Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Leaving Europe

The cycle is completed. I'm back in Madrid, this time to catch my flight back home.

It really feels like the end of a cycle. Six months have passed, but now I'm already in the mood I was when I left.

My laptop battery is running out and don't have where to recharge, so I will hopefully write more about this when I get back home. But before my laptop dies, I just want to point out something. I was received at the hostel, where I'm staying for this last night in Europe, by a Paraguayan; and my room has a typical Venezuelan souvenir/decoration on the wall (which you can see on my flickr gallery). If signs could talk, they would be redundant.

Saturday, December 8, 2007

Six Months and Time to Come Back

It's been six months since I started this journey, and it's time to come back. A few days ago I decided it's enough for now. Moving so much, for so long, can be very tiring; but the worst is that the trip looses it whole purpose if the motivation is lost.

It was not an easy decision at all. A few people I wasn't able to visit yet, and an incredible opportunity I'm missing: going to Aakash's wedding and travel with good friends in India. It kept me going for a while, but it got to a point when I couldn't deny myself anymore that I have to stop.

My thoughts are already back in Venezuela since a few weeks ago. Time to come back.

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Back

It's been almost 4 months since the last time I posted anything in this blog. At the beginning I didn't post simply because I didn't have the time and access to internet. Then, after some time, I started to realize that it was just not possible for me to write what I wanted, or as I wanted. I did try and wrote several posts that I never finished. Once I revised them a few days later to publish, I had a completely different perspective on what I wanted to tell and had to start again. This is what happens when you find yourself each few days in a different city, with different people, living different lives. The only constant is change.

I realized I need some stability to write. Some time to think about what the hell is going on. I just can't sit in an internet cafe and vomit what's in my mind. If I can't understand it, other people surely won't either. This would be so much easier if I just liked to write straight-forward chronicles.

The burden of telling my accumulated experiences and thoughts grown over time, along with my accumulated experiences and thoughts, and became a monster. A huge monster that feeds on untold stories and undocumented experiences.

The only way I can find to stop this cycle, to stop feeding the animal, is to just write something, anything, as I'm doing right now; and later I'll find the way to fill the huge gap. Or not.

I already divided the different stages of my trip and uploaded some photos to illustrate what's yet to be written. At least it's a start.

Living in Berlin?

(Picture soon?)

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