Que paso...
In and around World
In July 2004 I embarked on a solo back-packing adventure through Central and South America, New Zealand, Australia and, briefly, S.E Asia. This journal is a collection of emails sent home to friends and family throughout the year long adventure...
Route taken and entries by Real Traveler Stephan Brown
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Fire Hydrant Incident in Brooklyn!
Hello!! Well here it is, the first of my fascinating travel updates! Well, i haven't actually started backpacking yet, as i've spent the past 10 days... Continue reading » -
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Mexico!
Hello! I´ve been backpacking in Mexico for a couple of weeks now & it´s fun! Landed in Mexico City in the middle of a downpour, which was a sign of th... Continue reading » -
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Guatemala & Shotguns...
Last time i emailed, i was in San Cristobal - Mexico.. I ended up staying there for a few more days, went on a boat trip to an amazing 1000m high Cany... Continue reading » -
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Hurtling through Central America
O.K, gonna try and keep this short and sweet... Am in Costa Rica at the moment, after spending a week diving in the Caribbean Bay Islands of Honduras... Continue reading » -
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Adiós Central America!!
Last time I wrote i'd been in Costa Rica a few days near Volcan Arenal. After Arenal I went to a few places on the Pacific & Caribbean coasts of Costa... Continue reading » -
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Bom Dia sou Rio!
Well i´ve been in South America & Brazil now for 3 weeks. Spent my first week in Rio de Janeiro - the City of God. First impressions of Brazil, after... Continue reading » -
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Beautiful Bahia
Left Rio a couple of weeks ago and headed up to the sunshine state of Bahia. To give you an idea of how big Brazil is, it´s a near 30hr coach ride fro... Continue reading » -
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Southern Brazil..
After Bahia travelled back down to the south of Brazil, visited the island Ilhe Grande for a couple of days & then went to the island of Florianopolis... Continue reading » -
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Salta Province
After visiting the Argentinian side of Iguassu – which by the way is somehow even more impressive than the Brazilian side - I jumped on a 27 hour bus... Continue reading » -
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Vineyard Territory
After Salta I jumped on a bus to Mendoza in Argentina´s wine-making region, right next to the Andes (Brad Pitt´s Seven Years in Tibet was filmed nearb... Continue reading » -
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Feliz Navidad de Buenos Aires!
Well, i´m finally in Buenos Aires for Christmas after nearly 4 weeks travelling around northern Argentina... After Salta and Mendoza, visited Cordo... Continue reading » -
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Patagonian Wonders
Dad came in mid Dec to spend Xmas with me & so I took him down to the mountains, great lakes & glaciers of Patagonia in the southern Andes. Went to se... Continue reading » -
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Deja Vu...
Before he left for an English new year, I quickly took him up to Iguassu to see the falls, which was great to see again.. I don´t think it´s possible... Continue reading » -
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Festering in B.A
Well, I have, literally, been festering in B.A... it´s been so unbelievably hot & humid (34/93degrees most days), that we´ve been laying around like b... Continue reading » -
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"Deepest Darkest Peru"
Anywayz, after the oppressive heat of B.A, I flew into a place called Arequipa, in southern Peru.. saw a couple of 500yr old sacrificed ice-mummies in... Continue reading » -
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Marching Powder
I´m now in Bolivia, after enduring a bus journey that started with the driver banging the crap out the engine & which continued with an elderly woman... Continue reading » -
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Carnival and CoLUMbia!!
Since I last wrote, i´ve been to the Bolivian Amazon, hunted bare-foot for anacondas, celebrated Carnival in Oruro-Bolivia (where the whole par-taay i... Continue reading » -
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Romancing the Stone
On the Caribbean coast I visited the town of Cartegena, which has the prettiest, most well presented & looked after colonial old town i´ve seen in all... Continue reading » -
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Middle Earth
So after 8 months, I finally left the Spanish-speaking world & flew off to "Middle Earth." Landed in Auckland (NZ) and hopped straight on a bus to Wai... Continue reading » -
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Down Under
Been in Oz for 6wks now, spent 5wks on & off in Melbourne, basically hanging out. Was looking for a bar-job on my 1st afternoon, then gave up on the i... Continue reading » -
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The Home Straight...
Well, i'm finally almost home... Since last I wrote 5wks ago, i've left Oz - but not before a heavy Rum & Coke night down on Bondi with Cian unti... Continue reading »

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