...Are you real? did we actually travelled together thru the transiberian? are you seriously from NZ? was I walking barefoot all the time? how long my beard was? was I shoting pictures everyday? we spent your b-day together...with Pablo?? blue starfish are for real? have we been in Timor Leste? That country does actually exist? How did the milk taste in mongolia? and the camel cheese? how often we used to smile? What was the temperature in Gobi desert? is it true that there was a glacier? how did we manage to speak with the nomads? how many times did we sleep ont the street? were we scared? did we ride motorbikes? is it true that we tried to escape from the police? Manu was a human being or another invention? what about Kupang, their market, mama Bende, the children dancing with us... was it real ? were we traveling light? was I always lost as I refused to read maps?...why wellington wasnt windy? why writing in english is getting so hard? why i havent touched my camera? why do i have to wear shoes? where I have been, how long...a year, seriously? lots of things that doesnt make sense.
1. Yes I am real (at least I think so)
Here are my answers:
2. Technically it was the trans-Mongolian which is part of the trans-Siberian and yes we were on it (we nearly both got dragged off it crossing the border into China.
3. Yes I am from New Zealand - it is a real place,
4. Yes you often refused to wear shoes and walked in bare-feet however my feet will always be tougher than yours and I will always offer you my jandals when you are struggling to walk over stones, you will always refuse :)
5. Yes everyday you took at least one photo except in Cambodia where you lost your motivation for a bit, occasionally it was annoying when I was walking with 20+ kilos on my back but now that I have all your photos the pain seems worth it.
6. Yip we spent the day in Bali for my birthday with Pablo and you brought me brownie cause it was my birthday.
7. Blue starfish are real - there are lots in Komodo National Park.
8. Yip we got to Timor-Leste eventually after a painful wait for our visas and an even more painful 12 hour van drive.
9. It is very new (only 10 years old) but it does exist.
10. It tastes revolting - it's warm, salty, sour milk, that tastes like someone left it in the sun for about a week and emptied 1/2 a cup of salt into it.
11. We smiled a lot but there were also days that I didn't want to smile or couldn't.
12. The temperature was somewhere between freezing cold (at night and I was pleased to have my sleeping bag) and boiling hot as we wondered through the sand dunes.
13. I'm not sure it was a glacier but there was definitely a large chunk of ice there.
14. I think I just smiled at the nomads and you communicated through broken English and hilarious hand movements (you were much better at that than me).
15. Plenty of sleeping in airports and absolutely in one train station.
16. Not sleeping at the train station, but I think that you were scared when that Cambodian guy was driving us to the boxing - but you felt bad for doubting him and brought him a beer :)
17. Yes lots of motorbikes - we even came off one once but I managed to injure myself worse just by walking on a Dili street.
18. Haha yes we did.
19. Honestly I don't know he was such and interesting man but I hope I never meet anyone like that again.
20. Kupang market was amazing the fresh fish was awesome, saying goodbye to Mama Bende actually made me sad, the children danced and then asked us for money, haha.
21. Some days we traveled light other times we had way way way too much stuff.
22. Yes you have a terrible sense of direction and even when you tried to read a map you often got it wrong, reading it upside down etc - thank goodness you have other talents.
23. I don't know but it is making up for it today and blowing an absolute gale outside!
24. I don't know but I hope you pick it up again soon I would love to see some photos of Chile, but it's often hard to take photos of things that seem normal to you. Maybe you need to look at Chile with fresh eyes to see what you can take photos of.
25. You never HAVE to wear shoes - maybe you shouldn't and teach Chileans the magical joy of walking in bare-feet everywhere- I try to do it at least 3 times a week.
26. You should write a list and yeah it was about a year.
I hope that helped you make sense of some of it.
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