Blog from Asunción, Paraguay
July 2, 2009
The rodeo clown at the San Juan festival in San Juan...stellar!
The rodeo clown at the San Juan festival in San Juan...stellar!
So we are about 24 hours from departing on an expedition into the Chaco region of Paraguay! We are being hosted at an amazing crib in Asunción by a cool cat Ruben and life is grand. I just posted a newsletter for Argentina if you wanna check that out hit this link here. He're the update....
Giving a lift to the local tailor in Encarnacion
Cristina ended up buying a cheap bike in Encarnacion for about 50 bucks which was totally rebuilt by the super cool bike shop owner Batlome. We hit the road during the tail end of a cold southern storm that soon cleared in San Ignacio to tail winds and blue skies.
Cristina's bike all ready for the road :)
We had a magical adventure to San Juan where a huge festival was going on and we picked up a rider Christian who guided us into the wild festivities. From there we met Ronald who decided to join us the next day to Florida and offered to host us both at his house! Bonus!
Cristian led us to the San Juan festival--cool cat!
Live music in every direction...there is serious talent in Paraguay!
On the road with Ronald and Cristina
Ronald was an epic guest with lots of positive messages on the rolling interview to Florida. We found a sweet campsite there and pedaled our way towards Asuncion. We got word from a Couchsurfer Ruben he'd be at Lake San Bernardino so we made our way to the lake. The magic continues as we get invited to stay for free 2-nights with the gracious hosts Osvaldo and Tony at the historic Hotel del Lago founded back in 1888. Epic! Osvaldo is the king of culture and took us to check out artists of ceramics and a wild indiginous festival.
Lakeside in San Bernardino
The costumes n characters at the festival in Los Altos
From there we rode to Asuncion to stay here with Ruben where we've been treated like kings cooking, eating, jamming to music from all sorts of artists coming and going and doing final prep for the Chaco to Bolivia mission. Cristina is joining me in the Chaco and will finally head back to Argentina and on her own adventures next week. It's been nice having a partner in crime with her own bike for company, massages (she's really good...), help with filming/admin, and she's having just as much fun.
Off tomorow pedalin' northwest! Over n out!
Giving a lift to the local tailor in Encarnacion
Cristina's bike all ready for the road :)
We had a magical adventure to San Juan where a huge festival was going on and we picked up a rider Christian who guided us into the wild festivities. From there we met Ronald who decided to join us the next day to Florida and offered to host us both at his house! Bonus!
Cristian led us to the San Juan festival--cool cat!
Live music in every direction...there is serious talent in Paraguay!
On the road with Ronald and Cristina
Lakeside in San Bernardino
The costumes n characters at the festival in Los Altos
From there we rode to Asuncion to stay here with Ruben where we've been treated like kings cooking, eating, jamming to music from all sorts of artists coming and going and doing final prep for the Chaco to Bolivia mission. Cristina is joining me in the Chaco and will finally head back to Argentina and on her own adventures next week. It's been nice having a partner in crime with her own bike for company, massages (she's really good...), help with filming/admin, and she's having just as much fun.
Off tomorow pedalin' northwest! Over n out!
No comments:
Post a Comment