Misleading Expectations
Trip Start
Mar 01, 2006
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Trip End
Dec 01, 2007
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Navimag, Puerto Natales,
Chile
Saturday, March 31, 2007
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In travelling there are exarcebated bad thoughts, or, in this case, how to completely fail to match your plans with your expectations, or vice-versa.
First evening on board. Only people like us, like me. Trekking outfits, a lot of beer and too much noise. The cruise effect, there is nothing else to do but getting drunk and trying to have fun together, as we are all stuck in the same p(a)lace.
Where have they gone, the cargos on which you travelled under a thousand stars, the trains in which straw turned into the comfiest of bed, the aeropostale planes at the back of which you had to fit between cargo boxes? And where the hell did I built up such cheesy expectations? Too much reading, and not enough efforts looking for... the unexpected?
May be it is all over, or may be it is just there, a few meters or a few instants away, waiting for a drop, an encounter or a wrong step, to be discovered.
Discovery, a subjective term in essence, albeit of high importance. Even when we talk about discovering something, we actually talk about dis-covering oneself, litterally, by removing the lot of ignorance and the too much of preconceptions.
Nothing new here, but that made me remember that writen adventure stories turn into deceptive expectations.
Unless you write the story for yourself.
But it was clearly too late here, and I was furiously angry at having lured myself into thinking there would be anything like a fronteer feel on this trip.
Very rarely do I wish that the people around me could vanish.
Longing for solitude cannot be shared.
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