Yes.. so this is the last of my many blogs.. still having to get used to a slightly different keyboard layout, but it's just a matter of time ;) hehe ;)
the ride back was a pain in the ass.. long layovers, no board entertainment and aweful food, but I made it and even if flying isn't what it once was, it was simply necessairy to get here and hey, I made it alive! :D (all the nice TV doesn't help if you crash in the ocean ;) hehe ;)
what a feeling to be back home!! all the places and people you know, all experience new (because I'm new :) and very pleasant so far!!
..a lot to organize, but things come together quickly (in a certain way want to have it done all at once ;) hehe ;)
the reason to make this last blog is what I call "a trip in numbers" where I listed up some calculations from this trip..
I basically travelled from the 7.7.09 to the 11.4.11
thats 21 months or 640 days
I travelled 56 000km with my bike
at an average speed of 70km/h, this are 800 hours or 33 full days
thats 130 days of having a quite long good ride
means, I traveled every 5th day in average and only 90km/day
the engine did with 3200U/Min as many as 153600000 turns
I guesstimated the ammount of gas I used in average bz 4lt/100km, what makes it 2240lt to make to whole trip
at guesstimated 70ct/liter, this is approx. 1500USD in gasoline
I spent probably 2000USD on spares and service
4000USD amortization of the bike
changed 1 times sprockets, 2 times chains and max. 7 tyres en total (front and rear)
all in all, I'd calculate about 10'000USD to have the trip powered by a BMW 650 GS! :D
I would only change it for a 800 GS and only if I know, that's a very reliable one! :)
and last.. I catched hundreds of mosquitos in my eyes and the ones crushed on the bike must be in the 10'000.. (die suckers ;)
WIIIIIIIIIII... what a trip!!! :D
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Uninvited guests and Bye-Bye-Bike..
this is my second last entry.. sorry, I was just hanging around in the last 2 weeks and did some stuff, enjoyed a lot and had some relationship issues to solve (why does this always happen, when you know that you´re leaving soon..)
I´m here in Buenos Aires Airport, have a 5 hour overlay and everything is shitty expensive, even internet, but I´m so bored that I have to waste some bucks to distract my mind..
they told me there are NO screens in the seats, so the flight won´t be too interesting, I guess :´( *sniff* I REALLY love board entertainment..
so after getting the Job, I kinda overexagerated with my salery (didn´t seems to high to me ;) but as they can´t pay me what I´d like to earn, we gonna re-negociate the terms and let´s see what part of the cake I can get.. probably have to be a little bit more humble ;)
then I made some analysis about blood, urine, stool and and x-ray of my lungs ;) ..for I´m smoking already for a while, it´s not too concerning with my lungs.. but still, there are plans to stop over the next 2 years.. we´ll see how this also works with my new job that demands traveling a lot. then all the rest is fine, exept for I´m having Amoebas in my intestines :/ ..well, got the medication already and it´s not bothering me too much (wouldn´t have noted it and for sure didn´t expect that at all, but the few dollars to make a checkup were spent wisely and as soon as I´m back home, I start taking pills.. if I don´t get anything better in Switzerland it´s 3 times a day over 10 days and not too much drinking then ;)
Karen knew by heart what I need to take and how much and how long and I was pretty impressed by that!! :D
then for all people who want to sell their bike: do it in Bolivia! :D for the 3000 USD I wanted, I would have found a dozen of buyers and I could have probably asked for more, but I kinda made up this price already in my mind and finally I´m happy, I found a solution (don´t have to send it back home). So the amortization was 4000USD over 1.5 years and makes the km-price below than 20 cents (this includes gasoline and spares and everything). I came up with the price, because before making another 8000km I wanted 3500USD and for tyres were totally down and needed some spareparts, I lowered it for 500 USD. If Karen would not have bothered me for giving it that cheap, I would just have been happy.. but so I had to explain my friends, why I just sold it to another dude.
so all it needs is a paper signed by a loyer that he has all the rights to sell and nacionalize the bike. I got a contract where it´s written that he will pay the taxes (1500 USD) and nacionalize it, so I haven´t done anything illegal and even if the Bolivian government would stop me the next time when I return to Bolivia, I have nothing to fear ;) hehe ;) ..but as everybody says and as it seems to be, there will anyway nobody bother me ever even not having a paper like that.
but then I´m happy everything is done.. sent my last package back home.. 13kg and 120USD, but without I would have had overwight and would have needed another bag for my bike-gear.. this way I just have my backpack and nothing to care about.
