Escape to Patagonia

Two things a bird posted recalled this to my memory: first, the request for more blog reading; and then the blog-provided map-generator of one’s past travel destinations. When I was abroad in Santiago de Chile, I met another study abroad student who took his dissatisfaction with the study abroad experience in hand, dropped out of his program, and found work cutting trail in the Patagonian wilds. I know it sounds like a fairy tale, but I’m serious; some people just have a gift for living good stories.

Anyway, here’s the link to the livejournal he kept in lieu of sending those annoying mass emails (another analogue to the idea of email diaries I brought up in one of my [many] recent posts). Not only does he live a good story, but he also tells one, and I think this very brief stint with livejournal -- he only made it through three posts, albeit lengthy ones – provides an excellent example of blog as narrative, as email/journal entry, and as travelogue.