8-Jun-2010 - back in paradise at beautiful beaches in northeastern Brazil, it is shame it is completely dark by 6 p.m.

5-Jun-2010 - if you ever visit Brazil, make sure not to miss Salvador, what a beautiful place!

4-Jun-2010 - Over-vacationed, holidayed-out. Today I took the last one of well over 300 long distance bus trips in Latin America. It is time to go home!

4-Jun-2010 - I love Oscar Niemeyer's work, Sao Paulo, Rio and Belo Horinzote have great examples but here in Brasilia his buildings are on every corner.

26-May-2010 - is on his way to see Flamengo vs. Fluminense at Maracana in Rio

13-May-2010 - felt a bit uneasy when walking through a favela in Sao Paulo at night, nothing happened though.

7-May-2010 - Saw 40+ record stores in the centre of Sao Paulo, only visited a handful.

4-May-2010 - first beach in Brazil. I saw three dead turtles on the beach and one very lively family of dolphins in the water.

3-May-2010 - knowing only a handful of Portuguese words. I now realize how helpful it was to know some Spanish

3-May-2010 - Iguacu falls are simply breathtaking, especially with the highest water levels for 28 years

29-Apr-2010 - just entered Brazil, my 20th and last country on this trip

28-Apr-2010 - is chasing rainbows at the Iguazu waterfalls. Even managed to touch one.

20-Apr-2010 - Into Paraguay, at 8am it was already 28 degrees, by noon it was 40 (104F), thank God it is autumn

6-Apr-2010 - just read that the bus ride from Mendoza to Lima takes 60 to 70 hours. No thank you!

21-Mar-2010 - Superclasico in Buenos Aires, Boca Juniors vs. River Plate! $150 price tag and rain kept me away. Then the game was suspended due to rain.

17-Mar-2010 - Re-Watching Information Highway: CEO Summit Jan-1994, http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/53677-1, Eisner, Murdoch and others

16-Mar-2010 - I always liked the name of this place, but strolling the streets of Montevideo on a beautiful late summer day beats just reading about it.

15-Mar-2010 - A cop asked me for directions today, to my surprise I was able to answer him in Spanish. I guess this means it's time to move on to Uruguay

9-Mar-2010 - watched a motorbike crashing into the back of an ambulance which was trying to cross the 20 lane wide Avenida 9 de Julio at a red light

5-Mar-2010 - is surprised to discover that there are more record shops and book stores in Buenos Aires than in London.

2-Mar-2010 - is enjoying Buenos Aires very much. It just became one of my top 10 favourite cities.

26-Feb-2010 - arrived in the 4th Buenos Aires on this trip, but this time it is the proper one. It reminds me of Madrid a bit but feels much bigger.

14-Feb-2010 - reached Rio Gallegos, the south end of mainland Argentina, also my southernmost point ever. No Tierra del Fuego or Antartica this time

3-Feb-2010 - Reached one end of the Panamericana in Puerto Montt, Southern Chile. It was a long way from Seattle Wa.

17-Jan-2010 - is enjoying a swim in the pool, the first one in a hostel since Nicaragua. The Pacific in Chile is just too cold, even in the summer.

12-Jan-2010 - is back at the Pacific after 110 days in the Andes, also crossed the tropic of Capricorn

12-Jan-2010 - is walking through the dryist desert (Atacama desert) on the planet.

10-Jan-2010 - is celebrating his 500th day on the road in Latin America on the Salt flats of Southern Bolivia

27-Dec-2009 - White christmas at 5380 m (17400ft) near La Paz

21-Dec-2009 - counted over 60 mosquito bites so far, I covered my hands and legs, so they went for my back and shoulders those little buggers

21-Dec-2009 - First flight in 15 months, also first landing on a sand strip rather than a runway. It was nice to see the Andes from above for a change.

21-Dec-2009 - Here in the Amazon I saw more animals on one day than on the previous 475 days together.

21-Dec-2009 - 45 minutes on the plane or 18 hours on a lousy bus, guess what I chose.

12-Dec-2009 - just learned that to an Bolivian hairdresser "numero quatro completo" means "please shave all my hair off"

6-Dec-2009 - General elections today in Bolivia, everything is very quiet and the streets are closed. Tonight after the results are out we expect a party

1-Dec-2009 - is asking all pop fans to vote in the 16th annual TweeNet poll. Please go to http://twee.net/list/polls/poll.html to cast your votes.

29-Oct-2009 - just lost his Lonely Planet for South America, so now without a guidebook, the real adventure begins.