I also didn´t spend a single dollar more on the bike.. I sold it unwashed and without replacing parts.. it´s probably another 500 USD, so to drive the bike with almost 90 000km it costs the guy 5000 USD and for that money I get the same bike with half the milage in Switzerland.. that´s why I´m happy to have the 3000 USD, even if this just pays my one-year-ticket for public transport in Switzerland :P
We had some nice roleplay sessions while I was in CBBA and all my friends (especially Karen ;) want me to be back and I´m pretty sure, this will happen over the next 2 years, if I have to work in South America.. all left open, but we will see :) ..no paintball and no paragliding this time.. were another 3 weeks of being in my apartment and chilling out ;)
yes.. it´s a lot of change that´s coming right now and in a certain way, it would be nice to still lie in Karen´s arms and forget about the rest of the world ;) ..but there were also some issues over the last days.. quite some fighting (I got really upset with Karen) and we broke up twice just to come together again :P well.. the main problem is a constant distrust I got from Karen.. I don´t blame her for revising my cellphone, but I blame her for not talking with me about messages (or in general about the thoughts and feeling arising in her). So then she blamed me for nothing and I got tired of answering the same question over and over again: do you have been with another girl? NO I HAVEN´T!! the conclusion is: she doesn´t trust me and trust is the very, very base of every relationship.. and then for taking too much stuff and drinking too much, she was talking SOOOO MUCH bullshit!! like "you don´t love me", "you don´t care about me" and "you hate me" and that´s just silly and ridiculous and I was, I´m not with a girl that talks shit, doesn´t think and hurts me and herself! ..so I came to the point that my influence is not what she needs and we are both better off to split up. I was really kicking her out of my house.. well, after she said that she is leaving now and didn´t leave.. I was "what the fuck!! get out now!". Yeah.. we had some rough times, but then in the end (talking about this morning ;) everything was settled and we were in peace and harmony and this was all I wanted for us.. to end this relationship with a positive feeling and gratefulness and not she being sad and angry at me and regretting that we ever met. ..future will tell what´s gonna happen with us, but for the moment both of us have enough to do in our lives and it´s fine the way it is.. also, staying longer in Bolivia without work would not have been satisfying for me and getting a job in Bolivia even less ;) hehe ;)
Then with the houselords everything is fine as well.. and that´s important! :) because if I go back for 2 weeks, taking some holidays after working in South America, I might just apply there again and stay at the same place (everything else would be a lot of circumstances.. especially if you want to bring your girlfriend to a hotel :( --> have to pay for two people if she isn´t leaving after a few hours ;)
what more.. got a haircut, got my teeth cleaned and got a wart removed (I hope it´s all gone.. probably have to put some more cream on it back home).
my 2nd Interview will be on the 13.4. and the same day I will visit my friends from the living community I stayed the year before and checking if there is a room and the vibe to move in again :) it would be by far the most interesting and exiting place to live!! but let´s see.. I got a bit more than 2 weeks to get an apartment and say hello to friends and family and then working life kicks in ;) hehe ;)
will buy an Alienware laptop once I know, I´ll be abroad a lot.. so I can play games while spending lonely nights in hotel rooms ;)
probably buy a this one-year-transport-ticket, but it´s gonna be expensive and I don´t know how much I´ll use it, but then on the other hand it will make me more visiting friends and that´s what I really should do, if I stay another two years in Switzerland.. I´m also looking forwart to write messages to my friends that I said good-bye two years ago.. I took time to visit them all personally and the same thing I want to do again! :D
so what more.. still got 25 minutes of internet time ;) and then another hourish to wait for boarding.. ahh.. it´s a pain in the ass to travel around the world and it cost´s me more than 1300 USD.. but at least I´m not doing that too frequently ;) hehe ;) or then I will be paid and can go wait in the business lounge! HARR HARR! ;D
oh.. unfortunately I deleted the last pictures of my trip :´( *SUPERSNIFF* needed space to make a porn (that hasn´t been shot in the end) and deleted the last pics instead of the first ones.. but anyway.. I got a lot of them and I´m not too much of a collector to really have to upload them to my picasa-web-album. also deleted some movies, but they should be in Facebook already (hope so!!)
