How u doing guys? Hope you doing well, it's been a while since my last post here, I've been in everywhere and nowhere at the same time, wild times have been happening into my personal life and my dev/bitcoin/hive life, so first of all, what the hell is Monero Town, well it's a city that use monero, is not that hard.
In Ibarreta, Formosa Province, Argentina there's a great Monero Community that was created by @alessandrodkt an Argentinian guy with a lot of experience on these things and a Monero/Bitcoin enthusiast.
Ibarreta is a really far place (For me) in Formosa, you need to travel around 8 hours in total from Asuncion, Paraguay to get there, but it's a cool place to visit.
I was supposed to come Asuncion for a event (I'm rn in Paraguay with nothing to do meanwhile I do this post) but I made a better movement.
I was in home thinking the day and the hour to go Paraguay and come back, but then I remembered that @alessandrodkt lived in Ibarreta and that now he have a Padel place called @cakepadel so I decided to find a good way to get there, so in July 31th I got a flight from Bogota to Paraguay with a stop in Panama, the place where I got stopped 19 hours because I didn’t get allowed to go into Mexico for Talent Land, @josepimpo helped me to get there 2 days after that experience.
The Panama stop was a stop of 25 hours, so I said, I should go in there and meet where my passport visited without me.
So I got there and got out and rented a car for 50USD and booked a hotel for other 50USD, I got into Panama like at 8PM, and if you don't know I use glasses because I'm fucking blind, and idk who said it was a good idea let me drive at night.
The first problem was: I didn't had internet - No internet no Google Maps.
And you gonna said, are you idiot? there's signs in the road that says where you going, but I never been in Panama so I didn't understood any sign, only Highways names in there.
So I asked the guy in the parking lot where I can get free internet and he told me how, the thing is that Panama Accent and Colombian accent is really different, that's funny because few years ago that was Colombia, anyway, I didn't understood so I got out and start following a bus and drived, I drove like 5 minutes in the wrong path cause I didn't know they had a stop path in the highway, so I got into the real path and keep driving until I got to a mall, so I parked the car there for free, and then went into KFC and asked for internet and they told me to go a bank next door, I went there got internet and got maps.
I was hungry so I got a burger there and I went again to the car and said, ok, let's put some Chicago music and drive to the hotel, and when I tried to turn on the car it didn't worked, it made a sound like it was dying, and I said fuck, now this car don't want to start.
So I remembered my full driving school and mechanical school and I checked these things:
- Does the Car have fuel? Yes it does.
- Is the key in the car? Yes.
- Are you pushing clutch? Yes.
SO WHY THIS CAR DON'T TURN ON?
So I called a friend to don't feel alone and said, and started thinking, maybe it's the battery, but I was able to turn on the lights, radio and A/C.
So it's not a battery problem, maybe it's the gasoline, but it had 3 bars of gasoline, so it was not that, maybe it's because you don't have the seatbelt, so I put the seatbelt and tried but that was not the problem.
Maybe you need to put first gear, so I made that and tried and didn't worked, so now in Neutral, I put neutral and didn't work.
So I called the Car rental agency and they send me a mechanical and said, the problem is the battery.
Changed the battery in 2 minutes and the car turn on.
So I got in the car put music and started driving, then I realized I didn't had anything to hold the phone to see the map, so I started driving and remember that at the agency they told me to be very careful with tolls because they are automatic and if I returned the car without the balance in the Panapass system, they will charge 20USD, and I was like, shit I need to be very careful, cause okay, my flight tickets get covered by @valueplan but not this Panama trip (Don't worry, it was not more expensive with this stop in Panama, I got the most efficient and cheap flight ticket to go Paraguay), I followed Google Maps instruction meanwhile listen my music, and it got me through a highway and started looking like a mini house in the road, when I got more close I realized it was a toll, and I tried to find a exit, but there was no one, so it automatically got the money and allowed me to go in there, it was really cool cause you can drive like at 130KM/H thing that you can't in Colombia due geography, but I was scared not because of velocity, it was because the tolls, cause automatically they start charging any X KM, so if you started in KM 1 and you get out in KM 20, they charge you for your 20KM, so I tried to get the first exit, and got into the worse one, cause I got into the Panama City center, everyone was there, a lot of people, taxis without lights and with some damages (so you can know they don't know how to drive) and I said okay, I just need to calm down and drive, and started driving in the middle path, and I wanted to switch to the right one, and I looked in the mirror and turned back my head to see if there was a car, and there wasn't a car, and when I started turning to the right, a CRAZY FUCKING TAXI WITHOUT LIGHTS LITERALLY RUN AT 10CM OF ME, and also he made biiiiiiiiiip because I changed my path, but he didn't have lights idk who have the reason there, I would say that I have the reason but idk, judge me.
I got into the hotel in 1H... I was supposed to get there in 20 minutes, but you know, you need to meet Panama, it was my first time driving solo, and I made it in another country at night, so I think it was good experience.
I got into the hotel and dreamed about pancakes and hivedebit, and the next day at 7PM I said, okay I need to go to the best places of Panama, so I first went in the car to the Panama Old Town, also I didn't show you my car, I choosed this one because it was manual and automatic is for pretty young ladies.
A Suzuki Alto!
I wanted a Jeep but they didn't had, so I got this car for me. as you can see I'm a profesional parker, because I know how to park in reverse, go try that with a 20 year old gringo with an automatic car.
