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074 Ramble On · bit of a Rambler

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  Speaker 1: Hello. My name is Kai, and I am a bit
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  Speaker 1: of a rambler. I like to travel, learn and tell stories.
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  Speaker 1: And today I'm going to ramblelong tell you about what
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: happened this weekend other stuff that I remember, probably forgot
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  Speaker 1: most of it. So what's been going on. I was
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  Speaker 1: getting ready to climb PEAKL because when I moved into
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  Speaker 1: this new apartment, the guy was like, that's PEAKL. You
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  Speaker 1: should climb it. I told him I loved climbing mountains,
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  Speaker 1: and I climbed a few and he was like, climb
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  Speaker 1: that one. That's the biggest one around here. You have
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  Speaker 1: this great view of Cusco and you it's awesome. So
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  Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, for sure. And I kind of
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  Speaker 1: put it off for a few days, maybe a couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks, I don't know. I'm really bad with time.
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  Speaker 1: And then I was like, let's just do it. Let's
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  Speaker 1: go climb PEKL today. And I pushed myself and I
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  Speaker 1: got my hat and I put on sunscreen and I
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  Speaker 1: just got all this stuff ready and I was like, okay, okay.
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  Speaker 1: And when I was getting ready, I checked outside and
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  Speaker 1: it was a blue sky and all this and it
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  Speaker 1: took me, I don't know, five minutes to get ready.
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  Speaker 1: I had a day bag with a thing of water
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  Speaker 1: in it, put on sunscreen, got my hat, got my
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  Speaker 1: sun sleeves, and then I looked out the window and
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  Speaker 1: clouds had descended onto the peak of this mountain. And
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  Speaker 1: the moment I looked out the window, I saw lateral
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  Speaker 1: lightning crackle across the top of peecl and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: all right, I guess I'll wait. Then that happens, you know,
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  Speaker 1: already at eleven thousand feet, so clouds descend on these
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  Speaker 1: mountains quite a bit. But it was just really funny
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  Speaker 1: because it was a pretty nice, clear blue sky and
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  Speaker 1: I was like, all right, let's let's just do it.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go see this mountain. And then the next time
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  Speaker 1: I glanced out the window, crawboom, and there's lightning and
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  Speaker 1: thunder and a swirling cloud right war exactly where I
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  Speaker 1: was going to go with right around the tip of Peokle,
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, okay, I get it. And
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  Speaker 1: I took the hint and I got some smoked ribs
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  Speaker 1: and walked around the city instead. Don't worry, I went
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  Speaker 1: there soon after. And I will talk about that, but
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  Speaker 1: first let's talk about Halloween. My mom asked me if
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  Speaker 1: there was Halloween in Cusco, and I was like, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think so. I think they just do Day of
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  Speaker 1: the Dead. I was totally wrong. Everybody was dressed up.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't realize that. Of course I've never been here before,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, it was huge here. All of the kids
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  Speaker 1: were dressed up. I saw like a couple kids at
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  Speaker 1: five PM or something, and I was like, oh, wow,
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  Speaker 1: they do have Halloween here. I guess it's like kind
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  Speaker 1: of a thing because a few kids were dressed up,
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  Speaker 1: but not all of them. But then by eight pm,
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  Speaker 1: all the kids and half of the adults were in
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  Speaker 1: costume like straight. It just looked like any American US
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  Speaker 1: American city I had been to during Halloween. It was
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  Speaker 1: incredibly festive. It was very fun and the coolest thing.
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  Speaker 1: I saw this couple on my way home dressed as
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  Speaker 1: Hollow Night and Hornet, the protagonists of the two Hollow
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  Speaker 1: Night games. And they had made paper mache helmets and
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  Speaker 1: she had the Hornet dress and he had the Hollow
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  Speaker 1: Night garb with robes and the paper mache helmets looked awesome.
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  Speaker 1: They looked really cool. They were carrying the heads because
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  Speaker 1: it's hot to wear them. All the time and not
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  Speaker 1: safe when you're crossing the street as these folks were.
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  Speaker 1: But they were like size appropriate for the size of
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  Speaker 1: their bodies because they have big heads in the game,
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  Speaker 1: and it just they were so cool. So they let
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  Speaker 1: me take a picture of them, and I was so happy,
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  Speaker 1: and I mean very impressive considering those were homemade costumes.
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  Speaker 1: I mean they looked they looked really really good, like
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  Speaker 1: you would be. They looked cooler then if they were
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  Speaker 1: like plastic molded a Hollow Night and hornet Heads, because
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  Speaker 1: those games are all like crackly medieval post utopian era games,
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  Speaker 1: like everything's crumbling there. So the paper mache cracky texture
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  Speaker 1: just felt right at home with the whole games. And
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't even super noticeable because they painted it with
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  Speaker 1: bright white paint the masks. It looked great. It's just
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  Speaker 1: you can see the paper mache cracks and it fits
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  Speaker 1: the esthetic of those characters perfectly. It was so cool.
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  Speaker 1: So that was really impressive. And then all the kids
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  Speaker 1: were in cute costumes and everyone had the costumes were
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  Speaker 1: really impressive. It was a super cool Halloween. And I
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  Speaker 1: walked around just looking at people dressed up a lot,
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  Speaker 1: and then they still celebrated Day of the Dead, but
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  Speaker 1: Day of the Dead is usually celebrated in the morning here,
• 4:54
  Speaker 1: I guess is what I heard from Peruvian, So maybe
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  Speaker 1: that's why Halloween is popular, so they can party at night. Also,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of parties here, A lot of a lot
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  Speaker 1: of drunken parties here. I think I feel like I
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  Speaker 1: see people drinking and people hanging out a lot. I
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  Speaker 1: haven't been to any drunken parties here, especially now lately.
• 5:14
  Speaker 1: I've been sobering up lately, been all healthy lately. Found
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  Speaker 1: a new pizza place, My favorite pizza place of Cusco.
