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Wish you were Nowhere…..

Friday, July 7th, 2006

Sometimes it is hard to explain an experience in words, other times it is just useless to try. Nowhere was one of those experiences, very similar to Burningman in that respect.

I had an amazing time and the people I met will be in my life forever.

Have a look at some photos

and be very wary of any Ninjas that may befriend you.

**hugs**
Jessica

Boldy Going Nowhere

Tuesday, July 4th, 2006

**cool pic**

Lingering in Morocco until the last possible day to make it to the Nowhere festival in Nothern Spain had a price, and I paid dearly for it. Of course the ferry didn’t roll into port at the sheduled time, try 10 hours late. So as luck would have it I missed the last train to Granada and was forced to take a bus from Algericas to Granada arriving at 200am. Wonderful. Good thing I know Granada and even late at night it is a safe town.

By the time I made it to Rhambutan it was 3 am, I slept wonderfully on the terrace, qnd enjoyed the next day running some errands and eating ice cream by the bucket. I was hoping to have a few days in Granada to chill out and slowly merge back into a place where donkeys don’t rule the streets and everything has a set price, but I had to move so I arranged the most hectic two days of travel to get to nowhre by the next afternoon.

One overnight train got me into Barcelona in the morning, from therre I took another train to Zaragoza. I could have arranged a taxi ride to the site, but what is the fun in that?! I decieded to take a few buses to get to the nearest town and hopefully catch a ride to the site. The first bus to Huesca was hopefully getting me to the station with enough time to spare to get the other bus to Robes. I got to the bus station in Huesca just as the Robes bus was happily speeding out of town without me. Bummed out, thinking I had missed the last bus of the day I weighed my options. Internet conncetions in Huesca are practically non-existant, I was beginning to wonder why I always take the hard way of getting places. Ineed there was another bus in six hours as I found out, So I wandered around with my pack feeling heavier than a block of lead before finding the only place open for a bit of refuge from the persistant mid day heat. Thank god the chinese have started tapas bars that are open during siesta.

I wasted away the next few hours with frosty mugs of beer and bad spanish television returning to a non-muslim country isn’t so bad sometimes. Finally I caught the bus to Robes. I, of course was thinking Robes would be teeming with cars full of Nooners heading to the site, imagine my dismay when I arrived to a ghost town, no Nooners, no traffic, and no hope for me. Again, why do I do this to myself? I bucked up laughing and walked down the road in search of the sign printed on my map. I walked past the same old guys sitiing on a bench about five times, they laughed at me as I showed them the directions and they mumbled incomprehensible Spanish at me, of course I am crazy, who else would dare attempt this feat? As the sun was getting lower in the sky I contemplated setting up camp on the side of the road with a harsly fabricated sign indicatiing I am going Nowhere. Indeed I was.

The last direction I had not explored turned out to the the right one, and I started walking. Before I even made it to the sign a car passed and I saw the most glorious sight. Brakelights!! Miss Cheeky opened the door and shouted, Are you going Nowhere?! Yes! I screamed running. YAY!

Blissed out in Granada

Friday, June 9th, 2006
Hola! I left San Sebastion with alot of chesse, bread and faith that I would make it to my hostel in Granada safe and sound. You tend to need alot of faith when travelling with an overly stuffed backpack, arriving ... [Continue reading this entry]

San Sebastion, just what I needed

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006
Hola from the heart of Basque country. Please donĀ“t call this Spain because people here are proud to be Basque and it shows! From the moment I set foot in this awesome city I knew ... [Continue reading this entry]