My day with Vanessa
Trip Start
Oct 19, 2007
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Trip End
Ongoing
Montevideo,
Uruguay
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Best trash can ever - Montevideo
. The funny thing is sheīs like a 20 year old Goth chick who speaks Spanish which is about a 180 degree turnaround from my 32 year old English speaking very non Goth ass. You couldnīt find two more different people if you tried. She is wearing the shortest fucking plaid skirt I have ever seen and it keeps blowing up in the wind which is sort of sexy but like I said she is Goth and therefore very white. She does have nice legs though and a certain sex appeal which probably stems from a certain innocent sluttiness quality that she has about her. The bad thing about the skirt blowing in the wind is the fact that she has to keep holding it down so every dude in Montevideo canīt see her shit which greatly slows us up as she canīt do that and carry her bag at the same time. This annoys me a bit and Iīm starting to regret letting her come with me. I end up just carrying her fucking bag - like mine isnīt enough. She canīt read a map for shit and it makes me wonder how she even made it to Uruguay in the first place. As we are walking I see another hostel and I want to stop in to see if they have rooms but she wants to keep walking to the place recommended by the other hostel. Well of course you donīt mind walking because you arenīt carrying two bags weighing 70+ pounds. Another good reason not to travel with others. Why do you think the other hostel will be any better than this one and this one is right here. Anyways we finally arrive to the designated hostel and at least itīs really nice and we get a room all to ourselves unless of course someone else checks in later
Cathedral - Montevideo
. We hit the town and walk around for 6 hours or so checking out everything. We actually have quite a bit of fun together despite the language barrier and she is slowly starting to loosen up and laugh more at my antics. She was very shy and tentative at first and kept saying that I acted like a little kid and acted annoyed, which is of course true but she ended up laughing at most of the stuff as th day wore on. Montevideo is a cool city, especially Ciudad Viejo (the old city). The city is very clean and features a lot of town squares and people are out wondering around all over the place. The old buildings are impressive and there are huge monuments everywhere, and not to mention all the stores. SA seems to have so many stores but I think itīs because they donīt really have 1 stop shopping so you may have to go to 4 or 5 stores whereas in America you may just have to go to 1. I take some pretty sweet pictures (one of a garbage can lid with no garbage can which cracked me up especially as I kept trying to throw a water bottle away in it, one of Rocky Balboa on the side of a building and the best picture of all - I found a homeopathic store that had a huge sign in the window and I had Vanessa hold the camera so that "pathic" was cut from the view and then I stood on this ledge with my head in front of the "e" so you just see me in front of a sign that says "HOMO", I was laughing my ass off at this and was pretty proud of myself for thinking it up)
Funniest picture I have ever taken - Montevideo
. Vanessa dresses in all black and has on black sunglasses so somewhere during the day I start calling her Trinity (after the Matrix Trinity of course). Get some food and some beers at this outside bar/restaurant joint next to this plaza along a tree lined pedestrian street with cool looking buildings rising above us on a perfect summerīs day and I am completely content and happy. I think Trinity gets a bit drunk though as she starts giving me shit back and starts flipping me off on a regular ocassion. Perfect. Get back to hostel and she meets these 3 Swiss dudes because she saw them smoking and she wanted a cigarette. I take a shower while she smokes or whatever and when she ends up getting out of her shower she is freezing since the water wasnīt very warm and I actually have to hold her in order to warm her up and now I really do feel like I am her protector but at the same time I sort of feel like we had a connection of some sort. We end up going out with the 3 Swiss dudes and 2 of them are really cool but the old bald guy isnīt and he keeps hitting on Trinity (btw, they love that her nickname is Trinity) and he is doing a pretty good job too as he speaks fluent Spanish. We get to a bar and they are sitting across from each other talking it up in Spanish and I donīt really like it. Not sure why. I mean surely I donīt like this girl but maybe itīs because I feel like Iīm supposed to protect her and watch out for her and the last thing I want is some old ugly ass Swiss dude picking her up
Me and Trinity - Montevideo
. At one point they sort of hold hands and I knew that was it. I start talking to the other Swiss dudes and Trinity and Kojak end up going outside and making out and I donīt like it one bit, such a weird feeling. The one Swiss guy was telling me that one time he was smoking weed outside of his house and his mom came out and shrieked "why are you destroying you", hah, moms. Anyway, we bounce various humorous stories back and forth and we all end up going to this other bar and the night starts to become much more fun even though I still donīt dig the Trinity n Baldy connection. I end up meeting a Brazilian girl and oh Thank God, Portuguese. How I miss thee. But itīs loud inside the bar and once again loud music, me and a foreign language go together about as well as US Banks and Mortgage Backed Securities or Charles Manson and the Tate family. Trinity and the skinhead keep making out at the new bar and I canīt understand what she possibly sees in this guy. I mean, she is Goth and Goth chicks like odd dudes and his Spanish is amazing but still, itīs a bit of a blow to overinflated ego. How could she like this jag over me, and why do I care, I donīt find her overly attractive and I canīt really talk to her? Maybe itīs because I spent the entire day with her and then this guy just sweeps in and takes her in the matter of 2 hours. Maybe she just thinks of me like a big brother which is very understandable if she does
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. But itīs an odd feeling for me and I donīt dig it all and I donīt really like the fact that you just know this guy is only trying to bang her whereas I actually care about her well being. I think that must be it. I leave at 4am or so and they stay behind. Sheīs an adult, she knows what sheīs doing but she is pretty drunk. I hear them come in and I talk to her for a couple of minutes but she must of spent the night with douchebag because she isnīt in the room when I wake up. Great, we agreed explicity to catch the 11:00 bus and itīs now 10:00 and I have no idea where she is. We canīt leave any later than 10:20 because we need to catch an inner city bus to the main bus terminal. I have a big decision to make. Do I leave without her? This is another reason why I wonīt travel with anyone again. I mean what if I wait around for her all day and then we miss all the buses or she doesnīt want to go and she wants to stay with Moby, then I basically just wasted a day. I have no idea where she is and I decide to just leave. I leve her a note on her bed and she speaks spanish in a spanish speaking country so she should be fine. That other dude can help her now if she needs it. I decide she is no longer my problem as she missed our appointed departure time, not me. I feel a bit bad but there is no reason to spend another day in Montevideo.
Fin
