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43:The tour of awesome
24 DEC 2011 - 15 JAN 2012
43:The tour of awesome
24 DEC 2011 - 15 JAN 2012
I think this makes my point
In the same tradition of other kick-off write ups such as 'Life in a year full of Saturdays', 'The wing and a prayer tour', and Don't call this a comeback, I bring you '43 - The tour of awesome!'
If you remember this write up 'You're worth what you've got' or this one,' Quelle belle morte', then you would more than likely also know that stumps were drawn quite prematurely during that trip due to either an errant gringo or a nubile senor making their way both to and then through my travel bag of treats and lifting my financial lifeline for their own personal gratification. A couple of days after those events I endured a 60hr bus ride south to Buenos Aires by which time I had had enough time of endless gazing to easily convince myself that I’d have to make my way back within a year in order to finish off a significant part of what I unfortunately had to leave behind. This my friends is the return - we welcome you now to Redemption Island!
When my Life in a Year full of Saturdays commenced last year I had placed myself on the road to escapism. I needed a break from everything that my life had become until that point which felt like an endless washing cycle of work, study, exams, coffee and the yearning for sleep. This little sojourn back to Sur America, aside from being a kept promise to myself to be in Rio for NYE, also sees me on the other side of a 6 year tall hurdle of commitment and torment which in common terms is known as the undertaking of a law degree. It also sees me typing ‘THE END’ in bold 72 point Arial at the end of a chapter of my life that has run the course of 17 years, three degrees and numerous hours of midnight madness in the quest for finding creative ways of delivering a pass mark. My favourite and most successful involved playing guitar for several hours, all two of the chords in my repertoire, and magically activating the memory function in my mental E:drive that allowed me to stuff a semester’s worth of monetary policy notes into the empty file prior to the sun lighting up my window on exam day!
So, as I said to a friend of mine the other day, ‘this is a victory lap...this one is for the fans’. The plan as it stands at the moment is to head out with Janelle and Frichot from Sydney on the 24th of December and to make our way to Rio by the 26th. After that, well, the concept is rather simple...let the good times roll!
