South America

[Tadaa!]

i am going crazy here...

yes, it's been great seeing my friends again. watching belgium being covered in snow. working and making some money. wishing everybody a merry christmas and the best for next year.

but i can't take it much longer anymore. i miss it!
i miss standing at the onramp. smoking a sigaret in the shade of the only tree. putting my tent up behing some bushes next to the intersection.
watching those headlights going by at night. falling asleep with the sounds from passing cars.
getting stuck with nothing around you but a beautifull landscape and when that one car pulls over knowing you will start talking about the weather but depard ways as friends.
coming in places you never intended but writing them down in your top ten of faverites towns that trip.
swimming in that way to cold water from the glaciers. having a bath in the ocean and washing my clothes in the creek.
dragging your friend up a mountain up cause out of energy. and once up giving a hug and be the happiest two people in the planet.
.........
.........

i can't wait to go. i guess my last day at work will be the 15th of januari..
hitchhiking from Belgium to seveilla in Spain cause one of my best friends will go study there.
i don't know my stops along the way yet. but Toulouse for sure.
maybe have a beer in Ulm, Germany and go out in Milan, Italy or go and have a swim in the Steet of gibraltar so i have been in the most southern point of europe.

flying the 25th of januari from Madrid, Spain to Santiago, Chile

then.. adventure, life

the plan.. hitchhike in chile to Tierra Del Fuego. Around Argentina. Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru.

the dream. make it to peru and still have the energy to go more north.
once in central america it will go easier again cause then i have the land of the free waiting for me. friends in the usa/canada seeing again and keep exploring the united states of america. i love it. the land of the free..
if i don't make it. so be it. as long as i am happy..

i hope to run into old friends and make some new ones. see nice concerts and dance my feet of at partys. a festival where i can volunteer. finding a job for a little while. maybe even find love. i already have the love for the road. and maybe that is enough for now.

see you soon.

Dries

I’ve never yearned for anybody’s fortune
The less I have the more I am a happy man
Now my mother told me always keep your head on
Because some may praise you just to get what they want
And I said mama I am not afraid
They will take what they will take
And what would life be like without a few mistakes

Like a hobo from a broken home
Nothing’s gonna stop me

(from 'like a hobo' by charlie winston)

[Tadaa!]

if someone from this forum lives somewhere in south america feel free to drop me line.
i am always up to meet some people. have a beer, go for a hike. travel together for a while.. whatever your up to.. and a couch to crash on is alway apreciated.
take care.

[woolf]

Oh Dries, you always have a way of making us jealous of you. Bon Voyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaage.

[vision]

ah Dries, to read your post is so ...mmmm, i hope time will fly for you so that you can hit the road again, on your way to adventures and new experiences

[bastet]

that first part, dries, that gave me shivers. these are the things i regret i haven't experienced. but then i made other choices, thinking the travelling would still be possible once my kids had grown up. wrong thinking.

anyways, my heart and thoughts will be with you.

be happy, be safe!

oh, and try to give us a little update evry now and then, so we can all dream a bit.

[Tadaa!]

aiai

i just lost my creditcard somewhere between chile and argentina

trying to solve this and soon hope to put up some stories..
chile is so beautifull.. and not only the country.. also the people are so nice.
just got in baliroche, argentine.. tomorrow some hiking and then hitch more south..

gave myself 200 days to go from the most southern point in south america to the most northern in north america

this is it for now..

[woolf]

Wow 200 days, that is really something. Good luck the rest of your trip and I hope you find your CC soon.

[bastet]

hope you can solve the problem with the credit card, dries. (i have no clue about what one should do in such cases )

enjoy your trip. i hope you make it.
i'm looking forward to stories and photos. bookmarked your blog, of course!

[Tadaa!]

in santiago chile again.
can start working at the hostel here for a month (or as long as i want actually..
4 hours a day and i can stay for free and do all the activities for free as well

now gonna look for a school to learn spanish.. so far i learned a lot of word but i need to learn to make sentences..

gonna upload pictures in the next days. ( i know i said this a lot of times before haha but nw i have tima and a computer availible

take care
Dries

[bastet]

take care you too. great to hear some news.