Dave Ford Does Earth

Posted by Dave Ford

Before I get into the Dangerous Road, La Paz, the Jungle, and the world I need for further expand on the amazing people I have been traveling with over the course of the last month.

The Irish Contingent-

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I want to expand more on Martin and Orla, who I first met in Lima. They both gave quite a bit of shit for their generic introduction in my previous Copacabana entry. The truth, is that these guys have become very good friends in the past month of travel. The further truth, is that I do not know how the hell they travel together.

It has to be so difficult to travel with a girlfriend/boyfriend. But, these guys really pull it off.

Profile of Orla Gannon

Orla is the mother of our group (Shes a great mom). Not reluctantly, she likes it, and we love it. Shes the voice of reason, and a blast all in the same time. She also serves promintanty as my fashion consultant. Especially given the fact that I am still trying to figure out what to do with my new found Afro. She is also brilliant. Similar to someone that would get 1600 on their SATS in the US. She has a photographic memory that comes in handy. On top of the fact that she can recite the entire “Ricky Bobby Prayer Scene” from Talladega nights, she is a completely smoking hot fox and Martin is a lucky son of a bitch to have her. When you also consider the fact that she has been traveling with 4 to 5 guys she needs to be given medal of honor. Some of the conversations she has had to endure about women, bodily fluids, and sports would drive most women completely crazy. (Lucky for her I do not know a damn thing about Premeir league soccer either, so we both tune out the sports conversations).

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Profile of Martin McCoy

Martin, in my opinion, is lucky to have a mom on this trip because he would be completely out of control if he did not. He and I have had so much fun that I can not even recall half of it. This again, is partly Johnny Walkers fault (Johnny Walker is a dirty bastard). Much talk has ensued about a very good friend of his that accidently had sex with a ladyboy (A guy that looks remarkably like a women) in Thailand. Yes, you read that correctly. His straight friend thought he was having sex with a women, and it was not really a women.

Note to self: Do not accidently have sex with a man in when I get to South East Asia.

Martin spends much of this time making fun of the amount of time I talk about the blog. Also, joking at the bar one night after a minor argument where I admitted to being at fault (quite possibly talking about the blog), I told Martin to punch me in the face.

Another note to self: Do not ever joke with a drunken Irishman about them punching you in the face. They will do it.

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Al Burke (AKA The Dark Horse)

We also met Al in Lima, then onto Cusco. He lives in Dublin as well, and has been nicknamed the Dark Horse by Kash (see notes below). It is maybe the best nickname ever created. (Al hates it). Nonetheless, he is a core member of our group but you never really know what he is going to do. He seemingly enjoys pulling up to the bar and attempting to influence the music all night. We share a common love for Creedance Clearwater Revival. But like I said, Al will disapear at times and complete do “Whatever the hell he wants”. Hence, the “Dark Horse” nickname. He marches to the beat of his own drum. We got really close while we were enjoying our 24 hour Bolivian diet (More on the Bolivian Diet later, its also know as food poisoning). At which points we watched “City of God”, “The Last King of Scotland”, and “Little Miss Sunshine” while laying flat on our backs between memorable trips to the ¨Loo¨. All of which are great movies. On the worlds most dangerous road Al was the crazyiest bastard out of our crew, right on the tail of our guide the entire time, who happened to be a female named Jen whom I believe had the hots for me (but thats a story for another day).

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Notes:

> Like I said in my previous entries, this is going to jump around quite a bit. So, to get the full picture you will probably have to read all of the entries.

> We have also been traveling with DJ and Jenny, two other Irish girls that I played golf with and have been a core part of the crew. These two are hysterical, more on them later.

> Kash Khattack was with us from Cusco, then did the Dangerous Road with us. Then he headed South to the Salt Flats and should be in South Africa by now. This is a picture of our last night out with him in La Paz.

> We are also hanging quite a bit with Lewis and Sarah from England who are headed South pretty soon as well.

> So, these are my current crew. This is the crew that has helped make Bolivia amazing. These guys are also currently at the pool chillin while I slave over the computer.

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