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  Speaker 1: Super super good dough, very soft, it's clear they let
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  Speaker 1: it sit for a long time so there's lots of
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  Speaker 1: air throughout all of it, very stretchy. The calzone is
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  Speaker 1: so good. The only problem is they put salchica sausage here,
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  Speaker 1: but they really it's like sliced up hot dogs, which
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  Speaker 1: is gross. But if you ask for no salchica, then
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  Speaker 1: you can skip the sliced hot dogs. The pizza ingredients
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  Speaker 1: are super fresh, the dough is super good. They still
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  Speaker 1: don't have enough sauce for my liking. They have very
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  Speaker 1: little sauce, to be honest. Tomato sauce. But the tomato
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  Speaker 1: sauce they do have is good and the ingredients are
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  Speaker 1: all good. So that's my pizza place that I go to.
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  Speaker 1: I've tried other ones. They all are more expensive and suck.
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  Speaker 1: That's the other thing. This place is cheaper than all
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  Speaker 1: the other places I've been to, and I have a
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  Speaker 1: sneaking suspicion it's because it's on the second floor, so
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  Speaker 1: they're making it cheaper for the people who do walk
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  Speaker 1: all the way to the second floor, because most restaurants
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  Speaker 1: are on the first and you have to go up
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  Speaker 1: the stairs to get to it. So maybe that's why
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  Speaker 1: it's cheaper. But it's definitely cheaper, and it's definitely better.
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  Speaker 1: It's definitely the best pizza dough I have had in
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  Speaker 1: this city. And I'm just not gonna try other pizza
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  Speaker 1: places anymore because I was curious if maybe there's a
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  Speaker 1: place with that good dough and better sauce, but there
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  Speaker 1: is not, and this place is already so good the
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  Speaker 1: dough itself, like you get a oh, you also get
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  Speaker 1: a free calzone with every pizza, and the calzone is
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  Speaker 1: so good it's not even worth it to keep trying
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  Speaker 1: these other pizza places that do not measure up because
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  Speaker 1: the dough, the.
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  Speaker 2: Dough is so good.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I was confused by this next part. I started
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  Speaker 1: writing a song about not getting dressed at home, not
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  Speaker 1: wearing clothes at home. I can't remember what the tune was.
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  Speaker 1: And you can't make me put any pants on. That's
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  Speaker 1: not Oh wait, that's not what private That was it.
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  Speaker 1: That's not what private apartments are for. I politely close
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  Speaker 1: my curtains and the lock is engaged on my door.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not wearing pants today or most of the other days.
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  Speaker 2: Two. If I wanted to be wearing pants, then I
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  Speaker 2: then I would be talking to you. Don't bother me
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  Speaker 2: with deliveries, don't step up to my property. I just
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  Speaker 2: want to be but naked today. Is that really so
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  Speaker 2: hard to believe?
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  Speaker 1: That was it? I think that's that's definitely a song
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  Speaker 1: by like Steel Panther or something thing that I'm that
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  Speaker 1: I'm stealing. You can't make me put any pants on.
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  Speaker 1: That's not what private apartments are. Four.
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  Speaker 2: I politely close my curtains and the lock is engaged
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  Speaker 2: down my door. That was it.
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  Speaker 1: So that's the song I'm writing about being butt naked
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  Speaker 1: in your own home. Button naked. Oh man, the world,
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  Speaker 1: the world can.
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  Speaker 2: Be pretty fun.
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  Speaker 1: Butt naked is so it's just funny, just funny saying
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  Speaker 1: butt naked. That's a funny turn of phrase. Oh, don't
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  Speaker 1: delete it, whoops, just delete it off the list. But
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  Speaker 1: I need to save that for the bank. Gotta put
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  Speaker 1: that in my song bank and actually try and make
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  Speaker 1: a song out of that. That'll be fun. Bank card.
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  Speaker 1: I found a bank card, a card from a bank,
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  Speaker 1: a debit card or credit card on a steep incline
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  Speaker 1: between two ridges when I did hike peakal So a
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  Speaker 1: couple days after the heavens cautioned me against climbing that
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  Speaker 1: highest peak with a quick bolt of lightning and a
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  Speaker 1: darkening of the clouds. I went up again on a
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  Speaker 1: nice day and there was a bunch of switchbacks and
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  Speaker 1: unconnected trails and all this stuff. And I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I can get to the switchback real quick if I
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  Speaker 1: just climb up this incline. And it was like, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, fifty feet and halfway up super steep incline,
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  Speaker 1: like I had to crawl up with my hands and knees,
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  Speaker 1: and halfway up I was just like looking down while
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  Speaker 1: I was scrambling up the hill and there was a
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  Speaker 1: bright blue debit card right there, and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: what the fluff? And so I got the debit card.
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  Speaker 1: Did I already talk about this? Sorry if I already
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  Speaker 1: talked about this, But it was very bizarre and I
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  Speaker 1: stared at it, but I was really tired from scrambling
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  Speaker 1: up this hill, so I did didn't look around more.
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  Speaker 1: But now I'm like, was there a body or a
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  Speaker 1: wallet or other stuff there? And I want to go
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  Speaker 1: back and check if there was, and I haven't yet.