my next and last entry will be some numbers about this trip.. have been quite some kilometers, quite a bit of gasoline and an incredible ammount of awesome, amazing experiences!!
yes.. I was pretty busy over the last days.. a lot to organize and even more in my head.. I don´t know what the experience is out of it.. maybe to learn that I don´t have to stress me out.. that there is always a solution and things work always out.. just can´t plan it in advance.. the same as getting up this morning and going to the airport, doing check-in, waiting a long time, talking to people and then starting the trip back home.. it all can be done and has been done, but days before I was stirred up about it and even if I wrote it all down on plans, I couldn´t not just let go of it. But now, the only thing I need is the blessing of the winged gods that the steel bird stays in the sky and next week I will continue to organize stuff, meeting friends and setting up my life back home.. IT´S ABOUT TIME!!! :D haha :D
okay.. you, fellow reader and follower of my blog! write me a message if you see that and I´ll see you soon! :D
be blessed and smile!
I´m here in Buenos Aires Airport, have a 5 hour overlay and everything is shitty expensive, even internet, but I´m so bored that I have to waste some bucks to distract my mind..
they told me there are NO screens in the seats, so the flight won´t be too interesting, I guess :´( *sniff* I REALLY love board entertainment..
so after getting the Job, I kinda overexagerated with my salery (didn´t seems to high to me ;) but as they can´t pay me what I´d like to earn, we gonna re-negociate the terms and let´s see what part of the cake I can get.. probably have to be a little bit more humble ;)
then I made some analysis about blood, urine, stool and and x-ray of my lungs ;) ..for I´m smoking already for a while, it´s not too concerning with my lungs.. but still, there are plans to stop over the next 2 years.. we´ll see how this also works with my new job that demands traveling a lot. then all the rest is fine, exept for I´m having Amoebas in my intestines :/ ..well, got the medication already and it´s not bothering me too much (wouldn´t have noted it and for sure didn´t expect that at all, but the few dollars to make a checkup were spent wisely and as soon as I´m back home, I start taking pills.. if I don´t get anything better in Switzerland it´s 3 times a day over 10 days and not too much drinking then ;)
Karen knew by heart what I need to take and how much and how long and I was pretty impressed by that!! :D
then for all people who want to sell their bike: do it in Bolivia! :D for the 3000 USD I wanted, I would have found a dozen of buyers and I could have probably asked for more, but I kinda made up this price already in my mind and finally I´m happy, I found a solution (don´t have to send it back home). So the amortization was 4000USD over 1.5 years and makes the km-price below than 20 cents (this includes gasoline and spares and everything). I came up with the price, because before making another 8000km I wanted 3500USD and for tyres were totally down and needed some spareparts, I lowered it for 500 USD. If Karen would not have bothered me for giving it that cheap, I would just have been happy.. but so I had to explain my friends, why I just sold it to another dude.
so all it needs is a paper signed by a loyer that he has all the rights to sell and nacionalize the bike. I got a contract where it´s written that he will pay the taxes (1500 USD) and nacionalize it, so I haven´t done anything illegal and even if the Bolivian government would stop me the next time when I return to Bolivia, I have nothing to fear ;) hehe ;) ..but as everybody says and as it seems to be, there will anyway nobody bother me ever even not having a paper like that.
but then I´m happy everything is done.. sent my last package back home.. 13kg and 120USD, but without I would have had overwight and would have needed another bag for my bike-gear.. this way I just have my backpack and nothing to care about.
