I don´t know...

I just like these pictures

Big bugs

Just some little fellas I came across in the pad. Click on the pictures to see them larger.

This wasp was so mellow. I could get the lens of the camera an inch away and it didn´t care. It was eating its banana. It comes by everyday to check out the kitchen, espacially when my aunt is melting panela(a hard block of pure cane juice. It's so good).

my barrio

I´m so excited about this new park. you can see the apartments I´m staying at in the background. I´m going to try to go swiming here everyday. Everywhere you look is forrest and huge mountains.

The park has a huge stadium, fully equiped gymnastics arena, karate arena, judo arena, fencing arena, tennis, swimming pool, high-dive pool, and they´re still building more.

picturesque isn´t it? the bridge leads to the stadium.

the center lane is for a new trolly-bus.

I´m in the apt. buildings to the right, below.

to the left of the bridge. Most of the green is here to stay. Chavez made it all protected forrest. When I go back to Caracas and post the pictures of all the favela-like barrios on the mountains , you´ll see why. It´s crazy.

hope everyone is well.

bored

i wish someone came with me. it´s cool by myself, but i want to go out at night and i don´t feel like doing it by myself. i guess it´s just different. I´m getting restless. I think I need to get back on the road. maybe the northwest coast. I got bit by mosquito today, i think it´s the kind the carries dengue fever. i´m not sick yet.

there´s some more photos on flickr. the link is on the side here. i´m not getting any good photos. it sucks.

I´m lost somewhere downtown, so I better find my way home before it gets dark. bye all

The Quick and Dirty

I gotta be quick. I didn´t realize how hard this would be. These computers aren´t exactly compatable with my vision, but I´ll make it work. Of all the pictures I brought to the internet cafe only two would download. There´ll be more
So It took about 51 hours to get to the capital city Merida of Merida the state. It was a fucked up journey that left me feeling trapped and home sick. Rock bottom was the bus station in Barquimeto. It was insane. Nowhere to sit and people yelling non-stop. I had to drag all my bags on torn up pavement and it was raining, luckily it´s warm when it rains.
Flying in was one of the most amazing things I´ve ever seen. The Andean mountains butt up against the Caribean coast. I have some really bad pictures from the plane. You were right, Patrick. But you can get the gist of it. I´ll probably put those on Flickr
Caracas and the big citys I´ve travelled through are really modern and primitive at the same time. So many fucking cars and no smog control. Sometimes I feel I´m going to pass out from the fumes.
Merida is even more beautiful. It´s right in the middle of the andes mountains, so every direction you look there are peaks and the clouds seem to just hang out in between ridges.
There´s just to much to talk about. I´ll have to figure out how to make this quicker. I´ll probably write it all out ahead of time on my mom´s computer.

The whole building is just cars, I´m sure it´s like this in New York or other spots in the states, but this just looks crazy

A bike cop chillin´on the divider of a freeway-like avenue. On this same road I saw an old pickup stopped in the middle of the road with a guy inside the engine compartment, all you could see was his head. I wasn´t quick enough with the camera.

Love you all. email me or message me on myspace. I´m a little homesick. more to come