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  Speaker 1: So then the next day I cleaned off the card,
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  Speaker 1: which was not expired yet. It was still ready to go,
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  Speaker 1: and I found the bank chain and went in there
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  Speaker 1: and gave the card to the security guard and he
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  Speaker 1: was kind of confused, and I was like, I found
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  Speaker 1: this on a mountain yesterday. He's like, okay, great, thanks,
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  Speaker 1: and gave it to someone at the counter. So that'd
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  Speaker 1: be cool. If I gave someone's card back to them
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: that they lost climbing the mountain or when they got
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  Speaker 1: beat up by the mafia and their possessions got beat
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  Speaker 1: out of them. That's that happens a lot. Okay. So
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  Speaker 1: I found this bank card that was pretty crazy. On
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  Speaker 1: the way down from the oh I made up to
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  Speaker 1: Pea Cole. It was super cool. To climb up to
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  Speaker 1: the top of it. I had to scramble up this
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  Speaker 1: dry river that was clearly if it like rained, that
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  Speaker 1: would flash flood really quick. But there was just this
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  Speaker 1: gravelly dry river, and there was other there were definitely
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  Speaker 1: other roots. But I tried climbing mountains. I tried climbing
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  Speaker 1: several routes and none of them worked. And then there
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  Speaker 1: was a river, kind of dry river leading up to
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  Speaker 1: the top, and I was just like okay, and I
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  Speaker 1: just scrambled up it for a couple hundred feet for
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  Speaker 1: like a long time. But I didn't have a pole
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  Speaker 1: with me, so I it was really steep, and I
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  Speaker 1: was like dangerous. If I fell down, I would be
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  Speaker 1: falling for two hundred feet down a mountain. It was stupid.
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  Speaker 1: And it got so dangerous at one point that I
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  Speaker 1: didn't make it completely to the peak, like I was
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  Speaker 1: grabbing handfuls of grass sticking out from this sheer side
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  Speaker 1: of the mountain. I slipped down a couple times but
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  Speaker 1: caught myself and I hadn't.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe fifty feet left to go till.
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  Speaker 1: Like the peak that I saw probably wasn't even the
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  Speaker 1: main peak. Every time I climb a mountain here there
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  Speaker 1: are higher mountains behind, or higher mountains a couple miles away.
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  Speaker 1: There's like it's the Andean Mountain. There are so many
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  Speaker 1: mountains here. But from the peak of Peak Hole that
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  Speaker 1: I could see from my house that everyone considers the
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  Speaker 1: one directly over LNK Cusco, I was like forty maybe
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  Speaker 1: even forty. I was pretty pretty close to the peak,
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  Speaker 1: but it was really dangerous to scramble up the remaining
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, I'm on the peak, I'm on
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  Speaker 1: the slope of the peak. That's pretty much. And I
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  Speaker 1: was fine. I took the win. I'm gonna try and
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  Speaker 1: go back up there actually to get to the peak
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  Speaker 1: peak and bring a pole with me, actually the pole
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  Speaker 1: of the mango grabber that I use as a dog
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  Speaker 1: walking stick. But I was happy with up there. The
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  Speaker 1: view was incredible. It was insane. That was a crazy,
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  Speaker 1: crazy hike. I reached my danger threshold, not having prepared
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  Speaker 1: for such a steep climb considering how many paths there
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  Speaker 1: generally are for these mountains, and I just chose to
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  Speaker 1: climb up the wrong dry Gravelly riverbed with no handholds
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  Speaker 1: or pathways or trails. But it was a super cool climb.
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  Speaker 1: And I still feel like I got to the peak
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  Speaker 1: because I was on the peak slope and it was
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  Speaker 1: an hour's long climb. It was a lot. I went
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  Speaker 1: all around. I didn't go on one trail either. I
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  Speaker 1: went on a whole bunch of trails up to peakle.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like the next time I go up there,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be a much faster climb because I'll just
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  Speaker 1: I won't feel the need to explore everything. I can
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  Speaker 1: just get up there. There was a family on their
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  Speaker 1: way down while I was on my way down from Peacole. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: there was a bunch of houses being built at the
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  Speaker 1: base of the mountain, and the guy asked if it
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  Speaker 1: was my house, because I looked like I was walking
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  Speaker 1: out of one of the houses and they were hanging
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  Speaker 1: out on the swing sets there, and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: oh no, I just happened to walk down the mound
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  Speaker 1: because I didn't know where any of the paths were.
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  Speaker 1: So when I came down and we talked for a bit,
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  Speaker 1: and they had very nice dogs, and the dogs followed
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  Speaker 1: me as I walked down, and I got to hoy
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  Speaker 1: doggy and scruff up their hair and say hello to
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: the dogs. On the way down the mountain, Oh, on
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  Speaker 1: the way up the mound, I saw a cool hat
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  Speaker 1: guy and his brother. Two brothers were hiking. I assumed
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: they were brothers. We didn't really talk about it, but
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  Speaker 1: one of them had a super cool Incan hat. The hats,
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: they have such good style here and all of the
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: like cool hiking hats kind of looked like Stetson's, like
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: cowboy hats, and then has had a band of geometric designs,
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  Speaker 1: multi coolored, like super bright geometric designs, the Incan designs,
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  Speaker 1: and then a couple feathers sticking out. They just look cool,
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: like the hat's all black, but there's a band of
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  Speaker 1: bright color and geometric design and then a couple cool,
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  Speaker 1: brightly colored feathers sticking out their traditional dress and their
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: modern dress. It's just cooler than most countries. Bright colors.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not into drab colors as much these days. I
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: have a black jacket, my shirts are black, but I
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: do have a white shirt and a purple shirt. I
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: like brighter colors these days, and Peruvians the super bright
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: colors matched with blocky geometric patterns, complex geometric patterns. It
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  Speaker 1: just clicks in my brain really well, all the different
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: colors and than cool geometric patterns, which I guess is
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  Speaker 1: typical of a lot of African fashion. Also, I gotta
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  Speaker 1: get down to Africa. So there's a cool family we talked.
