I’m giving it one more try.

My track record for updating my blog, as those of you who are most likely to have found your way here will already know, is not the best. I’ve had some more productive periods (if “productive” is really the word for what was, at times, mostly yet another procrastination strategy), but they've been few and far between. Lately (and by that I mean the last two and a half years), the blog has been as good as dead, except for a rather unsuccessful facelift (please ignore the mess, apparently there’s no (easy) way to make the blog look and work the way I’d like it to. It’s a work in progress). In my previous, not-so-recent post, I wrote about the possibility of packing it in and closing up shop; my decision to let the blog live for now has nothing to do with being reconciled to the surveillance we are subjected to online – I still feel persecuted. But as I have no intentions of revealing anything deeply personal, political or provocative (sorry to disappoint) on this page, I suppose the harm will be limited. And, as Erica proved a couple of years ago, blogging is actually quite a decent way of keeping people up to date on what you are up to. Thus, I hereby offer this first in a series* of brilliantly composed articles, occasionally accompanied by the most stunning and well-crafted photographs, describing my amazing adventures as I travel through and explore the great Latin American unknown**.

Alternatively: here’s proof I’m still alive, and a promise I will try to put up a few words now and then, just to let you know I still out there. Whether knowing I still walk the surface of the earth is enough for you, or you actually want to read the posts through as well, is a decision I leave entirely up to you. I will never know ...

And here's a picture of a chair:

With that, I sign off for now. Thank you, and Good Night! 

     Medellín out. 

* Notice how I purposely phrase myself into a promise of future productivity. Without some measure of outside pressure this is never going to work. I know me. 

** That is, mostly the Medellín metropolitan area.