Travelling

There is nothing like travelling customs or ambitious here. No one year gap, no plans to visit the world and even less to conquer it. They might say they travel. That basically means they were in Argentina, in some hotel or hostel with the same group of friends they would meet on Sunday asado. Or they have been is Spain to work for a year or visit the cousin in Sweden or US. 

They have few perfect excuses for this.

One is – “saving”, the 2^nd most popular is: “my father told me I should know my own country first” or sth like that. Saving is bullshit and whoever reads this blog, knows it by now. The second one.. well.. they do travel in their country, they usually live in few cities in their life, too. But again the pattern of “let’s go to this spot for few days” is in fact  understood by everyone “lets lay on the beach in some nice playa and in the evening we will go to casino / bar / asado together and it will be so much fun”.

There are groups that do the trekking stuff, too. There is max 2 hours of the way to really great mountain from any point in this country so that would be really stupid if they wouldn’t. So they do, some of them quite regularly, but not for much longer than 7 hours to be on time for evening asado.

Well.. sometimes I understand. Not everyone is born to camp. On the other hand camping here is possible all year long, at least at the north part. And campings offer usually quite nice chinco (place for the tent and asado and playing cards). If they are any. Because why they should have any camping I the place of the only one carnival in Chile, in Tirana? It just lasts 2 weeks and it is just not more than 200 000 people arriving to the village of 100 houses.

Last but not least – they do want to travel safe (who wouldn’t) and – as in their opinion most of the cities are very unsafe – why bother. I haven’t seen any hitchhiker on the road, and I crossed here more than 8000 km of different type of roads.

It has good sides, too. With my not so big travelling experience, me travelling alone is some kind of a hero from the unknown fairytale. Plus I come from the country that has such a terrifying weather conditions like minus 20 in winter. Brave gringa with sangre helada.