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  Speaker 1: I got to play with their dog, Cool hack Guy
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  Speaker 1: his brother. I wrote, Cambodia glasses, which are the glasses
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  Speaker 1: I've had for the last decade that miraculously still functioned
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: very well for thirty dollars or whatever I spent. I
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: don't think any new development has happened. Yeah, I can't
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  Speaker 1: remember why I wrote down about my glasses. Oh. From
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  Speaker 1: cool hat Guy and his brother. I learned the correct
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: pronounce pronunciation of the mountain pea cool because I thought
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: it was pea call, and I was saying peak call
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  Speaker 1: to everyone when I asked them questions about climbing the mountain,
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: and I got some answers, but it was always difficult
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  Speaker 1: to explain to them the mountain I was talking about
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  Speaker 1: until I pointed it out or something, and then these
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: guys coming down, I said, is that how you say
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  Speaker 1: that pea call? He's like, you do you mean pea cool,
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: and I was like, Oh, Pia Cole, that's the name
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  Speaker 1: of it. Pea cool. I had just been pronouncing this
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: mountain name wrong for a very long time. Oh. I
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: changed the Lemmi community to be general travel because I've
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: been treating it like a blog, just sharing my travel
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: and I'm still just posting all the stuff that's happening
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: to me and Cusco and travel information in general, but
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: I'm posting more general travel information. And I changed the sidebar.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: I changed the title of the lemmy community to travel
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: instead of my username bit of a Rambler, so that
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: it was more general. And I changed the sidebar to
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: explicitly mentioned post here if you want to. Nobody has yet,
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: I don't think, but I changed it recently and now
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: I think more people are joining subscribing to it because
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: it's a general travel community, and I think I'm getting
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: more comments also on the posts, and I hope more
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: people join because so many Americans, US Americans especially are
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: complaining about how dire their financial state is. The people
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: are constant. I just had a just read a post
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: that said are there any good jobs that are easy
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: to get? And everyone who answered was a US American.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: There were probably twenty answers, and more than half of
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: them were sarcastic, like you can't blah blah blah, And
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: I was just like English teacher. You get up to
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: one hundred dollars per hour, you choose your own schedule,
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: you don't have to prep, you speak your native language.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: There's no requirements apart from speaking English, Like, yeah, there's
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: there is an easy job to get that by most
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: metrics people measure jobs by is a very good job.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: And so many US Americans are complaining about their cost
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: of living and they're again, they'll get like one hundred responses,
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: and most of them are sarcastic, being like, Yep, it sucks.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: That's my life. Been doing it for forty years. There's
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: no way around it. And I just want to tell
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: them all, you just get a plane ticket, you fly
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: to one hundred other countries at least, and you will
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: be paying ten percent of what you're paying now in
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: the States. What am I paying? The average in the
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: States is like sixteen hundred USD a month now for
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: a tiny apartment. I have a three bedroom, two bath
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: for less than three hundred dollars right now, so I'm
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: paying less than twenty percent for a much better housing situation,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: and anyone can do this. This is public prices. I'm
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: not getting deals. I'm just using Airbnb. So I just
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: want to make the LEMMI community general, to make this
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: information that I'm already sharing more accessible to everyone. I
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: want people to feel comfortable asking for help from traveling.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: I keep thinking maybe I should name it traveling and
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Living Abroad, but I don't know if I want a
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: more complicated name like that. And also traveling and living
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: abroad they're the exact same thing, like the only difference
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: is duration, but it's not even duration because once you
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: are traveling, you are living abroad, and when you're living abroad,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: you're traveling in places. So I don't I don't know
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: if I should make that clear in the name of
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: the community, traveling and Living abroad. What do you think
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: if you are listening to this and you think that
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: would make people more likely to engage if it was
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: traveling and Living abroad as the title instead of just
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: travel for the community, let me know, I'll be curious
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: what you think, because yeah, it'll be right there. So
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: maybe people will ask about what's the difference between traveling
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: and living abroad and I can explain there's no difference. Okay,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: what's been happening. The guy I have been helping move
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: abroad the past couple months has moved. He's in El Salvador.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Very exciting someone moved abroad and is making a go
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: of it. Certainly his money is taking him farther than before.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: I should mention he did get into an altercation with police,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: and one of the last things I said is don't
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: get into altercations with police. Don't get into altercations while
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: you are traveling. You are a guest in a country.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Laws are the exact same as in the US. If
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: if the police officer likes you, you don't get in trouble.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: If the police officer doesn't like you, you get in trouble.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: In the US, and this guy's from the US, and
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: if you go to any other country, the laws are
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: the exact same. If the police officer likes you, you're fine.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: If the police officer doesn't like you, you're in trouble.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what the actual law is. And this
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: guy sent me a photo of himself getting into an
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: altercation with a police officer, and I was like, no,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: We just talked about this several days ago. Luckily he
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: didn't get in too much trouble and he moved on
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: to a new city. He was talking about his options,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: and I was like, different city is probably a good idea.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: If you got into a fight, not a fight, but
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: like if you started stepping up to a police officer
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: and got in his face, probably a good idea to
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: be safe and just get to a different town. Don't
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: be positive, folks, don't start stuff. And just when you're traveling,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: you're an ambassador to all other travelers. And the reason
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: your life is so great traveling abroad, things are so
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: cheap is because of the value of the country you
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: are in. So whatever upsets you, you have to look
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: at it from their perspective. The the perspective of the
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: locals is far more important and relevant than your own
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: perspective as a traveler. As a traveler, you should be learning,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: but above all, you should be respectful of the place
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: you're in because, especially for US US Americans, the fact
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: that we're able to live in these countries and the
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: cost of living is so much cheaper, and we can
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: speak English fluently, so we have literally guaranteed jobs at
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: twenty times fifty times more than the average person is
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: making in that country. You just can't literally fifty times.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: It's what they make two hundred bucks a month in Peru,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: and you can make ten thousand dollars a month as
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: an English speaker in China. That's fifty times as much money.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: You're so privileged, especially you English speakers and you US Americans.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Please understand that if you are traveling and instantly your
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: life is so much better, you don't deserve it. You
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: don't deserve this life. There's another place where your money
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: will go farther, and you should respect that circumstance that
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: you are fortunate enough to be able to move into.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: You deserve to change your circumstances. Everybody does, and I
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: talk about that a lot, that you're able to, but
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: you don't. You not owed any of this. You're just
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: another monkey on the surface of this planet, like me,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: and we're all here briefly, and none of us are
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: given anything. We were just lucky enough to be born
