If a taxi driver asks you if you've been there before, say yes
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The Lakers

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Land of tourism

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There's something wrong here

Leg problem
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Beautiful Puerto Rico

I'm running out of reasons to ever go back to Spain

Tapas

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Lessons learned about packing

Glue sticks

More contact lenses
Better flashlight
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I am the master

Spanish help taxi Cartagena
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Hatin' the USA is cool

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Santa Marta is beautiful
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Traveling with people you don't mesh well with is a learning experience
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Santana

Anthea
Plastic playing cards
Rain
Asking for directions
Cheap water
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Playa Blanca

Swimming
Sunsets
Ice cream
Fish, chicken, rice
Snorkeling
Octopus
Ray
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Inca Jungle trek

Bicycles
Hiking
Monkey
Waterfall from a cave
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Taxi to Tacna

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San Pedro de Atacama and Arica

Desert
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Panamerican Highway

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Nicole is everywhere

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Picking at your teeth with your fingers = nasty

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Salar trip

Cementerio de tren
Floating land
Hexagons
Funny perspective pictures
Salt hotel
Drinking games
Orange sunrise
Lagunas
Stone tree
Red water
Flamingos
Freezing cold
Hot springs
Swimming
Pancakes
Money for sleeping bag
Border crossing
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Mine tour

No teeth
Dynamite
Molars
Ripoff
No lamp
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La Paz

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Isla del Sol, Lake Titicaca

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Copacabana

I found the "real" copacabana in Bolivia :)
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Uros and Tequile

Flotante
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Coca

Coca cola used to have small traces of Cocaine in it. Did you know that? I found out at a cocaine museum in Bolivia.
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Cuy

I had groundhog while in Bolivia. A specialty there. Named cuy in Spanish.
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Can't get no head

I found while in the mountains of Bolivia that no matter how you pour beer from a bottle into a glass, no head forms on the beer. The bubbles pop immediately and it has something to do with the elevation.
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Pisco Sour

Best alcoholic drink I found while traveling South America. Tastes like a sweet and sour vodka but the liquor in it (pisco) costs 5 times less than vodka.
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Everything I do is done for the eventual acceptance of my parents

Blog post from 4/2/09 but never posted:

I woke up with this thought.

It is my limiter.

It keeps me on the straight path, but also a narrow path.

Only when I am physically away from them do I sway from their approval, but only so far so that it is undetected due to the physical separation. Nothing directly or intended to be permanent.

I don't know whether I want to break this limiter or not.

Do I want to completely break the limit to test it? No I don't right now.

Not breaking the limiter makes me happy and it has kept me safely on the straight and narrow path, and I'm not sure if breaking the limiter will make me happier.

So I have to figure out if it's worth breaking using baby steps.

I could judge this on a case by case basis if I could identify something outside the limit that is something I want but they don't.

How do I figure out where my desire and their desire are not congruent? It is not a clear distinction in some cases.

How important is their happiness to me? How important is my happiness to them?
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Chile the island

I found that Chile is sort of an island compared to the rest of South America due to the mountains and deserts that surround it.

There is a slight language difference there. The people also talk very very fast in general, almost like speedy Spanish.