yesterday! how many people can say that?

some people come down from the highest mountains in the northern hemisphere to find themselves here, sun-burnt and sore in the wine country dessert city nestled in the base of Aconcagua mountain. pretty extreme.

i came by bus and have had lovely naps and stars in my eyes ever since i arrived. i discovered ice cream and that children don’t sleep in Mendoza. its been lovely wine and good food with good people all the way. it must all come to an end though after five long days of rest I’m heading back to Buenos Aries this evening. The universe loves me so very much that is gave we this wonderful planet to wander and this keyboard that sticks. so ill make this short.

I’m taking tango lesson when i get to Buenos Aries. I’m going to be a meat eating, Spanish speaking, Tango dancing, babe. mothers lock up your sons. I cant wait to be back in the big city again.  And brother gets here in 5 days so then the real party can begin. Brazil here we come……if they let us in. we still need visas.but i have a feeling that lady luck is one my side…

i hope you kittens are keeping warm.