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: fluent English speakers with good passports from a wealthier country,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: and so we get to live in a bunch of places.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: I will say I think passports are misunderstood. Most countries.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: You can go to way more than one hundred countries
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: visa free travel. Like people seem to think that the
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: US passport is very powerful, it's good, but most passports
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: are very powerful. Most passports are about as powerful as
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: all other passports. You can go to more countries with
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: some passports, but it's not a crazy amount more. It's anyway,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: travelers very fortunate. Don't mess with locals. You're lucky to
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: be there. Learn from them, and if they're doing something
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: you disagree with, walk away. You do not tell them
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: that they are doing something wrong. If it's their culture,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: If they're treating you a certain way, and nobody is
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: acting like it's weird that they're treating you a certain way,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: that's probably how they treat people in that country. You
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: do not have to like it, but you're not. You
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: have no right to change how they treat people in
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: their country, and you're not going to change them anyway.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: That is how they act, that is their culture. Whatever
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: it is. They don't pay enough attention to you, or
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: they pay too much attention to you because you don't
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: look like them, whatever it is. If it really bothers,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: you leave. There's another two hundred countries to go check out.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Plenty of them will completely disregard you. If that's the problem.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Half the time, if you're getting singled out, they're curious
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: because there's not a lot of foreigners where you are,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: so you've got to see things from their perspective. It's
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: not fair to expect a country to change its culture
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: to suit your sensibilities. Flow flow in that river of
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: international travel. Learn and appreciate. And this is not directed
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: specifically at that new traveler. Now I'm telling this to
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: all people who want to travel. It makes life so
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: much easier too. It makes travel so much more enjoyable.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: If every time something happens you don't understand, you're saying,
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: what is the perspective in which this makes sense? What
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: is the cultural perspective in which this makes sense? Why
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: pick up rocks for those dogs? Why is there halloween
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: in Cusco? As long as you're trying to see things
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: from their perspective, you don't even have to know why.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: You don't have to figure out the answer. As long
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: as when you are curious about something, you come from
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: their perspective, the culture you are traveling within, things make
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: a lot more sense. You don't need to put everything together,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: but it's like, okay, so they do have Halloween and
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Day of the Dead in their culture. That's another puzzle
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: piece of this culture. It becomes a game of learning
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: instead of a game of well, that's not how I
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: think things should operate. Which if you if you think
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: like that, and you're going to be very unhappy traveling.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: That's the main problem. Everybody I know who has had
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: trouble with traveling has gone to a new country and thought,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: that's not how I think people should act, and I
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: will change them.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: That is.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: That's some don Quixote stuff.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: That is.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: That is some windmill tilting. That is staring at a
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: mountain and being upset that the mountain is not where
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: you think the mountain should be. The world it's set,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: it works in ways. It's changing all the time. But
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: don't be upset because apples are red or green, like
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: that's just the color that apples are.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: It's fine.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: You think apples should be blue, that's okay, but they're not,
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: and that's okay. Acceptance, empathy, and tolerance is key to
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: travel and key to living even if you're not traveling.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: It just makes life so much more simple if you
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: acknowledge that other people have valid perspectives as well.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: Well.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Soapbox Step Down four Lunch Afternoon. I've been having a
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: lot of lunches lately because the food here is so
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: effing good. I love Peruvian food. I had four lunches
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: this week, and then I did it again the next day.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: I had four lunches several days this week because there
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: were a bunch of new dishes. I thought I had
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: tried like more than half of all the dishes here,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: and then that last week maybe I read more or
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: I just realized. I was like, maybe the stews are different,
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: and the stews are all different, and I tried, Yeah,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: I tried a whole bunch of different stuff, and it's
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: all great. It's all great. The food here is so good,
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: and there's so many different good dishes. There are more
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: different good dishes in Peru than there are in other
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: countries I have been too recently. Certainly Panama, there are
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: more local Peruvian dishes in a greater range than there
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: are local Panamanian dishes in a great range. Way more
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: than Guatemala, for sure, definitely more than Colombia. Columbia had
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: a lot, but I don't know Peru. It just feels
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: the foods feel so distinct. Even if they're different stews,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: you're just like, ah, that is a different dish altogether.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: Even the States, I mean, I can't really The States
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: is such a hodgepodge. It'd be difficult for me to
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: say what American food is hamburgers, what's some American food?
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: What is American food? I always think of American food
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: as just all other countries food all together. So we
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: have a lot of variety that way. But in terms
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: of native food, well, I guess if we go back
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: to actual Native Americans, we have like flatbread and stuff
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: and what's that animal fat mixed thing that's getting hipster
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: popular these days. Anyway, Peruvians have a stunning variety of
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: distinct dishes that are super fricking tasty. I got high
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: elevation sushi. I had an amazing talk because turns out
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: sushi in Peru comes with soy sauce and a sweet liquid.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: I didn't know what the sweet liquid was, and so
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: I asked the guy next to me, and he was like,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: that's honey, and I was like, boba. Turns out they
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: in Peru they give you honey with your sushi. That's cool.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: I tried it. It's good. I still like soy sauce better,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: but honey is great and it's not a bad accompaniment
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: to most things I've had it with, including sushi now,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: So my sushi wasn't bad. I was curious about trying
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: high elevation sushi and it wasn't bad. But the reason
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: the strip was so cool to the sushi restaurant was
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: because I met Jeremy, the man who told me, yes,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: in Peru they serve honey with sushi. Because he not
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: only told me about that, he told me about glaciers, mountains, lakes,
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: all these crazy things that I was unaware of were
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: so accessible to me to visit. He told me about
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Lake Sinrana Kocha, which became sing Rena Kocha, which became
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: my focus kind of an obsession these past couple of
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: weeks because there was huge glacier mountains behind this incredibly
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: turquoise lake, and it was just I ended up going there.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: I'll talk about that later down this list, maybe the
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: next episode. But he gave me so many places to visit,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: and I visited some of them and we talked for
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: like two hours in the sushi restaurant, just trading stories
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: and travel store. I had been to ruins, he hadn't
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: been to in Cusco yet, and I show him some pictures.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: I was like, this one's right there, and this is
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: clearly a real ink and ruin because the stones are
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: huge and they fit perfectly together. And then he showed
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: me pictures of him visiting a glacier. Just so many.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: We had so many stories to trade. It was really
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: cool talk. And when I was leaving the restaurant, I
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: was in front of him in line, and I was like,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: should I pay for him? But my Spanish isn't good
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: enough to ask the lady? Can I pay for him?
