Being in Bolivia and Peru makes me nostalgic

and think of stories from previous travels.

Like:

-Guptas in Kolkata (i was a lightweight...double egg, double meat)
-the 40 hour train ride between Kolkata and Chennai
-Khalsas (not spelling it right) with Tuna and him drawing on napkins
-watching an old man on a dirt road in Kathmandu walk slowly with a cane, stop, pull a slingshot out of his back pocket, aim at an innocent cow and hit it, then keep walking
-coming to Peru back in, I think 1999, and seeing the changes since then...new highrises and restaurants, and new highways.
-seeing the ugliest dogs i've EVER seen from Pachamacac (sp?) the old ancient Incan ruins outside of Lima. (seems like the dogs might be that old too).
- the visa & customs stop between Bulgaria and Turkey where they searched EVERYTHING. every bag, every train compartment, every train piece.
-how El Alto and Kathmandu remind me of each other....the close airports, airplane graveyards, unpaved roads, and building styles. with "development" they are looking less like each other.
-air travel has a definite hierarchy in terms of who are the best carriers:

1) international asian carriers are better than ALL US carriers and most european carriers
2) middle eastern carriers can be quite good.
3) singapore airlines is best. then cathay pacific, nippon, or thai. also, i've heard qatar is good and british airways is supposedly hit or miss.

-football (soccer) matches in brazil. i watched a bit of a game last night in Lima at a restaurant with flares and such in the stands. gave me a flashback. :-)
-being told to be the goalie in Galati, Romania because i wasn't any good. then being forced by a 3 foot kid to get out of the net because i let a ball go through.
-tight, tight. reference sierra leone.
-dancing in Buenos Aires, Argentina after a barbeque (maybe my best meal ever)
-eating seviche on this trip and it being in my top 10 meals.
-trying to measure my travel by how many different forms of transportation i've taken. unfortunately...only about 4 different kinds in one trip (plane, car, helicopter, bus). now that i think about it...the trip to Turkey had plane, car, train, bus, and boat within the trip.

these are all related to location. many more regarding the people i've met. more memories will certainly come flooding in....and i'll try to post those.