So the time is coming quickly, it has been almost two years since I moved to Florida and I have only nine more days left of my job! I've been counting down since month 22. Then I will begin a new adventure taking a road trip around the states and Canada!
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Saturday, June 27, 2009
Saturday, June 13, 2009
SummerDo
Since high school I've rarely had my hair cut. Yesterday I decided to get a trim (it had been a year) and when I got to the hair place I saw a Marie Claire magazine and decided that is what I wanted. The hair stylist asked if I wanted to donate to Locks of Love, I said if my hair was long enough, of course! This is a before picture, the picture of the style I wanted and an after picture. I think this is why I don't get my hair cut very often, I even had the magazine in my hands, laid it on the hairdressers counter, showed it to her, told her that is what I wanted. She said she wanted to finish cutting my hair dry so she could see how it would "naturally" fall so she pulls out a blow dryer, I tell her I don't own a blow dryer or brush so it will never be blown dry or brushed hence it will never "naturally" lay the way she was about to style it. She laughed "oh haha you don't own a blow dryer, hehehe your so cute, my boyfriend would love you hahaha he says I spend too much time on my hair". Maybe she should spend more time listening to her customers.... I don't really mind, I think in about 2 months it will be exactly what I wanted, hair grows. Its not the end of the world, but seriously, this lady needs to listen.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Full Moon Rising
Experiencing the full moon by the water is very powerful, whether it is by a mountain river, the salty ocean, wondrous sea, country stream, or inland lake. You get the reflection off the water and the light just surrounds and energizes you. Also, I think creatures that you wouldn't normally see come out at that time. There is also the pull on the water that the moon has, creating intensified tides that get our blood flowing and affect our whole body seeing how are bodies are more than half made of water. Get yourself to the water! Everybody needs to spend some time by a body of water to re-energize and if it happens to be at the full moon even more magnificent.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Couch Surfing
So I have joined this network of Couch Surfers and have been hosting 1-4 people a month since I began. This concept is such a wonderful idea. A lot of my friends think I'm crazy inviting people into my home, to sleep on my couch or spare room with out knowing them and vice versa them staying with someone they don't know. If people are going to join and offer their home and trust I don't think they will take advantage of others. My first experience with any such thing was a couple I had met on the beach where I live. They came down for the winter and were living in the woods, one night I invited them to stay with me because the weather was bad, they stayed two nights that time and a few more times that winter before they headed back north. Now I have two wonderful new friends who I am going to visit this summer. Then in late December I joined this network of couch surfers and have been hosting travelers from Portugal, New York, Vermont, Florida, Sweden and hopefully more to come! Eventually, when I can take off work I will be utilizing the website. It is a great feeling to know there are welcoming, kind and gracious beings out there that will invite you into their home and give you a place to rest your head. Thank you!
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Peruvian Driving
Just a little warning if you ever visit Puno.
Instead of stop signs or stoplights drivers honk when approaching a four way intersection. I´m not sure how they decide who has the right of way if multiple cars approach from different directions. I guess who ever honks first gets to go through first? Also, just ignore those one way signs, if you need to turn right but there is a one way sign pointing left, just turn left then back up the street to where you need to get to.
Instead of stop signs or stoplights drivers honk when approaching a four way intersection. I´m not sure how they decide who has the right of way if multiple cars approach from different directions. I guess who ever honks first gets to go through first? Also, just ignore those one way signs, if you need to turn right but there is a one way sign pointing left, just turn left then back up the street to where you need to get to.
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
¡PERÚ!
I have not updated in a while, but I am currently in Peru!! So I will start from the beginning.
JUNE 28TH
I took a red eye from Miami and arrived in Lima at 615 in the morning. I was greeted by a driver who took me by the beach, which is very different than the beaches of Florida, it was a nice change of scenery. Luckily I was able to check into the hotel early and take a nap before my friends arrived. Kat, whom I hadn´t seen in over a year, and her boyfriend Greg got in around 1230, they had taken a bus from Puno City and were on the last leg of their three month stay in South America. It was great catching up with an old friend in an unexpected place. We were taken out to lunch by Silvia, who my sister is working with in Lima, afterwards she took us to the markets of Lima. Later that evening we went to Barranco and ended up at a bar where there was a Peruvian band playing Led Zepplin covers, of all the places we could choose to go.