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: Except I realized it was fine. I could have asked,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: and then I didn't, but I was I wanted. I
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: wish I had paid for him because he gave me
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: so much good information and I would have liked to
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: buy him his sushi, but uh, I didn't, So I
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: gotta be more take more initiative next time. I was
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: just nervous about speaking Spanish. But I shouldn't have been
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: such a wooz, such a frickin woos. Anyway, Thanks Jeremy.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: He gave me a experience by telling me about Lake
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: Singerna Kocha and me eventually finding it that I'm gonna
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: remember for the rest of my life. It was amazing,
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: and I'll talk about that in a bit. I had
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: terrible sushi afterward. The sushi was so not great but
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: decent that I was like, I should try other sushis
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: in Cusco because that one wasn't bad. And then I
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: went to this other restaurant and I got smoked sauce
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: something sushi, and the smoked sauce ugh. I just shuddered,
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: like visibly in the real world. My body actually shuddered
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: because of how disgusting the memory of this sushi sauce was.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: It was the worst sauce I've ever had on sushi,
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: and as a dish. It was because of that sauce
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: the worst sushi I have ever had. It was horrifying.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: The smoke sauce was so strong, there was so much
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: of it. I tried to be polite and I bought
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: some sake and I just drank as much of that
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: as I could to burn the smoke off of my tongue,
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: which didn't work. After the whole caraffe, I could still
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: taste the devil sauce, Oh so gross on my tongue,
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: and I was like, thank you so much. I have
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: to get it to go though, and I had eaten
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: three of like ten pieces, and the beginning I was like,
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: I can do this. By second piece, I was like,
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: I will throw up if I eat more of this,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: And I took it outside and I threw it on
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: the side of the road for the dogs a couple
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: streets later. Like I pretended, I was excited to take
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: it home, but it was. It was the most disgusting sauce.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: Oh so much smoky flavor. Disgusting, disgusting. Maybe their other
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: roles are fine. I'm never going back to that restaurant again.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: I will say the okay one, the one that was
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: just like regular, boring, not great sushi, but not bad sushi.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: If you really need some sushi, mister Sushi, that place
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: was fine. I don't want to say the name of
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: the terrible one because maybe their other stuff is good,
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: but that smoked sauce true, and that place for me,
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: ruined the entire sushi scene in Cusco for me, which
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: is fine. It's eleven thousand feet I'm not expecting amazing sushi.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: That's why mister Sushi was surprising. It wasn't bad considering
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: high elevation sushi, okay, so thank you Jeremy screw you
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: smoked sauce sushi. Then I had great raw men and
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: Japanese karag from a Japanese restaurant in Kusko called Umi,
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: which I can recommend unreservedly. The raw Men dish. That's
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: probably the one to go if I don't really like
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: deep fried foods. So this karag was perfect. It was
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: as good as any karag I have had in Japan.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: But I don't like karag a super lot. But this
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: karag was very good and I devoured it. So if
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: you like it, definitely get it. But for me, the
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: most impressive dish is the raw Men. They have good
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: not convenience store noodles, which is an important first start,
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: and they have pretty thick, sligh iced, well prepared pork,
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: soft boiled egg, always soft boiled nori, a few pieces
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: of nori in there, which is fantastic, and Chinese cabbage,
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: some kind of cabbage mixed up. It's just the food.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: I was shocked the ramen tastes, the stock, the raman
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: stock especially, I don't know, it tastes authentic to me.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: It tastes like Japanese ramen stock and the whole restaurant
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: is so cool. In Umai, they have Miyazaki paintings everywhere
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: and figurines everywhere, and Japanese music videos are playing. It
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: feels like you enter into a little pocket of Japan
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: in Kusko and yeah, there's wooden furniture. It's all very Japanese.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: It's fantastic, and the food tastes extremely authentically Japanese, more
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: so than any restaurant I've been to outside of Japan
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: since Panama. The sushi restaurants were really good, but it
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: didn't feel exactly jib It felt more fusion. This place
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: felt like a Japanese restaurant. Every other Japanese restaurant that
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: I have really liked, that sushi place in Panama amazing.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: Miyagi sushi is still my Favorite's so good, but that
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: was a fusion restaurant. This place, they have five things
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: on the menu and they are made in the Japanese
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: style of cooking and they taste real good. I've been
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: back for the ra Men I think two more times,
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: and back for a Domebri once, but the Dombri was
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: just not as exciting. It was just rice and then
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: good taraaki chicken on top. But the ramen is so
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: exciting and has everything in the broth is so rich.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: It's just a much more exciting dish for me. If
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: you were in Cusco. Oh my, oh, my goodness, it's
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: so good. And they fry stuff. Well, I haven't tried
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: their cotsuit. Maybe I should just try it, but I
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: don't like Japanese cotsu that much. I just don't like
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: deep fried stuff that much. Except isn't there something deep
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: fried I've been Oh, I've been eating piccorone so much lately.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: Which are these fantastic fried squash and sweet potato dough
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: rings deep fried? But I think I finally hit my
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: I've had enough of that because I eat him like
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: ten days in a row. They're so freaking good. Oh.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: The next thing is the cop confrontation I was talking
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: about earlier. The guy gotta tell Salvador and then like
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: a few it was a few days and he asked
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: me specifically about cops, and I was like, just if
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: they like you, it's just like in the United States.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: If they like you, you're fine. If they don't like you,
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: you're in trouble. So be nice, try to see things
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: from their perspective. If it doesn't good, just leave the area.
