The Living Dead in Recoleta

Today Kenj and I went to the Recoleta Cemetery. Her idea. I've never been to a cemetery except to bury a dead person or see someone's grave (only twice in my life) and haven't ever considered going to one as a tourist. Perhaps mainly because I've been haunted before. Go ahead, laugh, but for real! More than once! I've seen some weird shit, and I never really cared to stroll through Downtown Death before. But it was actually pretty. It really was like a mini city for the dead, with plazas, alleys, church steeples, marble and granite facades. Not spooky at all, but I guess the unhappy, wandering spirits wouldn't be shooting the shit in the graveyard anyway. They're harassing people like me.

Now we're waiting for our friend Justin to get in from Kennedy. His flight lands at 5, and Kendra has a skype date at the same time so we're chilling out. It's cold out today, and windy!

I'm about to start getting a little attached to BA, and now I've decided I'm definitely leaving May 5. I booked my flight home for June 6 out of Lima, so I'll have a month to explore some more and hopefully have some more crazy shit happen to me. I'm sure it will, I can feel it. Not anything bad, just something that will leave a big impression. I'm excited to be on the road again, but saying bye has always been hard for me, and now it's going to be time to do it again! It's making me sad thinking that I'll be home soon. I'm overjoyed to be seeing my family, of course, but this trip has just been so exciting! No one tells me what to do, I am my own boss for the volunteer stuff, I meet so many interesting people and have so many interesting and exciting things happen to me... anyway, I'll be on the run from the US of A soon enough again, just a matter of time. No point in thinking about it now anyway because I still have 2 months to go!