Thursday, 16 February 2012

BARAO

Barao es un termino con filiacion nautica que denota a un barco que por una razón u otra no puede moverse. 
Hace mas de dos meses llegue a Caracas con el plan de una brave vacacion visitar a mi familia, amigos y escapar de nuevo a los Estados Unidos, pais que me ha hospedado por mas de tras anos. Al tratar de renovar mi Visa me encuentré que pasados dos meses la espera continua sin ninguna respuesta por parte de la embajada americana.
Sin embargo, estar "barao" te fuerza a reconectarte con elementos que habias dejado atras que habias olvidado y que de cierta forma son parte de ti es que ser Venezolano viene con una idiosincrasia que te permite estar "Jodio pero contento" asi comenzó mi perigrinaje para optener documentos (cédula, pasaporte y licencia) recuperar mi identidad legal ha sido una empresa titánica. Pero reconectarse es útil y sano. Reconectarse con ese viaje en carrito, metro, el perro caliente, la trampa criolla, la picardía ese sabor criollo que nos ensalsa.
Aprender a tocar cuatro, comer platano y tal calí son joyas que solo con los ojos del exilado son bien apreciadas.
Los cuentos son varios ahora el tiempo no alcanza pero por ahora, sigo barao pero contento.

Wednesday, 16 November 2011

After 6 moths in my final destination (Corvallis, Oregon) I've decided to return to this blog and finish my story from the end of my trip. I will be writing the rest of my trip and experiences from my memory.

Monday, 14 February 2011

Albuquerque

I made it to Albuquerque NM, I am really tired last drive was pretty long and tomorrow I wan to make it to Kingman, Arizona to put me closer to the border with California, that way I will have more time to visit the Mohave and maybe stay one night there. Today, the ride was pretty good, driving with a shining sun and blue skies can really help me to keep going.
I fond out that making videos, pictures and thinking how to put this blog together really helps me to kepp me bust.
In Albuquerque I treat myself with a nice seafood dinner in a close by restaurant, I had Shrimps Veracruz and a couple of Bohemia. Now I am really ready for bed.

Sunday, 13 February 2011

Leaving St Louis

In my room OK

Change of plans

Life is always making you to change, adapt or just to say fuck it!!!. On my way to Tulsa I realized that the person that I was to stay with ( a friend of a friend) could not longer host me. So I had to keep driving to Oklahoma city.
I hate driving at night for several reasons, one of them is that like my mom I always like to think in the worse case scenario and the other is that being from Venezuela driving in a Highway at night is a instant trigger for traumatic stress disorder, since we had seen all kind of events in that setting.
The entrance to my room #141

Pretty decent he?






Tomorrow I will head to Albuquerque, New Mexico and from there Arizona.
Wild Mushrooms Risotto
My stay in St Louis was great!! I even had the time to make a decent wild mushrooms rissotto in my friends house. Today I really felt the loneliness of the road, is pretty hard to keep your mind busy and I feel that I am running out of self reflection topics.

Sweet delay

One of the things that stress us out is being delayed, we had created this false sense that we MUST be somewhere at some specific time. The truth is, that the only place you have to be is exactly where you are in that specific moment.
I woke up in St. Louis in my friends Vanessa and Max house, I had planned to start driving three hours ago, but Vane just made pumpkin pancakes, with sausages and cheese.... How can you not accept this treat and sweet delay??
I will get to the road in the perfect moment, whenever it is.