JUNE 29TH
My sister arrived at midnight and then we had to catch a ride to the airport at 430 to fly to Juliaca. We got into Puno around 1000, the asst. driver of our bus from Juliaca took us to a Hostel, which I assume was run by a family member, when we told her we didn´t have a reservation. She said there was hot water which we were naive and didn´t try out before we paid. We only stayed there one night.
JUNE 30TH
None of the places have indoor heat. Which is ok, they have space heaters and layers upon layers of blankets. I of course had to buy a hat and gloves right away. Luckily the second night we had hot water.
JULY 1ST
We booked a tour to the Uros Islands, Amantaní and Taquile through Always Travel. So first we went to the Uros Islands, which is a group of floating reed islands. I will have to post pictures when I get back home.
Then we went onto Amantaní where we stayed with a family. Just a mother and father, their two children had moved away to Lima, which is becomming more common among these small islands. We had quinoa soup and vegetables for lunch and soup and pasta for dinner. We hiked as a group to one of the mounts of the island called Pachamama(mother earth), the other one is Pachatata(father earth) for the sunset. Later after dinner we had a fiesta, everyone dressed up in the traditional wear and some of the local men played instruments. Walking to and from the fiesta, I had never seen so many stars! The island is beautiful and I reccommend this tour to anyone and everyone!
JULY 2ND
We said good-bye to our host families in the morning after a breakfast of crepes and of course coca and muña tea (which was served with every meal) and continued on to the island of Taquile where they are famous for their handicrafts. The island use to be a prison like Alcatraz, except it was a political prison, not thiefs, so our tour guide says. We hiked up and across the island and then down 500 stairs back to the boat for a three hour journey (depending on who and when you asked) to Puno. We went out to dinner in Puno and tried alpaca, it was tasty, Audrey thought it tasted a little like pork, I thought it tasted like the fig sauce it was in. ¡¡Tomorrow we are off to Cusco!!
JUNE 28TH
I took a red eye from Miami and arrived in Lima at 615 in the morning. I was greeted by a driver who took me by the beach, which is very different than the beaches of Florida, it was a nice change of scenery. Luckily I was able to check into the hotel early and take a nap before my friends arrived. Kat, whom I hadn´t seen in over a year, and her boyfriend Greg got in around 1230, they had taken a bus from Puno City and were on the last leg of their three month stay in South America. It was great catching up with an old friend in an unexpected place. We were taken out to lunch by Silvia, who my sister is working with in Lima, afterwards she took us to the markets of Lima. Later that evening we went to Barranco and ended up at a bar where there was a Peruvian band playing Led Zepplin covers, of all the places we could choose to go.
JUNE 29TH
My sister arrived at midnight and then we had to catch a ride to the airport at 430 to fly to Juliaca. We got into Puno around 1000, the asst. driver of our bus from Juliaca took us to a Hostel, which I assume was run by a family member, when we told her we didn´t have a reservation. She said there was hot water which we were naive and didn´t try out before we paid. We only stayed there one night.
JUNE 30TH
None of the places have indoor heat. Which is ok, they have space heaters and layers upon layers of blankets. I of course had to buy a hat and gloves right away. Luckily the second night we had hot water.
JULY 1ST
We booked a tour to the Uros Islands, Amantaní and Taquile through Always Travel. So first we went to the Uros Islands, which is a group of floating reed islands. I will have to post pictures when I get back home.
Then we went onto Amantaní where we stayed with a family. Just a mother and father, their two children had moved away to Lima, which is becomming more common among these small islands. We had quinoa soup and vegetables for lunch and soup and pasta for dinner. We hiked as a group to one of the mounts of the island called Pachamama(mother earth), the other one is Pachatata(father earth) for the sunset. Later after dinner we had a fiesta, everyone dressed up in the traditional wear and some of the local men played instruments. Walking to and from the fiesta, I had never seen so many stars! The island is beautiful and I reccommend this tour to anyone and everyone!
JULY 2ND
We said good-bye to our host families in the morning after a breakfast of crepes and of course coca and muña tea (which was served with every meal) and continued on to the island of Taquile where they are famous for their handicrafts. The island use to be a prison like Alcatraz, except it was a political prison, not thiefs, so our tour guide says. We hiked up and across the island and then down 500 stairs back to the boat for a three hour journey (depending on who and when you asked) to Puno. We went out to dinner in Puno and tried alpaca, it was tasty, Audrey thought it tasted a little like pork, I thought it tasted like the fig sauce it was in. ¡¡Tomorrow we are off to Cusco!!
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