...a quote, from.."on the gringo trail"

'...the gringo trail extends across South America along the spine of the Andes mountains. Starting from the city of Cartagena, on the Colombian coast, it runs past Silvia to Otovalo, Equador. From there it winds south and upward to Machu Pichu-passes through bolivia, and finally ends near Iguaza Falls on the border of Brazil,Paraguay and Argentina..........

......Cartagena was a much cooler town before Spring '74, when a gringo left a kilo of coke behind when he checked out. The town police have since been forced to take a more active role and are now watching the infamous Hotel Bellavista closely......

.....silvia..."After it stops raining and the sun shines-you have to wait a bit--go down behind the graveyard. There's a field where they grow in a few hours. Don't eat too many,you might turn blue.....

....the gringo trail is not for the timid, the inexperienced or the 14-year-old runaway. It is a sudden transition into regions untouched by industrial civilization, into cultures all but incomprehensible to the Northern mind, into pestilential hostels, prisons and jungles. But the trail is marked by strange and wild beauties; it teaches gringos silence, exile and cunning.

By oldbongo on Feb 3, 2006, 11:22 in Friendly Talkzone.