Day Sixty-One: Horseback Riding, Canopying & My One-Way Ticket Home

I wake up, open the blinds and I am greeted with sunshine.  I am picked up in a car and taken to a farm where I meet Huho.  I am the only person riding this morning.   Carancho takes me up a mountain.  It’s beautiful here.

After lunch, Nahuel picks a group of us up in a van for canopying.  As we head up the mountain, I meet another lone traveler, Tamar.  She is 24 and from the Northwestern Territories in Canada.  She landed in Lima in January and plans to travel throughout South America until May.  Before coming here, she worked as a travel agent and then in an outdoor store.  She works so that she can travel for extended periods of time.  She would travel all the time if she could.  I suggest that she work for Lonely Planet but she prefers photography.  She was offered a job working at a hostel in Peru and seriously considered staying there awhile and working. 

Tamar and me I try to imagine myself living life as she does.  I can’t help but feel that I would be missing something if I were traveling all of the time.  I need to have a home base.  Perhaps if my home base were the Northwestern Territories of Canada, I’d feel differently.  But my home base is New York.  And I have sweet baby Lyla, friends, family and a job opportunity waiting for me there.  I love to travel.  I think in order to learn about myself and the things I want in life, I need to step back from my world and try something different.  But I think it is also important to come back.  I want to come back.  I’m ready.  It’s time.

CanopyingWe get back to the hotel and I book my one way ticket back, with a stop in Miami for Nacho and Lolo’s birthday.  I still have one more week here.  Up next: wine tasting in Mendoza.  See more pictures.