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Tuesday, August 12, 2008

I have made the difficult decision to stop updating this travel blog at least for the time being. I have decided my time and energy would be best focused on trying to write a book and hopefully finding a publisher. I can't believe how much time it takes to transfer each entry into Word and to correct all the grammatical and spelling errors in addition to making the entries more readable, flowing and much better written. And I feel like everytime I update a new entry in this blog that I should be updating an old entry in order to accomplish my ultimate goal of getting a book deal.

That being said, I thank each and everyone of you who has spent any of your valuable time reading this blog. You are what kept this blog going as many times I almost shut it down but then I would get a word of encouragement from someone telling me how funny an entry was or how one of my ramblings about life really touched them and made them think. Even though I was alone in SA I feel like I wasn't because of all my friends and family and radom people who read this blog because they were interested in my life down there. I truly thank anyone who spent even a minute reading this and especially those who read almost if not all of the very long and sometimes mundane entries. My time in SA was definitely rewarding and the best 7 months of my life but there were times when I was a bit depressed and lonely but all I had to do was update this blog and see your comments and see how many people logged in to read it and the new entry would always make me laugh and like I said I always felt like you guys were right along there with me.

I will one day finish this blog if for no other reason then to have a full account of my time in SA which will hopefully live on through generations of my family and possibly in infamy. I would like to print the entire blog and attach pictures to the various entries and make I suppose what one would call a scrapbook someday. But like I said for now I am going to put all my impetus into updating the Brazilian part of the trip and trying to find a publisher for it. It's a long shot but I think I need to give it a go and see what happens. Sorry you guys will miss out on my adventures through Bolivia and Peru which features me holding lit dynamite, riding a bike down the most dangerous road in the world, spending the night on an island in Lake Titicaca with a local family and one very large titty, visiting Machu Picchu and trekking down the deepest canyon in the world to name just a few.

Once again, thank all of you for sharing in my life for the last several months. I hope you were at least mildly entertained. If I do end up getting a book deal I will let everyone who I have email addresses for know. When I start updating this blog again I will send a message to everyone who gets the updates which I think is about 25 people. If you would like to know when I resume this blog please send me an email to tartabull4@gmail.com and I will include you on the automatic update list.

Thank you, Shawn

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