I know I told you before that I want to start my trekking in Bolivia and work south towards Patagonia, however, after talking to Nathan Shellhorn (if you don't know him, he's a good skating buddy of mine) yesterday, who's going to hike the Inca trail in Ecuador and Peru, I think I'd like to start in Ecudaor. See my main goal in this adventure is to carry what I need for living on my back all over the andes, climb up and around all the killer peaks, snowboard down as many as possible, surf as much as possible, get to know the locals well, and to be dissolute amongst the massiveness of it all. Said another way, Karen Horney wrote about people finding dissolution into something bigger by using the Upanishads' image of rivers flowing into a sea, and I can think of no more beautiful an image when describing what all I'm talking about. Anyways, back to what we were discussing, the Inca trail starts a little north of Quito, Ecuador, and goes through all the places I want to go through anyways, so why not stick with it? The Incas were an amazing civilization; their road network system alone, stretches farther south than Santiago, Chile, which makes it about 3,230 miles from top to bottom! No I'm not thinking about walking that far, but I'm just gonna use it as a guide line. Your thoughts?
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