miércoles, septiembre 30, 2009

The RTW


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Yes, here comes my map!! After the three shots of vaccines and trying to get my blood back to my head I can say I'm almost ready to go. I've been spending my time recording the trip in Google Earth, but that one I cannot link to this web... try it yourself, I've been (virtually) flying over the Lord of the Rings mountains in New Zealand and between buildings in Singapore and my next goal is to fly under the water (swim I guess). The point is that as some travelers say, the trips should be enjoyed at least three times, planning, going and remembering it.
We've been looking that we are not only going around east-west but also quite north and south (of course we may regret this in the plane but for now looks cool). So you have to read the map starting from the right because we are going towards the west, and the only way I could represent it starting from the left would be putting the Earth upside down (which is good for me because I come from Argentina but I cannot do it in Google Maps, only in Google Earth!). Sorry for the long phrases but it is because I have a Spanish natural prose and I just can't stop the writing!
Otherwise preparatives are running smoothly, just worried about some medicine we are going to take that causes depression and nightmares (and we were running away of the dark winter because of that!). Then thinking in booking some places to stay, taking into account three parameters: location (preferably no more than 100 kms from where we want to go), within the budget and that you don't get your backpack stolen (being the probability of this last parameter directly proportional to the distance to the hostel and inversely proportional to the budget). Learning Chinese will have to wait... can't be so hard, the small symbols, the 80,000 of them, but you can get around with a few thousands if you also learn how to pronounce them.