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: He didn't confrontation. He was really worried. He's in a
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: different city now, hopefully doing well. Hope you're doing well, buddy,
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: if you're listening to this. It's been a week since
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: I talked to him. But he felt very quickly, which
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: is how everybody is. He got used to the traveling
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: thing in the first week he landed. He started exploring.
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: He was like, whoa, this rocks and now he's a travelers.
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: It's wild how quickly you become a traveler by traveling.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: Once you start doing it, that's it. You are one
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: and everything you do, every single thing you do with
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: a learning experience, and you're just going to get better
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: at traveling. It just gets easier and more things will
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: be available to you. I wish the best for that guy,
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: and I think he even learned from getting in a
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: CoP's face. I've done things like that. I've fought back
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: against the culture and circumstances that were giving me so
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: much that I was learning so much from that, I
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: was deriving so much benefit from I've definitely been like, well,
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: that's not how I think the world should work. That's
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: that's how things work. Once you once you are living
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: in a new lifestyle, once you're living in a new world,
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: once you're living in a new perspective, your old habits
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: and your old perspectives war for relevance because it's so clear.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: It's so clear living abroad, how unimportant the way you
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: think the world works is. It just doesn't matter. There
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: are two hundred countries. There are states in every country, provinces,
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: every town has a different culture. It doesn't matter how
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: you think the world works, because that is true. It
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: is how the world works, and it is also completely
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: fall It is not how the world works. If you're
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: in your town, then maybe you understand a lot about
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: how the world works when you're there. As soon as
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: you're not there, you don't understand how the world works.
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: But everybody around you does, and so you should always
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: be trying to think from their perspective and respect their differences.
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: That'll make it easier to understand how the world works
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: in other places if you treat their cultures on the
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: same level as you hold your own culture and esteem. Anyway,
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: that was a couple hours in this guy's life. It's over.
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: It seemed like he had he learned from it, as
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: I have many times before. I have made all of
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: these mistakes, so many times, and so many more mistakes.
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: Whenever I'm on my soapbox or whenever I'm talking about
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: these things, I'm trying to communicate a way for people
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: to more seamlessly appreciate the world around them, because I
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: have learned to appreciate the world around me by walking
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: into walls and stubbing my toe and doing stupid things
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: that did not help me time and time again. Because
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: I learn by smashing my head against a rock, and
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: I know I'm not going to break, so I keep
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: doing it. I try never to hurt other people, but
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: I don't mind smacking my head against a wall until
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: it knocks some sense into me, because I know I
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: will eventually learn a lesson. And now I can help
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: people skip smacking their head against a wall. I can
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: tell them that they don't have to go down all
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: those wrong paths. They don't have to insist on the
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: importance of their culture. They don't have to make themselves
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: hike if they don't like to hike. For traveling, there's
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: a lot of shortcuts. I feel like I can help
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: people with because I have gone through this for so long,
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: So never think I'm talking from a perspective of I
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: figured all this out from day one. I didn't. I
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: have figured a bunch of stuff out about traveling now
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: that makes life much easier. And I can just tell
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: people the way to make their lives easier rather than
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: watching them frustrate themselves any more than they have to.
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: That's a learning process. Sometimes you will bash your head
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: against the wall of frustrate. Get frustrated, yeah, and you'll
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: learn from it. But if I can help people get
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: passed that quicker to the Nirvanic bliss of just living
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: abroad and not having to do anything you don't want
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: to do. Yeah, I want to do that. I posted
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: about Form two five five five IRS Form two five
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: five five in which US Americans living abroad for more
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: than three hundred and thirty days out of the year
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: do not have to pay the first one hundred twenty
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: five thousand dollars worth of income tax. So if you
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: live abroad more than three hundred thirty days out of
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: the year, you don't have to pay up to one
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: hundred twenty five thousand dollars Roughly per year to the IRS.
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: You just fill out form two five five five takes
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: fifteen minutes. People were very excited about this this post.
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: I have posted it before and nobody cared and they
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: talked crap about it and doubted it basically, and I
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: just kept posting like, well, this is the IRS direct
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: link to that form and the explanation of it, and
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: this time people were into it. So I'm pretty happy
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: about that because that was a very successful post for
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: the travel community in general, and a lot of people
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: had a lot of questions, and because I'm so familiar
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: with the form and I've been using it for so long,
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: I was able to answer all of their questions. And
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: quite a few people were pretty excited to find out
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: they didn't have to pay taxes as long as they
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: went and lived abroad, lived outside of a country they
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: didn't want to be living in anyway. A lot of
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: US Americans are pretty dissatisfied living in the US right now,
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: and I was like, great, choose one of these one
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty hundred eighty countries to go live it instead,
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: and you also don't have to pay taxes as a bonus.
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: They were into that. It was a very successful. It
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: was one of the most successful threads in the community
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: until until I just posted the wallpaper from Umai, that
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: Japanese restaurant. I'm talking about it. It's that meme of
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: the two women. There's like the woman pointing and screaming
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: and then her friend holding her back, and then the
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: opposite picture is just a cat squinting at the lady
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: screaming at them. This is like done in the old
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: Japanese art style. I can't remember the name of it,
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: and it's two Japanese ladies. It's the exact same meme,
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: it's just with old Japanese style instead of the photo.
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: And it was really funny on the AMIA wall and
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: I was excited to see it, so I took a
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: picture and posted it.
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: And I think.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: That's the highest. There's so much valuable travel information and
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: relevant specifically to a lot of the posts on LEMI like,
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: how can I live outside of the US, And is
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: there any job where I can make a decent living?