29-Oct-2009 - is not cycling down the most dangerous road in the world near La Paz. If dozens of gringos do it every day, how dangerous can it be?

29-Oct-2009 - missed getting a free T-Shirt because he could not finish the hottest curry in Bolivia

28-Oct-2009 - is walking along lake Titicaca from Peru into Bolivia

16-Oct-2009 - is thinking of John Peel while walking through Cusco where he did 5 years ago

28-Sep-2009 - just created a stack overflow using an infinite recursion. It's because I trimmed some of my code to make it open source. App crashed badly.

27-Sep-2009 - saw a Nakamichi Dragon in someone's house but can't remember where it was.

26-Sep-2009 - is wondering why every Chaufa (Chinese fried rice) is Latin America comes in huge portions but still costs less 1 Euro

19-Sep-2009 - is looking back on 15 years of the Indiepop mailing list

19-Sep-2009 - is flying over the Nasca Lines in Southern Peru

5-Sep-2009 - got kicked out of a club in Lima because his new local friends started a fight on the dancefloor

5-Sep-2009 - is dancing to great Argentinian pop songs in a club in Lima

4-Sep-2009 - is wandering the streets of a very overcast Lima

28-Aug-2009 - is celebrating one year on the road in the Americas

28-Aug-2009 - is riding a chicken bus from the Pacific beaches to the snow capped peaks of the Andes

20-Aug-2009 - is spending 14 hours on dirt roads on the way into Peru

20-Aug-2009 - is taking a shower under a 771m (2529ft) tall waterfall in Northern Peru

6-Aug-2009 - is watching whales and funny birds at the Ecuadorian Pacific coast

6-Aug-2009 - is hiking around volcano Quilotoa on its rim for five hours

5-Aug-2009 - is over 5000m for the first time at the glacier of volcana Cotopaxi in Ecuador

24-Jul-2009 - is singing along with Jim Jiminee in the streets of Quito

24-Jul-2009 - won the pub quiz at the Secret Garden hostel in Quito

22-Jul-2009 - Hiked up to my first 15000ft+ peak at the Pichincha Volcano near Quito

20-Jul-2009 - is "crossing the line" near Quito in Ecuador

18-Jul-2009 - is shopping on the market in Otavalo, Northern Ecuador

16-Jul-2009 - is crossing into Ecuador

8-Jul-2009 - having a nice cup of java in the coffee region of Colombia

21-Jun-2009 - just visited the Gold and the National museums in Bogota

20-Jun-2009 - being interviewed for cdcradio in Bogota

19-Jun-2009 - Went to see the Andy Warhol exhibition in Bogota but the works of Fernando Botero were just as interesting

18-Jun-2009 - is browsing through CDs at Tower Records and that brings back memories

6-Jun-2009 - is rediscovering S Club 7 in the mountains of Venezuela

9-May-2009 - is riding the Panama canal train from the Atlantic to the Pacific

3-May-2009 - did finally see a Quetzal in the mountains of Northern Panama

20-Apr-2009 - My main twitter acount is 'hahndorf', 'tweenet' is for music news only and 'peterhahndorf' is for dev testing. Pls follow the correct one.

19-Apr-2009 - is hiking through the amazing cloud forest in Costa Rica

23-Mar-2009 - is listening to Biff Bang Pow on the Pacific beaches in Nicaragua

18-Mar-2009 - busing through the Sandinista heartland in Nicaragua

14-Mar-2009 - doing some Oh! and Wow! snorkeling on Utila in Honduras

12-Mar-2009 - Snorkeling on the bay islands in Honduras

7-Mar-2009 - Exploring more of blazing hot San Salvador

6-Mar-2009 - getting lost in San Salvador

4-Mar-2009 - swimming in the pools below the Juayua waterfalls in El Salvador

3-Mar-2009 - walking along the Ruta de las Flores in El Salvador

1-Mar-2009 - listening to the Razorcuts in the smog-filled streets of Guatemala City

25-Feb-2009 - is still suffering from muscle ache and is playing with Windows 7

24-Feb-2009 - is recovering from major hike, downloading Windows 7

23-Feb-2009 - is hiking up to the Santa Maria volcano in Guatemala, 3770 meters high.

22-Feb-2009 - coding against the Twitter API in Xela in Guatemala

31-Jan-2009 - Swimming in the pools of beautiful Semuc Champey in Guatemala

30-Aug-2008 - Arrived in Seattle, staying with Art, Heather and India

27-May-2008 - still not getting this whole twitter thing,

12-Dec-2007 - Listen to podcasts while traveling around the world