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Dave Paco

Yo soy el tiempo que pasa...

About Me

More analog than digital.

Let sorrowful longing dwell in your heart.
Never give up, never lose hope.
Allah says, "The broken ones are my beloved."
Crush your heart, be broken.
(Shaikh Abu Saeed Abil Kheir, aka "Nobody")

Cut anchor and drifting...

My Interests

We use mechanical methods to document organic pleasures.

I'd like to meet:

I'm going back to Colombia to find Shakira.

Music:

on the street.

Movies:

Nacho Libre
Tierra y Libertad
Santo vs. Las Mujueres Vampiros
El Grito '68
The Gods Must Be Crazy
Rojo Amanecer
Santo vs. El Rey del Crimen
Man on Fire
Sube y Bajo

Television:

No, not really.

Books:

2008:
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Before I Sleep
La Hojarasca
True History of the Kelly Gang
The Beach
Julius Ceasar
The Population Bomb
Stardust
Adventures of Joeseph Andrews
Three Cups of Tea
Bill Bryson Down Under..... Un Largo Camino....... Varieties of Scientific Experience............

My Blog

Travel Update 05:20:08 // Livingston, Guatemala.

Friends and Family, Brothers and Sisters& I'm on the way back to the States. Writing you now from the Finca Tatin in Guatemala. Hanging out here in the summer heat for a bit. Stopped off ...
Posted by Dave Paco on Tue, 20 May 2008 09:55:00 PST

Travel Update 03:30:08 // Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Friends and Family, Brothers and Sisters... Patagonia. Not so many people. A vast expanse of mainly untouched lands, barren, wind-torn deserts, impenetrable rocky mountains, massive rivers of ...
Posted by Dave Paco on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 03:06:00 PST

Thoughts from the End of the Earth.

Friends and Family, Brothers and Sisters& I made it. Ushuai, Tierra del Fuego. End of the line. A year and a half ago I set out from Los Angeles on a southbound descent over land to the final poin...
Posted by Dave Paco on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:51:00 PST

Travel Update 02:13:08 // Santiago, Chile.

Friends and Family, Brothers and Sisters& Puno. Lake Titicaca (world's highest lake navigable to large vessels). Not much to see in the town where I left you last but I made my way out into the lake f...
Posted by Dave Paco on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:27:00 PST

Darkness.

My heart is shattered and scattered across the globe. Its lonely pieces connected by frail veins of asphalt, cracked and bruised. My blood is thinned by the rain and the daylight hurts my eyes. I trav...
Posted by Dave Paco on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:18:00 PST

Chief Joseph answers...

"Why do you not want schools?" the commissioner asked. "They will teach us to have churches," Cheif Jospeh answered. "Do you not want churches?" "No, we do not want churches." "Why do ...
Posted by Dave Paco on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 01:29:00 PST

The Road to Machu Picchu.

Friends and Family, Brothers and Sisters... Sitting on the edge of a tiny creek watching the trash float by. A plastic bag passes with a crisp, crinkled gasp and then an old two-liter bottle of someth...
Posted by Dave Paco on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 07:04:00 PST

Travel Update 11:07:07 // Colombia.

Notes from the Equator:Friends and Family, Brothers and Sisters& My hopes for traveling by sailboat from Colón to Cartagena were squashed when I arrived at the Caribbean Coast to find that a boat ...
Posted by Dave Paco on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:46:00 PST

A night in Bogotá.

...Poor thing has fried her brain and is now a walking party hunter. We tried to track down a joint. Ducked into a bar in a mini mall that was playing the Motley Crue "Wild Side" video, found some sha...
Posted by Dave Paco on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:41:00 PST

la noche.

She is a shooting star. A slim, strange rainbow. She leaves her burning sands, a shot through the sky. Eerie insects eco a chirp within the waves of the sweet nights breath and the distant shriek of c...
Posted by Dave Paco on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 05:14:00 PST