Wow man, this is awesome. Just out of curiosity, how much did the whole trip cost to you? This is one of the coolest things ever. I'll hopefully travel around Europe this summer but it would be really cool to go somewhere like South America or New Zealand or something like that. But yeah, this is cool as hell.

I managed to get a really good price for my flights: £600. I spent a little more than £800 on the rest of the trip, thanks to Argentina being a lot cheaper than the UK, and of course staying at Shep's in Buenos Aires instead of a hostel. I'd saved up more than double than that from my job and budgeted for much more, and it's great that I came back with plenty of money still. In fact, 2 weeks after being back from Argentina, I randomly hopped on a flight to Berlin and hung out there for a week with the money I didn't spend.

also the shitty thing is south america is full of stuff like this.  the us has stuff but nowhere near as as much i dont think.  its just not the same.  i wish i lived in a geographically cooler country.  canada has tons of nice shit but it's so cold!!! like we have mountains and rivers and lakes and salt flats too but.... theyre really spread out and in between all of that are walmarts and best cuts. argentina doesnt seem to be like this. also we dont have JUNGLE. still, the southwest seems really cool. like... geographically and historically interesting and really kind of a neat OUTDOORS/WILDERNESS/NATURAL PLACE. lets all buy a camper and drift . . . through the great american southwest

when I did my trip across Europe last year, some friends went to the U.S. Whilst I'm sure I'd have a great time there (you always do when you're adventuring with friends, right?), there does seem to be something not-that-exciting about the travelling across the U.S. For me at least, there's the same language, similar (in many ways) culture, and I imagine it'd suffer for being a lot of cities that aren't too different from one another. Sure New York is going to be hugely different to say, LA, but in between? I don't know. Whereas in Europe you're going to different countries and working with different languages every 5 minutes. And I don't have a bad word to say about the parts of South America I've seen.

heh. you could come to berklee and hang out with me

$13,990/semester next year, +room/board is probably like $18,000

Boston College (Chestnut Hill, MA)

i live in Mass too but its closer to RI (I feel like I've said this 18 times and feel like an idiot. wait. you're being sarcastic you bitch

what! I tried to organize a GW northeast meet and you def. probably (maybe) commented in it about how DC would be better than NYC or something

nah boston is actually a really cool city relative to other ones!  i was making fun of chef because boston is INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN and past a certain scale it becomes difficult to differentiate between cities, i think.  new york is more interesting imo but cities like bostom or chicago are hardly BORING, even compared to larger ones.

i just live through anthony bourdain's no reservations. ive traveled the world through youtube...

whoops i meant mi is 15000 per year. lynchburg college is 40k per year.

lol guess thats why im in community college

if you are mildly interested in why the US is the way it is, a goon actually had a good thread about it: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3090821

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

This is something I've got on my list of things to do before I die.

your heart would probably fail

although that would be really interesting to get people on acid or shrooms or dmt or mescaline and have them ride around in the vomit comet to see what the effects of weightlessness in a free-fall environment are on the tripping person lol

first person to do it gets to be the next jesus

when i was like 18 i was going to backpack to oaxaca when the state had been basically overthrown and the whole shitstorm was happenin with some buds but i chickened out. ​. gotta love em paramilitaries

marmot tell me about the drug cartels and shit. is mexico really as corrupt and violent now as i'm hearing here in america?

marmot tell me about the drug cartels and shit. is mexico really as corrupt and violent now as i'm hearing here in america?

its pretty bad. last year like 10k were documented to be dead because of the drug wars. i imagine they are even more cuz these are just recorded numbers. where i used to live is terrible right now. i remember hearing shots in front of my house and some blocks away some grenade detonated. its a fucking civil war.

but the issue of oaxaca is different. in 2006 there was a general strike and the government was thrown out of oaxaca lol. but it was ridden also by right wing paramilitaries who were paid 30 bucks a day to kill people

30 bucks a day?? found my summer job..

i did a report on the drug war and it seems to be really bad! you can't go anywhere in Nuevo Laredo or Ciudad Juarez at night without hearing AK-47 fire apparently.

Man.. those waterfalls and mountains O_O
Also the town in southmost argentina, I've been checking it out on the intranets. Did you check the prices on a boatrip
to antarctica from there? I've only read it's available during summer and that it's quite expensive but I wanna know HOW MUCH!!