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: And I post that information and they'll get like twenty
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: up votes maybe, and then I post this cat mem
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty up votes in a day, like
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: just people were smashing that like button. It was really
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: funny to see that, and it was great because I
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: got a few more not a ton, but I got
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: a few more subscribers to the community. And the more
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: people that join, the more people that comment, the more
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: engagement there is, and the more people I'm getting more
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: questions about traveling and engagement. I think people are learning
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: that there is now an active travel community on Lemmy,
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: which there hasn't been. I that's part of the reason
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: I didn't make a travel community for Lemmy, because there
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: are probably a dozen different travel communities. So when I
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: made mine, I was like, well, this will just be
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: my travel blog and if anybody asked questions, I'll answer them.
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: But I realized recently that all those travel communities are dead. Nobody.
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: People are asking questions, but they are getting unhelpful answers
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: not related to travel. Someone will ask like, has anyone
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: heard if I traveled to this East German town what
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: the transportation is like? And some idiot will just write
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: German's good trains or which if you're in Germany. Germans
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: don't like their trains very much. They're not as happy
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: with their train infrastructure as US American culture would lead
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: you to believe if you were unfamiliar with German trains.
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: I think they're right, but German people don't really like
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: their trans very much. What was I talking about the community? Yeah,
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: so they'll just get a bunch of dumb responses that
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: do not answer their question. And for a while I
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: answered the question. I would go on to these other
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: travel communities and answer, but those it it just wasn't
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: very fun because it was dead. So if there was
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: a question, I could help them. But they're all in
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: different dead communities asking these questions. So I was like,
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: this is great because I don't want to blog anyway.
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: What I want is a travel community. I want people
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: interested in travel, sharing their travels, asking questions about travel,
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: and helping other people who want to travel. Because I
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: haven't been to every country. If someone asked me anything
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: about the fifty sixty countries in Africa, I can answer
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: nothing unless it's about Morocco. So I'm hoping that when
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: this travel community gets bigg in enough, there will be
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: people ready to answer questions about the other one hundred
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: and fifty countries that I have not been to. And
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: you know what, it's really fun too. I'm posting information.
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: Oh I didn't write about that. Another exciting post that
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: got some traction recently was medical Care Abroad, and one
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: lem Me user got very upset because they're in the
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: US healthcare world, and so they took it very personally
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: that the US is not ranked very high in terms
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: of quality of healthcare anymore, and those are just rankings.
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: Like the US, it's still pretty high. I think a
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: lot of that is legacy, but it's still like fifteenth
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: in the world. Thailand is much higher than the US
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: now in terms of quality of care equipment pretty much
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: every single category, accuracy of reports, cost of course, Thailand
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: vastly out ranks the US these days. They that's what
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: the rankings are now. But this person got very angry
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: about that, and that's why I made the post though.
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: I wanted people who were maybe unaware of the actual
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: health rankings around the world to become aware of them,
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: and a lot of people were interested, and I guess
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: technically this person was interested too, just quite negatively. But
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: that's okay. New information is upsetting to people, just like
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: traveling is upsetting to people. Moving out of your house
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: for the first time, moving away from her parents is
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: upsetting to a lot of people. It's just changing situations.
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: Seeing things from different perspectives upsets people because we put
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: so much effort into maintaining our perspectives and the things
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: we tell ourselves that once you realize there that your
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: perspective is only as valid as any other perspective, it
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: can be because it means that your world, the world
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: you live in, is not as concrete as one would
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: like it to be. It means that everything your basis
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: of knowledge for living is not infallible. It can fall
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: apart at any moment. People get so upset about politics
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: because it seems to me because they tell themselves this
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: is politics, this is what it's like, and then something
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: changes and they're like, whoa, that's not politics. That's incorrect,
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: and that makes them really angry. But that's what politics is.
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: It's changing all the time. People have different opinions, and
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: then someone with a different opinion gets in office, and
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: like Trump, they dismantle an important social program like USAID,
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: and sixty children start dying every hour. That's happening, by
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: the way, sixty kids are dying every hour because of
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: Trump dismantling USAID roughly and thirty vulnerable adults yesh Let's
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: not end on that. Let's end on poma konchi cheese.
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: It's my favorite Peruvian cheese. I tried a few of them.
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: Pomakonchi is the best. I gotta get some more poma
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: kanchi because it's really good and I can chop it
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: into little bits to mix in with my go gopa
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: minced vegetable salad. Gives it a little bit of salt
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: and a little bit of tasty protein and a little
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: more texture. So I gotta yeah, I gotta get some
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: more poma kanchi there. Poma konchi is good to end on.
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: It's a cool word too. Oh, I wanted to mention
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: because I didn't write that down Quetchua. So like half
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: of the words here, like poma kanchi or singerna kocha.
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: So many of the words here are in Quetchua, which
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: is such a cool language. There's so many kah and
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: chaz and chochi, kats and cool just cool sounds. So
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: it's really fun traveling to places and trying all these
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: foods because half the time I get to speak in Quetchua,
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: which is really cool. So poma kanchi to you, all
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: that means have good travel. I'm just kidding. It doesn't.
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: I don't know it's the name of the cheese. I
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: think it's just the town that that cheese is from.
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: I think there's a town called Poma Kanchi that makes cheese.
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: If you want to travel, please talk to me. If
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: you have questions about travel, but you don't want to travel,
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: talk to me. If you just want to talk, talk
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: to me bit of a Rambler at gmail dot com,
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: bit of a Rambler on Lemmy and Blue Sky. I
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: will answer you. I have a lot of time to
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: do that, and I think it's fun sharing this information,
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: and especially if you have specific travel questions. I am
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: very excited to share travel information. So I hope your
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: day is going awesome. Mine is going cool. Maybe I'll
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: climb a mountain in a few hours. Thank you so
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: much for listening. Have a great rest of your day.