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Blogs (Fall 2009)

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Traveling around

Submitted by crissy gardner on Tue, 11/11/2008 - 11:22
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I think it’s fair to say that I’ve been traveling a lot. I’ve hardly had time to do the blogs with traveling somewhere new every few days and my internet being particularly shotty lately. I think that the best part about being here these last few weeks was getting to see so much of the Argentine country.
I’ve been to the end of the earth- Ushuaia the southernmost city in the world- which was very cold but very beautiful. I’ve been to the tip of Argentina in Jujuy. This province borders Bolivia and Chile. I got to take a day trip to Tigre a summer town about an hour away from Buenos Aires. I went skydiving in La Plata the capital of the Buenos Aires province.
What I’ve done and seen has only reaffirmed my belief that in general people all over the world are the same. They have the same courtesies same desires and same senses of humor. The landscape too is very similar to that of Norte America. There are forests, glaciers, deserts, salt flats, jungles and swamps. Argentina is a rich country and has many unique attributes, but the more I see of it the more I see the similarities it shares with home.

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I love your slideshow! What

Submitted by de Lutèce on Tue, 11/18/2008 - 08:33.

I love your slideshow! What amazing pictures, I'm so jealous of your adventures. Where have you been staying on these trips? And who do you normally travel with?

i just wish i had my own

Submitted by crissy gardner on Wed, 11/12/2008 - 14:54.

i just wish i had my own fancy dance...so then i could become a youtube star and travel for free!

Above all, travel.

Submitted by Sophie Maarleveld on Wed, 11/12/2008 - 13:34.

The trips you have been taking sound unbelievable. I truly believe that visiting only one city in a foreign country tells you very little about that country as a whole. My travels have been the most significant part of my time in West Africa.

It's funny that you mentioned similarities between North America and the places you've visited. Many of my peers compare the various landscapes we encounter here in Africa to others in the US. I wonder, do we look for these similarities as a means of making an unfamiliar place feels more familiar, or is it all mother nature's doing?

Loved the slick slide show

Submitted by steve on Wed, 11/12/2008 - 10:26.

Kudos on putting up a slide show.  (The reason it originally posted small was that you need to change the input format from filtered to full html.)  You certainly are getting around—you're like Matt in those Where's Matt videos.  Keep it up.

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