For Mom, Love Steve

You know what is worse than a Sunday in South America, a freaking holiday on monday. Now its not like Christmas or anything, but a holiday that nobody quite knows exactly what its for, but they do know that they don´t have to work. Therefore, if you re-read sunday, maybe with only one eye to mix it up, you will see what my monday was like. I did walk around for about an hour in the morning wondering why it felt like sunday, until finally I asked why everything seemed closed. “Oh, some holiday”.
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Sundays kind of suck. Everything is closed so you are forced to do nothing. My only duty was to move from the air conditioned room to a fan room. I had gotten the air co room because the single fan rooms were full and she gave me a deal from $30R to $25. The fan rooms were $20R it was a few bucks saved. In the evenings and at night I didn’t use the air co anyways. I went to talk to the lady who said I had to wait for the room to be cleaned so I went and had my usual breakfast. Not knowing what time my room was ready I decided to take advantage of my air conditioned room so I just lazed around until noon. When I went out to ask how much longer, I was told the lady had left. With that I decided I would do a little bit of exploring and then when I got back I would deal with the room. At worse I would stay one more night there and make her give me a price break since I did wait.
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With a good air conditioned nights sleep in my same room as before I awoke feeling refreshed. The hot and steamy trek was over and now it was just relax time. I had stopped by the port terminal ... [Continue reading this entry]

I awoke in a much better mood. Although the whole trip turned out to be a total tourist package, I kind of rationalized that I shouldn’t have expected much from a three day tour when it would probably take ... [Continue reading this entry]

Surprisingly, once I got to sleep I did fairly well. I only awoke once to take a pee and two other times when Carla had to scream at Marco to get up so she could use the flashlight. ... [Continue reading this entry]

Today we would start our expedition into the Amazon Jungle. I got up at my usual 6am but I later learned that Marco had gotten up at 4am as excited as a kid on Christmas. Carla said he ... [Continue reading this entry]

Instead of kicking back in a hotel with clear water, air conditioning, and tons of fresh fruits, I awoke to the usual hum of the motor and the slight rocking of the boat. Today was a little bit more ... [Continue reading this entry]

A new day and a new Steve. Actually I was still in a funk but first thing in the morning I ran into Dennis one of the guys in the Cama just down from me. He was traveling ... [Continue reading this entry]

Today was a depression day. I woke up feeling lonely knowing that there was nobody outside to hang out with. Everybody was gone. That lasted until I got the breakfast knock and my spirits lifted for the ... [Continue reading this entry]

I woke up when the early birds started to rustle. It was about 6am. I actually wasn’t tired so I just picked up where I left off in my new chick book. Soon after Marise woke up ... [Continue reading this entry]