I also didn´t spend a single dollar more on the bike.. I sold it unwashed and without replacing parts.. it´s probably another 500 USD, so to drive the bike with almost 90 000km it costs the guy 5000 USD and for that money I get the same bike with half the milage in Switzerland.. that´s why I´m happy to have the 3000 USD, even if this just pays my one-year-ticket for public transport in Switzerland :P
We had some nice roleplay sessions while I was in CBBA and all my friends (especially Karen ;) want me to be back and I´m pretty sure, this will happen over the next 2 years, if I have to work in South America.. all left open, but we will see :) ..no paintball and no paragliding this time.. were another 3 weeks of being in my apartment and chilling out ;)
yes.. it´s a lot of change that´s coming right now and in a certain way, it would be nice to still lie in Karen´s arms and forget about the rest of the world ;) ..but there were also some issues over the last days.. quite some fighting (I got really upset with Karen) and we broke up twice just to come together again :P well.. the main problem is a constant distrust I got from Karen.. I don´t blame her for revising my cellphone, but I blame her for not talking with me about messages (or in general about the thoughts and feeling arising in her). So then she blamed me for nothing and I got tired of answering the same question over and over again: do you have been with another girl? NO I HAVEN´T!! the conclusion is: she doesn´t trust me and trust is the very, very base of every relationship.. and then for taking too much stuff and drinking too much, she was talking SOOOO MUCH bullshit!! like "you don´t love me", "you don´t care about me" and "you hate me" and that´s just silly and ridiculous and I was, I´m not with a girl that talks shit, doesn´t think and hurts me and herself! ..so I came to the point that my influence is not what she needs and we are both better off to split up. I was really kicking her out of my house.. well, after she said that she is leaving now and didn´t leave.. I was "what the fuck!! get out now!". Yeah.. we had some rough times, but then in the end (talking about this morning ;) everything was settled and we were in peace and harmony and this was all I wanted for us.. to end this relationship with a positive feeling and gratefulness and not she being sad and angry at me and regretting that we ever met. ..future will tell what´s gonna happen with us, but for the moment both of us have enough to do in our lives and it´s fine the way it is.. also, staying longer in Bolivia without work would not have been satisfying for me and getting a job in Bolivia even less ;) hehe ;)
Then with the houselords everything is fine as well.. and that´s important! :) because if I go back for 2 weeks, taking some holidays after working in South America, I might just apply there again and stay at the same place (everything else would be a lot of circumstances.. especially if you want to bring your girlfriend to a hotel :( --> have to pay for two people if she isn´t leaving after a few hours ;)
what more.. got a haircut, got my teeth cleaned and got a wart removed (I hope it´s all gone.. probably have to put some more cream on it back home).
my 2nd Interview will be on the 13.4. and the same day I will visit my friends from the living community I stayed the year before and checking if there is a room and the vibe to move in again :) it would be by far the most interesting and exiting place to live!! but let´s see.. I got a bit more than 2 weeks to get an apartment and say hello to friends and family and then working life kicks in ;) hehe ;)
will buy an Alienware laptop once I know, I´ll be abroad a lot.. so I can play games while spending lonely nights in hotel rooms ;)
probably buy a this one-year-transport-ticket, but it´s gonna be expensive and I don´t know how much I´ll use it, but then on the other hand it will make me more visiting friends and that´s what I really should do, if I stay another two years in Switzerland.. I´m also looking forwart to write messages to my friends that I said good-bye two years ago.. I took time to visit them all personally and the same thing I want to do again! :D
so what more.. still got 25 minutes of internet time ;) and then another hourish to wait for boarding.. ahh.. it´s a pain in the ass to travel around the world and it cost´s me more than 1300 USD.. but at least I´m not doing that too frequently ;) hehe ;) or then I will be paid and can go wait in the business lounge! HARR HARR! ;D
oh.. unfortunately I deleted the last pictures of my trip :´( *SUPERSNIFF* needed space to make a porn (that hasn´t been shot in the end) and deleted the last pics instead of the first ones.. but anyway.. I got a lot of them and I´m not too much of a collector to really have to upload them to my picasa-web-album. also deleted some movies, but they should be in Facebook already (hope so!!)
my next and last entry will be some numbers about this trip.. have been quite some kilometers, quite a bit of gasoline and an incredible ammount of awesome, amazing experiences!!
yes.. I was pretty busy over the last days.. a lot to organize and even more in my head.. I don´t know what the experience is out of it.. maybe to learn that I don´t have to stress me out.. that there is always a solution and things work always out.. just can´t plan it in advance.. the same as getting up this morning and going to the airport, doing check-in, waiting a long time, talking to people and then starting the trip back home.. it all can be done and has been done, but days before I was stirred up about it and even if I wrote it all down on plans, I couldn´t not just let go of it. But now, the only thing I need is the blessing of the winged gods that the steel bird stays in the sky and next week I will continue to organize stuff, meeting friends and setting up my life back home.. IT´S ABOUT TIME!!! :D haha :D
okay.. you, fellow reader and follower of my blog! write me a message if you see that and I´ll see you soon! :D
be blessed and smile!
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