SAN MIGUEL DEL MONTE, ARGENTINA, APRIL 18, 2009 I came to Argentina with a one-way ticket on Jan. 6, 2009, with no plan of what to do next or when to return. I met Mauro (pictured) in El Calafate, Argentina, and spent the next eight months taking weekend road trips with a South American Vespa club. This was taken in San Miguel del Monte, a small Argentinian town 140 kilometers outside the city of Buenos Aires. I would never have had the sheer pleasure of meeting this village, off the pages of the Rough Guide, had it not been for Mauro and his passion for Vespas.
— Leah Concannon, New York City
Waa travel for 8 mths taking weekend road trips... This guy went to Argentina not knowing what to do next or when to return. It sounds scary but wow quite exciting. I wonder if God will allow such extravagance with regards to traveling or backpacking. Like i've talked to this american who stayed at my house. He just left america to backpack the WORLD. Yes. the whole world. it'll take him like a few years or sth and he's alr finished Asia. Would God ever like ask me to do sth like that. Or rather, can that ever be God's plan for someone. I dunno man haha. a 2 week holiday i can understand. We all need a break, a rest, a time to chill out from working. But a 2 year backpacking trip. Wow. that's something else altogether. But i'm actually pretty sure if you were to travel the world for 2 years, you would come back, a better person, a more open person, more relaxed, able to look at things from a different perspective, learn to put things in their proper context, and perhaps enjoy the finer things in life more. haha. i dunno.
i'll be traveling usa on my own for about 5 weeks in may, the 6th week my friends are joining me. i'll be in montana for 4 weeks so during the weekends i may go Canada, or i may go to the national parks etc. and wow traveling alone is definitely new to me but it is exciting. When i go there, i think i really wanna open up my mind, be less singaporean, take risks, be less self conscious, experience life there... but i also hope that i will develop a godly perspective of life, to put life in its proper context, to see things the way God sees, to feel for the things God feels for, to feel less for the things that are less important.
