i'm really jealous this is seriously awesome guys.

once i get the money saved up i'd do this shit in a heartbeat

marmot is actually part of the sombra negra.

Really, the BEST thing about all this is that Gazz and I transcended our virtual friendship and now I can say we are real REAL friends without hesitation.

Gazz is like... the brotha I never had.

We're seeing each other probably 3 more times this year.

Madness indeed.


BTW guys, guys... Check our album SPACELANDING. So good.
I wanna hear your comments guys
guys

why dont ya marry him...

yeah, also we're both straight. A shame. I would have become european and gotten the hell out of here.
Too bad I'm straight

three more times? isn't that going to cost an arm and a leg?

first at Ecuador/Peru
around July

then Buenos Aires
around October

then London
around Xmas
prolly going to Amsterdam and Berlin together as well


although these are rough plans, BA and London are happening

oh i thought he was coming three times. yeah that's much cooler. i'm glad you guys are doing this! gw is probably now the kind of place where if someone posted "I WON THE IGF" we'd be more thrilled about your trip than that.

whoa whoa whoa! Last time I checked this topic it was all ego-inflation and "man you're so cool". What's happened guys? Gay marriage? Bromance? I feel very vulnerable right now.

Like I said, if I can save the money up, I hope to go and do a big South America trip for a few months later in the year. I'd go to Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil. There's also a town in Paraguay right on the border with Argentina and Brazil where they sell guns, so I'd like to go check that out (Shep didn't want to when we were near there before). Clearly, I quite like South America.  Talking of bromances...we saw these samba dancers...one of which was clearly a man in drag. I think Shep fell in love that evening. I saw it in his eyes. He was crushed when I told him it was a guy.

shep also wants to do a trip to europe in december-february, so I get to show him around London and uh, the shithole that I call home.

to draw attention away from any bromantic ideals, here be some more choice photo cuts:


Chile


lake at bariloche


that is me. and mountain.


don't jump!!


he fell over (again)


amazing scenery but i clearly want to go back to sleep


the famous perito moreno glacier


la boca


brazil from argentina


biggest ice cream (and worst photo) ever


IT'S CARNIVALE!!

fuck you btw

whywhywhyw

man is there any spot in Argentina that isn't seriously epic

only disappointing thing is the world's biggest ice cream I totally feel let down

Edit: argentina's flag is pretty creepy but maybe it's just because of the music over it

I agree U.S. needs COOLER GEOGRAPHY do we have like the tallest or biggest or greenest or bluest anything (well biggest stuff aside from people and deficit lol)

Edit: Is Niagara Falls at least the widest waterfall or something because I'm pretty sure in the video I saw one that owned niagara falls as far as tallness goes

I seem to remember reading that Iguazu Falls in Argentina is the 5th tallest in the world. Shep probably knows for sure. Having never been to Niagra or Victoria falls, I don't really know how they compare, but Iguazu was cool because not only was it huge, but there were loads of waterfalls of varying sizes all along the river. You'd be walking through the forest and there were waterfalls everywhere. At the u-bend at the end of the river, you had the devil's throat fall which is the really big one. Then on both sides of the river there were lots of falls of varying sizes. I found these panorama picture taken from the brazillian side that puts things into perspective a little bit:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Iguazu_D%C3%A9cembre_2007_-_Panorama_1.jpg/2000px-Iguazu_D%C3%A9cembre_2007_-_Panorama_1.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Iguazu_D%C3%A9cembre_2007_-_Panorama_5.jpg

Wow that place looks so awesome :O
I think Niagara Falls might have looked like that before people built talking houses all around it.

wait

how can the argentine flag be creepy?

possibly the big ol' face on it