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[Redpyramidhead]

Well, it's been a nice long month trip to my fathers home country of Colombia that seemed to have lasted forever. Unfortunately, it didn't last forever even though I wich it could have. Let me tell you guyz, Colombia is truly a beautiful country very very rich in culture containing some of the most wonderful people in the world. THe countryside is also simply breathtaking in a way I can't describe to you right now. I will post links to pictures and I will describe my experience more in this thread if people are curious as I really want to share my experience with others very much.

Also, I brought back the best souvenir I could possibly bring back from Colombia (other than a colombiana ) It's a classical guitar made right in Bucaramunga, Colombia. Perfect for the type of latin music that I have been wanting to learn how to play for some time now. I've already been inspired to start writing music with it...I wrote a large portion of a song the last night I was there. Hopefully, I'll be able to post some pics of this beauty

Anywayz... it is great to be back and I missed you guys. I hope I did not miss too much while I was gone and if you could all get me up to date about any new members or any goings on with regular members please let me know. I am eager to start participating here again and talking about everything under the sun with you guyz and especially videogames...along with getting back to playing with them, por su puesto!

PAZ!

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[-PSX-]

Glad to hear you had a great time out there and came back with something useful and inspirational. Go for the song...

Hope you did get some of the needed souveneirs.

[Pu the Owl]

Welcome back Red

[tempted]

Hey you..it's good to know that you had a good time in Colombia...well welcome back and see you on the boards...

[trunks69420]

Welcome back my good friend...> i am glad you made it home safe.... give me an IM and i will debrief you on your trip... later

[Gadzoox]

YAY REDDY'S BACK!!!!
So glad you had fun!

[DSgamer]

hey man, il talk 2 u on AIM my new SN is OmeletteMaster

[Berserker]

Welcome back Red, good to hear you had a great time!

[Beretta55]

Welcome back red,glad you had fun too

[fantasytiger]

yaYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYy !!!!!! i love when an old member comes back its been pretty dead good to see you back

[Deathwatchz]

welcome back man. i didnt really know that you weer gone since i was busy as hell for the last month and havent been able to access the boards as much as i would like. ( the military is boring now, i am doing nothing but paperwork for the operations sergeant, cuz she doesn't want to do it herself....) oh well, guess ill talk to you later tho man.

[Rei]

Welcome back Red, it's good to see you around again. Glad to hear you had fun

[neomarik]

Welcome back red, hope you had fun

[Redpyramidhead]

Thanks, everyone. It's great to feel so welcome when returning after so long. Now I know I was actually missed Sorry, about the delay in getting the photos up. I'm sure some of you are interested in seeing them. Some have been scanned already, but they were scanned in really dark and I need to fix that.

The famous Bolivar Plaza in Bogota is in one of the photos. My dad and I are standing in front of a rather statuesque statue of Simon Bolivar himself holding a sword up. We were also accompanied by a rather large a mount of pigeons flocking around the ground because the guy with the polaroid camera who was selling photos kept giving us pigeon feed to throw on the ground This was his way of trying to get us to buy more pictures.

For anybody who's interested in some political history about this place we visited:

If you are old enough you may remember seeing something on the news about this particular place where you saw a tank driving right into a building Waco-style. That was a stand-off that goes back to the mid-80's where a drug cartel had stormed the senate and literally took everybody hostage. The military, unlike they would here, did not handle the situation delicately and sent the tank right in and killed all of the cartel members.

There is also a very beautiful cathedral right in the plaza. It would have been to the right of us in that photo. I, myself, am not catholic, but I went in the cathedral and stayed quite a while because it's archatecture and beauty were so mesmorizing. So, knowing that so many people prayed there and had faith when they went there and so much sadness and joy had occurred in that place in a spiritual way for millions of people, I felt very emotional being there and I figured all the faith having been shared in that place shared by fellow human beings might very well have been a very positive thing in it's powerfulness so I prayed while I was there about a lot of things. It felt good when I was done even though I did not know if they had been listened to by anyone in particular or not. But to be able to admit one does not know that is also just as wise as having faith. I felt very good afterwards.

So yeah, my Uncle's farm in just outside a small town in the mountains called Norcasia, was one of the most peaceful places I have spent time in my whole life. Norcasia itself was incredible along with the people. I yearn to go back already. But I will probably have to wait atleast 6 months until this is possible again. It was such a peaceful place. I can't describe to you how at home I felt there, but in a lot of the places I visited in my father's home country I felt more at home there then I do where I live in the United States. And some of the places I saw almost looked familiar to me on a level that was impossible, because I was not born there and had never seen the country before and I had know way of knowing or being prepared for the beauty I was going to behold. Perhaps in a past life I was there? I do not know. But, it was something I will never forget.

I rant too much, sorry. Pictures will be up soon. Look out for them. Later on I hope to run a video stream onto the computer. Short clips from all the footage my aunt took while she has been down there. She will be back up in a month.

I learned many important things people, but the first and foremost I should share with all you is that no matter who you are, you should travel in your life. Try to always find time every now and then to travel to different places in the world. Most importantly, visit the countries your ancestors came from. I t goes a long way towards helping you find yourself as well as learn about the world.

PAZ


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[Piggle_humsy]

One word.. YAY!


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p.s I know Ive spoken to you already but I thought i'd add my little bit!

[Reid]

I'm glad you had such a good experience, Red.

It's one of my dreams to travel to Scotland where my family is from before too long. I think it's really important to know where you've come from and going to a sort of 'mother land' is really valuable toward understanding more about your life.

Also, the guitar you took back seems to be the perfect souvenir out of anything else. What a great memento and a continuing way to remember your roots as well as the experience.