It has been a while since I posted anything in here, the truth is I have been doing most of my blogging in my journal in a more personal format.
I have no excuse, I have been MIA from this blog. But how can I not? This last six months has guided me through such experiences and adventures of discovery, further self realizations. Incredible lessons disguised as challenges. Amazing connections and interconnections from those sharing this giant but also small glove. People living in a complete different world. Flowing, adapting, struggling, fighting and overcoming.
Phew - A lot has happened since Nicaragua, which left nothing but a heart opening wider. Strong yet sensible and still vulnerable. Walking a warriors path, sharing the shining bright light on the reflection of his sword.
On April 13th I took a bus from Nicaragua to Costa Rica. I had a whole day all to myself in San Jose before flying to Peru. Flying from Costa Rica was cheaper than flying from Nicaragua, and it would give me a day layover in Mexico city which is used to meet with Jeremy. Jeremy is a local parkour practitioner. We moved and trained a little. While still being conscious of my knee, it responded well. It feel good to play. We had a good time.
Iquitos - Peru
Peru came to be another chapter of this journey. A journey of further realizations of the sometimes raw world we live in. This chapter was filled with great people, awesome places, amazing lesson and blunt realities. I wrote some thoughts in more depth about the experience, I will be sharing soon. I also finally finished couple of videos documenting the experience. They're filled with a contrast of beauty and the raw nature of humans and this wonderful place we call "our" planet.
I arrived in Lima, Peru on April 16th where I only stayed one night at a host from Couchsurfing, (which has been such a wonderful tool for meeting awesome local people, staying off the tourist trail and saving some money, more of this later). From Lima I passed through Tarapoto, where more couch surfing gave me the opportunity to meet a couple of girls who took us, Julien (a french guy who has been traveling the world for over two year only hitchhiking) and I to some great adventures to her family's farm.
Julien and I teamed up and decided to hitchhiked our way to Iquitos. This took us to Yurimaguas, where we convinced the boat company (a two day boat ride to Iquitos) to allow us to go in the journey with them for free to Nauta.
Nauta was very interesting, we stay there a few days with a local family. during our time there we had the opportunity to speak on a couple of the local radios stations about our views in regards to traveling around south America and the lack of care for proper trash management, the deforestation of the amazon and river pollution we witness as we visited the many places we were blessed to be in.
View video here
We finally arrived to Iquitos. I took about 2 weeks from Lima to get to Iquitos. Julien and I parted ways after a couple of days of our arrival. I stayed in Iquitos for about 4 weeks. While there I met an Australian guy who had just bought a small boat and wanted to make his way to Manaos. Knowing that my next step would be to get to Leticia, Colombia and after speaking with him for a few days I decided to join on an adventure which would take us for 16 days navigating on the waters of the Amazon and visiting some of the indigenous communities along the side of the river. What an experience!
To save me some word which Winter do justicie, here is a video,
Watch video here
We fished, joined in a hunting expeditions, helped with some building, taught at a school and did our best effort to participate with the community. Learning and taking with us amazing memories.
That adventure led me all the way to Leticia, Colombia, where we would part ways as I was getting ready for another experience of movement. Three weeks prior to arriving here, little did I know that Bogota would bring me the opportunity of working along side Dan Edwardes from Parkour Generations to deliver the Level I ADAPT certification to a group of awesome people.
Group photo
Colombia was filled with moments where my coaching skills would be challenged and also given the opportunity to excel. I met some incredible practitioners who I also learned from on the way. Working along side Dan and teaching the ADAPT was a dream come true which I didn't even know I had but was very pleased to fulfilled.
This was also the time where after realizing my experience in the amazon and returning into the city, I would become vegetarians, for it became strange to me seeing meat on my plate and no having any idea where it came from. That along with the awareness of the mistreat of animal and poisoning involved in the meat industry was more than enough to make a change a never thought I would.
And after a bit over week in Colombia, I was to return to Venezuela for the first time in 11 years. And that is the next chapter of this history.
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