Oh MamaEarth….

Buenos Aires Street Life

This post has nothing to do with my destinations and travel, yet has everything to do with friendship.  And, I just want to talk about this.

A local man about 25 years old screams & yells below my apartment, curses & spits… flails his arms and causes such a racket.  I peek down and look outside, just to see wtf is going on…Oh, it’s the blue-shirt man again. Yikes!  I am scared of this man.  “He is on drugs.” this was my initial thought. Not “Is he on drugs?”  Second thought:  Stay away from the crazy man…keep your distance girl, keep it safe.

Then last night, I heard blue-shirt man yelling up a storm and I looked down over my terrace.  The blue-shirt man was sitting with his friends on the curb, just hanging out enjoying the evening time.  Every once in a while, blue-shirt man would throw a screaming fit, and I saw him slap himself a few times…HARD.  His friends didn’t react. Nothing.  Zilcho.  They obviously knew something about blue-shirt man that I didn’t.

Blue-shirt man most likely has Tourette Syndrome.  When put into context of a circle of friends who didn’t care about it…or better yet understood what was going on with the screaming & flailing, it didn’t look that scary to me anymore.  He wasn’t on drugs, and he is not crazy, just has something else going on in his brain.  I was very pleased to see his circle of friends sitting with him and just being mates.  Made me like people more.

11 June 2012–Susi’s officially on the Loose!

stepping out

Dear Friends & Family,

Welcome to my travel blog.  My last day of official work was 8th June.  I am now a non-employed citizen of the world (I think I was a world citizen before my job ended).  So, get your spare bedroom and couches ready for me, I may just drop by…and if you have empty apartments around the globe, or friends who do, let me know and we can make a deal…

Overall my scope and sequence is loose.  A woman on the loose, but not a loose woman (well, sort of). Where am I going?  Heading down to South America, destinations unknown. Would like to see the Galapagos, Machu Picchu, and do some fly fishing in Argentina.  Carnival and Antarctica are maybes–just too far away to plan.  Trying to keep about 10 months of my time open.  Wide open spaces.  I want to do a lot of walking/hiking too. Forrest Gump, I understand your loooong run….I feel like I need to do a looong walk–void my mind, achieve nothing, detach, calm–just be present in each step.  Ready for the changes my brain & body will make away from the daily grind.

So, welcome to my first post, have a look around, and I will be writing letters to friends and family along the way!

love,