First blog entry and semi introduction

In Feburaury 2006 I left my home and job in Santa Barbara, California to go traveling with three friends.  I´ve seen the most beautiful sunsets on the beaches of Ko Phangan, Thailand... I lived in a flat above a bar called the Barleycorn for two months in Melbourne, Australia... I´ve been bungy jumping over a river in Taupo, New Zealand... and now it´s time to for me to explore the avenues of Buenos Aires, Argentina.  

In Thailand, there was a saying used very often.  You could find it printed everywhere on Tshirts and postcards for tourists... ¨Same, Same, but Different¨.  At the time my friends and I didn´t quite grasp the meaning, but now that I have been traveling for over 5 months, those Tshirts make so much more sense.
No matter where you go there will always be a post office to send a card, a grocery store to pick up food, a pay phone to call your family, and a McDonalds right around the corner.  And you´ll still find the same groups of people.  The wealthy, the poor, the young, the old, the drinkers, the stoners, the good, and the bad.  It´s all ¨Same, Same, but somehow Different...  A new country, a new culture, a new town, a new hostel, a new friend... that´s where the difference comes in.  My friend once told me, ¨No matter where you go, everything is the same, but the scenery is different. The trick is to learn to love that... and see as much scenery as possible.¨

With this blog I want to document the same, same, but different of each place I go.  The trivial daily things that are too boring to write home to the fam about, but interesting enough to me that I want to share it with other people.  It´s the small things that happen every day that make this experience so wonderful.

I´ll write what I see and I´ll write what I feel.  I can´t promise it will always be interesting... but I can promise it will be honest.

Ciao,

Heather