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25Jun/083

Thank You

I have just arrived back in Spain after 5 months on the road, and what a ride it has been; certain people have followed by trip the entire way on my blog, and I must say that I thoroughly enjoyed writing it.

It's very early to have a certain view on the trip in retrospect, I'm still bewildered from being back, but it's a trip that has changed my life, and my view upon life, but then, all great changes in your life do exactly that.
Certain people on the trip have made a bigger impact than others, of the most important I can mention: Mike Gasson, Jimmy, Dave, Sarah, Carl, Miguel, Anne Dorte, Stephen, James, Johno, Karin, Flavio, Julian, Magte, Tono, Antonio, Heather, Lisa, Moni, Bob and the star of the show... Gilbert.

I have also had a lot of help from the homefront: Hanne (mother), Jesper (father), Anne Sophie (sister), Bo (stepfather) and Anette (friend). Especially without the help of these individuals, the trip never would have been or it would have failed while I was underway.

With a disregard to all that I have just written, I would like to extend a thank you, to everyone on this list:

Family, friends and everyone who has been reading the blog!

Uruguay: Those 5 Danes

Colonia Del Sacramento: The Brit and the Aussie

Puerto Madryn: Sarah and Kyle

Rio Gallegos: Timo, Jonah and Fred

Ushuaia: Andreas, Uri, Layden and the 4 Israeli girls

Punta Arenas: Carl, Tamar, Adina, Keenan, Irish couple, Jack, Roman, Mike and the two Aussie's in their 50's.

Puerto Natales: Bill, Kat, Bo, the guy from Punta Arenas, Monty (the cat), Britney, Jenny, German girl, Vicky and Sophia

Torres Del Paine: Urs, John, John, Susan, Katy, Rafael, Natasha, Albert, Nick, Whitney and the two Irish guys.

Calafate: Edward

Chalten: Mike

Futaleufú: Eyal, Rachel, Dave and Eddie

El Bolsón: Lucia

Bariloche: Patrick, Reut, the Israeli twins and Jimmy

Bariloche -> Valdivia: Lindsay

Pucón: Everyone at hostel Etnico, everyone who went up the volcano with me (in particular Yong)

Santiago: The staff at La Chimba hostel and Mike (of El Chalten fame)

Rapa Nui (Easter Island): Miguel, Chen, Kieran, Melissa, Larry, Jimmy (From Bariloche),John, Emma, Brian, John (Montana), Alejandra

Buenos Aires: Eddie (of Futaleufú fame), Anne Dorte, Jon, Karen, Elena, Jane, Becky, Eric, Madoka, James, Steve, Stefan, Darren, Deborah, Chris

Puerto Iguazu: Two German girls, Canadian girl and the two Danish girls

Ciudad Del Este: Dan and Rommi

Santa Cruz -> La Paz: Lorgio

La Paz: Patrick (from Bariloche) and Danny

La Paz -> Cuzco: Florian

Cuzco: Steve and James (from Buenos Aires), Karin, Anna, Heather, Ley, the 3 Norwegian girls, Ingrid, Johno, Maria, Charlotte, Mike Gasson (from El Chalten and Santiago) and the Kiwi girl.

Inca Trail: Flavio, Julian, the porters and the cook, Rob and Dee Ann

La Paz: Nadja, Yasmin, Heather, Uval, Maud, Jonathan, Ivan and Macro

Potosi: Cameron, Monica, Allan, William, Anaïs, Angela and Aaron

Uyuni: Angela (from Potosi), Declan and Judy

Sucre: Andrew, Tamsyn and Trevor

La Paz: Jimmy

Pampas: Jimmuy, Laia and Tono

Jungle: Jimmy, Antonio and Jesus

La Paz: Jimmy, Heather, Roly and Anita

Copacabana: Jimmy

Habana: Lisa, Amasa and Lily

Santiago de Cuba: Lisa (from above)

Comandancia La Plata: Moni

VIlla Santa Domingo -> Camaguey: Shane and Steve

Cuba: All the family's I stayed with, ate with and talked with; you showed me the best side of Cuba.

Washington, D.C.: Hiro, Carlos, Rachel & Eyal (from Futaleufu and Bariloche), Bill Colburn, Jackie, Rick and Rav Shmuel.

New York: Tony, Anne Sophie (my sister), Peter & and his son Tony as well as

Chicago: Bob, Amanda and the people on the Wicker park tour

Boston: Amelia

I'm just gonna leave you with a feeling of my trip, I know with this massive list of people above, it doesn't feel right, and I'm not saying it gives a sense of my entire trip, but you will also notice that few people are mentioned more than once (it won't work if you are reading this in an email, you have to go to the website):



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So before I leave you... Beyond the sky and the earth, thank you.

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  • http://stage-ecuador.blogspot.com Ben Lommelen

    Hi Jens!

    Could you send me an e-mail, please? I seem to have lost your adress somehow.
    ben.lommelen -at- student.kuleuven.be
    There is a slight chance that I will be studying in Kopenhagen for about four or five months, and maybe you could help me out with some practical questions.
    Anyway, we should get into contact again, I would love to hear some more of your stories about South-America. I recently spent seven months in Ecuador.

    Hope to hear from you soon!

    Ben

  • Anonymous

    Hey Jens,
     
    I’ve really enjoyed reading your blog after I came across it while searching for information on my own south american trip which begins this month. I really want to ask your advice on what you feel were the highlights of Patagonia, I have the unfortunate circumstances of being able to alocate just a measly 3 weeks (which I thought was going to be enough, but after reading your blog I am definitely disappointed I don’t have more time to explore). I am starting patagonia in Ushuaia and then I plan to go up to either Calafate or Chaltan, depending on how I can fit Chaltan in. So If you have any advice for a fellow traveller I would be only to happy to hear how you think you might spend 3 weeks for Patagonia. Your blog is great by the way! I read it a few weeks ago now and it has given me a lot of inspiration for places I want to go in my trip, so thank you! And like you I am going to keep a blog of all of my travels at http://www.churrito.net

    My name is Sam Bourke and I am from Melbourne, Australia (I noticed you said you spent three weeks in Aus and you felt like it was a like trip, may I ask where did you go? I find a lot of travellers I have met in the states and China that have been to Australia really only visit the east coast, but to be honest if you really want to see Australia’s most brilliant sites you would do a trek from Uluru up to Darwin as there is so much to see there).
    Thank you very much for any help you can give me, I’ll take whatever I can get really!

    Cheers,
    Sam

  • Anonymous

    Hello Sam
    I’m glad you liked it, flatter always works :). I’m sorry I’ve taken so long to get back to you, but I’m here now. The highlights? Well, it’s been a long while now, but Ushuaia and Bariloche stills stand out, the first because of the nature and the remote feeling, the latter because of the beautiful lakes and wonderful icecream (Jauja, you really must try it). El Bolson is really cool too, beautiful nature to explore, river rafting, more great ice cream and cool artisan fair :). But just go with it, stay at hostels and find people to travel around with, that always leads to the best experiences.

    I arrived in Sydney, travelled west to Port Augusta through the Blue Mountains, up north to Threeways, back out east to Mackay and down the east coast. Stopping at pretty much anywhere even remotely interesting on the way :). 11000 km in 3 weeks, it was tough but wonderful. It was originally the plan to go all the way up to Darwin, but we ran out of time (family trip).

    Safe travels,
    Vilhelm

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