musings

cameron (i learned his name) and i are leaving for quillabamba this evening, and i´ve got nothing but time between now and then. shit, except for i was supposed to buy our tickets. shit. i guess i can do that when i´m done with this. anyway.

i was feeling mildly guilty about the occasional wish that i wasn´t travelling alone, but last night i had dinner with friends all of whom are alone and real travellers and they were feeling the same way. it was funny now that i think about it we all thought it would be nice not to be lonely but then everybody had horror stories about travelling with incompatible people. and i wouldn´t have met them if i wasn´t alone, and i do like aimless wandering with no one to answer to. i love it, actually. so we concluded that the ideal travel partner would be someone who would be independent and you could part ways and rejoin when you want to do different things.

another thing i´ve been thinking. it´s so nice to be doing something i´m good at. my brain is so much more built to be out in the tangible world than behind a desk. all my scrappiness, insanity, openness, obsessive thinking ahead... all these things are actually useful skills intead of funny little qualities for a month. i love it. even french is useful here.

i´m putting some pictures up on flickr. you can follow the link on the right of this blog. have you ever seen a toddler having his shoes shined before?