It’s funny, sometimes you get what you want in life and then you realize it’s not what you wanted after all.  After teaching all last year in South Korea I thought I’d probably want to do the same as I traveled around South America, since it was a great way to earn money and get to know my new host country.  Teaching in S Korea vs Latin America is completely different and worthy of a post of its own, but more on that in the future.  On the road you often times learn things about yourself, in my case, I learned that when I travel I don’t like to work and vice versa.  I was having a hard time balancing doing the things I love (travel, photography) while teaching, which I still love and look forward to doing in the future once I figure out where I want to call home.  The way I see it is like this, we are only on this adventure for a finite amount of time so why not make the most of it? I have learned a few words in Quechua, the local Andean dialect, and one phrase that has stuck with me is Chulla Vida, that means life is short so do what makes you happy.  What makes me happy is running through crowded bus depots, haggling with cabbies, getting lost in the jungle, hiking the Andes, trying strange foods and capturing it all for my friends to see when I get back home.  I will keep doing what I am doing and see where it takes me.