Alright fellas.

Probably most of you guys noticed that I've been absent for quite a while.
Well, that's because I've been busy hanging around with my man GaZZwa.

That's right, what was eventually going to happen, it finally did.

GAZZ MET SHEP (and the world trembled)

Here's what G wrote:

"Alright fellows! So, in January I took a plane from London and ended up in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Some random guy who looked kinda familiar met me at the airport, what was his name again? Oh yes, it was fuckin’ SHEPPERD.


So we partied in Buenos Aires and explored the city and jammed and ate amazing Argentine food (seriously the meat is the greatest thing in the world and the second greatest thing in the world is dulce de leche) and we went white water rafting and trekked up mountains, across glaciers, canoed in huge beautiful lakes, kayaked on the Rio del la Plata (which is so wide you can’t see the other side, the other side being Uruguay), went to Brazil, stepped foot in Chile, took several 20+ hour bus trips, walked across salt flats, went to remote towns in the desert populated by indigenous people who crowded round when we went into the street, spent some time in the jungle, swam in Shep’s pool (dude has a pool!), mountain biked, ziplined across rivers, went under Iguazu falls on a boat, and went reeeeaaally far south which is pretty close to Antarctica, made friends, went camping, went to the fucking carnival, ate the biggest ice creams in the world ever (as big as my arm no joke!), swam in the Rio Uruguay, and had a supersplendid time.


Shep fell over a lot. I got bitten by an insane amount of mosquitos. A month and a half later I was back in the northern hemisphere reminiscing on the great trip I’d taken yet. Mark my words, I shall return to South America soon."   


Inhale the emptiness


Salta's salt flats


Into the Iguazu Falls (literally)


There's water on mars guys


Although it wasn't all just traveling and becoming part of the grandeur of the outdoors. We had some massive good fun, got into trouble, busted climbing fences, hitchhiking, sleeping over at grizzly old man's house, G's chin swelling to Jay Leno proportions, getting dumped at 5 am in the middle of nowhere and having to find way back to the hostel, among others...



However, we think that the best way to show our solid good times on the south hemisphere is by posting this amazing video G did:





AND THAT'S NOT ALL!!!!

During Gazz's stay at my place we recorded a TERRIFIC music album.

SPACELANDING - PLAY YOUNG

CLICK THIS LINK TO GET TO THE ALBUM: http://www.gamingw.net/forums/index.php?topic=9831.new#new

thank you for having one of maybe two gw meets without a single videogame. also this actually looks awesome because you went out and did shit (a hilarious amount).

i definitely had no idea gazzwa was british though. i was actually under the assumption you were both in argentina!

Haha yeah this is a GW meet but not as we know it. Looks like you guys had a lot of fun

this is a real meet, awesome times bud

I so want to do all of that and jump out of an airplane on acid whos with me

I so want to do all of that and jump out of an airplane on acid whos with me

holla

river scoot owned.

better than tallahassee gw meet

fuck you bud all we could do is get drunk or get arrested in Tallahassee

a month and a half! that's so cool. you just spent a month and a half in argentina. did you stay with shep the whole time or what?

aaaaaaaah this is ridiculous. how did you do this? was it over winter break or something? i guess it was. thats a long fuckin trip though. maaaah maah i wish i were you.

better than the tallahassee meet... well, let's not go crazy

the following things are true:

argentina is a very long way away from the uk (over 11,000 km apparently)
argentina is much bigger than the uk and has jungle to the north, desert to the north west, mountains and forests and lakes and ice fields in the south, and empty open space in between. It also has the fuckin' Andes.
shep speaks better spanish than I do
buenos aires in the summer time is really really hot
if you have the chance to go visit a friend in a faraway land you should absolutely 100% do it without hesitation
even if that means going by yourself and shitting it that he'd turn out to be a murdering rapist OR WORSE
argentina is the most amazing country
this trip has improved anglo-argentine relations tenfold
the spanish title for the film Blazing Saddles is "Craziness in the West"
argentine parrillas, alfajores, dulce de leche, ice cream and empanadas are AMAZING. Dulce de batata con queso fresco less so.
argentine people drive like craaaaazypeoples
having a 60 year old australian man named Dennis fall in love with you isn't fun
nor is having your bank account frozen when you're on your own and thousands of miles away from anyone else you know
an argentine evening (dinner at 11pm, bar at 2.30, club at 4.30, home at 6 or 7) is the way forward
i had an insanely good time


that is all

Really really good. Thanks for making this topic and telling us all about it.

a month and a half! that's so cool. you just spent a month and a half in argentina. did you stay with shep the whole time or what?

here's how it went. I flew to Buenos Aires (where Shep lives), stayed at his place for 2 nights. Then, we both took a bus for 21 hours to get us to San Carlos de Bariloche (see map below). Hostelled it up there and a nearby town called Villa l'angosturra for probably a week in total, biking, canoeing, trekking, rafting etc, before driving south for 2 days to El Chalten, where we hiked up to Mt Fitzroy and walked on the glacier and did ice climbing, then a few hours south to El Calafate to see the famous Perito Moreno glacier. We then flew back up to Buenos Aires. I stayed at Shep's place for a week, went out in the city and did all kinds of cool things.

Then I went off by myself, taking another 20 hour or so bus to Salta, where I stayed for just under a week. Hostelled it up, made friends, went on walks, went across the salt flats, visited these really remote towns in the middle of nowhere with all these little adobe houses, got my ass dumped by my hostel friends at a nightclub and ending up walking for hours across Salta at 5 in the morning with no clue where I was going, with no money for a cab. Saw frozen dead inca children. Then I took a 24 hour bus journey across east right up to the border with Brazil to Puerto Iguazu, where Shep met me. We hostelled it there for a few nights, saw the falls, went to Brazil, then back to Buenos Aires.

2 nights later we went with Shep's sister and her friend a few hours north to a town on the Rio Uruguay called Gualeguaychu, where we camped and went to the carnival. That was a blast. Got caught by cops (or security? dont know) climbing over the fence into the VIP area. Back to Buenos Aires, I explored the city by myself for a few days, hung out with Shep's mates, then home time.



Esiann: I graduated from university last year, I travelled round Europe for a month, then worked until January, by which time I'd saved enough money to go to Argentina. If I can get another job (they're very scarce at the moment) I'm hoping to go back for at least 3 months later in the year.

man

MAN

this is insane. I can't believe you guys did this. You fucking trekked across Argentina for 6 weeks. You ZIPLINED across a river. This is insane. And you found time to make music. You guys are the best. This really is the best GW thing ever to happen. This cannot be beat.