Anyway, I started driving to Old Panama and I found why sometimes is a pain in the ass to have a car, and it's basically cause you can't find where to park. it took me 10 minutes to know where to park.
I found a park lot for 5USD and stopped the car and disconnected battery to be sure is not going to fail again.
My first mission was to meet something and I ended in the worse place a Nationalist Colombian as me can be.
The place where Panama defeated Colombia for independence.
I got a little bit mad at it, but I know that In my presidency I'll get it back.
So, I got a good breakfast for 11USD (Expensive as hell, remember that in Colombia you can have breakfast for 3USD)
Then I got back to my car and started playing some depressive music cause some bad things have happened to me, as my gf broke with me, I don't like to share few stuff of my personal life for internal reasons, but I had a girlfriend for 2 years since school and she broke with me because I changed my personality as she wanted but now she didn't liked, and I was well brought up by Mono, romantic music make you think about getting married with the woman that you more love in your life, and in my mind the way life works in a good way is that first of all you need to have a good woman/men in your life cause you need to share your histories with someone, rn I don't have someone to talk and I realized I don't have any closer friends to talk with me, only few of them like @starkerz, so you need to have someone to talk and to love, you need a good job in something that you like, and you need to have a good house (Literally a House, with your family or couple, but not alone), with these three things you can have more let's say power to do things, but now I feel like everything is like $LUNA (it crashed really hard to zero).
So with this music I started driving to THE PANAMA CHANNEL, my mission was to see how Panama make money, and the reason is the Panama Channel, there's a lot of ships going through there, so I drived there between the Panama Jungle and highways and was really cool, a great experience, 60-140KM and depressive music it's cool, but don't worry after 30 minutes I got tired of depressive music and put something different that I'll recommend you:
The Chicago Story
The greatest and best hits of Chicago, so I drove to the Panama channel and paid 17USD to get into there, so you can be at the Panama channel and see all the operation, and also you can watch the movie of the Panama Channel with Morgan Freeman on it, I didn't had time to watch the movie but I saw the ships going through the channel.
After that, I got into my car again and started driving to a mini town at the coast called Veracruz, I got there and got gasoline, like 11USD (really efficient car) and stopped at a restaurant to eat, and then back to the car.
My flight from Panama to Paraguay departed at 9PM, so you need to be around 6PM at the airport, it was already 4PM after lunch in Veracruz, so I started driving and traffic started at the same time, it was a cool experience, I was one of the 5% drivers with manual system in the entire traffic, and if you drive a manual you know that sometimes your car can turn off if you do something wrong, I thought it was going to happen me cause we accelerated few centimeters and then stop, but the first half hour didn't happened, it happened to me a few times ngl, but not in important situations, maybe in a corner or something like that where I was stopped.
I got into the airport and parked the car and got all my stuff out, went into migration and once I got through migration the Rental Agency told me that I leaved my vaccination card at the booth, and yes I'm vaccinated against yellow fever because I got it when I was 2 years old don't judge me, as socialist people would say, "They didn't asked me if I wanted".
And @arlettemsalase told me I need it to go into Paraguay, so I told migration what happened and they allowed me to go into Panama again, I got it and then boarded the plane, once I got into Paraguay migration they just asked for the Passport and not for the vaccination card, I got a little bit angry but it is what it is.
I just said I'm gonna go Argentina, and they said, "Oh, Ok go ahead then".
So I waited for 5 hours in the airport meanwhile the time was Ok to go to the Bus Terminal, I got in the terminal and took a bus from Asuncion to Formosa Capital.
And I'm gonna get excited here cause Argentina is the best country in the world, I think Colombia is a shit of country and is risky, it's my country but we are honest with the people, normally Colombians hate Argentinians, but I love Argentina and would resign to my nationality if I get the Argentinian one, Argentinians love each other, Argentinian music is great, Argentinian stuff IS GREAT! idk why @starkerz took Malvinas, please give them again to Argentina.
So, it was really funny because, you need to get in the bus in Asuncion, Capital of Paraguay, and drive to Jose Falcon, the border with Argentina, the bus stop there and everyone needs to go down, and once I get off of the bus, a Paraguayan men ask me if I had something with me to get into Argentina and Idk why I thought he was a border agent and I said "My laptop", he said they not gonna let you go into Argentina with it, give it to me and a few usd and you gonna have it in the other side, and my Colombian instincts said, "My great grandparents saved this motherfucker country and now they think I'm stupid huh", so I sad fuck off I don't give a shit if Argentinians don't let me go in with my laptop (I knew that they gonna let me go through with all my stuff), so I went into the scanner and they stopped me for my second baggage, and I said shit, the fucking and awesome @hivedebit cards.
And they open the bag and saw a lot of HiveDebit cards and said, hey yo what is this. And I said is a Crypto currency blockchain, so they asked me a lot of stuff, and now they know what Hive, NFC and Bitcoin is!.
They grant me access with a warning because I'm not Argentinian, so that's ilegal, but they saw I didn't had bad intentions with the cards.
After 2 hours I got into Formosa, and I stayed in the house of @crist.ian19 for a few hours meanwhile a car went there for me to take me to Ibarreta, after 5 hours I started the car journey and the motherfucker stoped in every single place 8 stops to get there, similar to a Rapido Tolima bus.
After 4 FUCKING HOURS I GOT THERE, IF I DRIVED I'M SURE IT WAS 2 HOURS.
So after not feeling my ass for 4 hours I got Ibarreta thanks to @alessandrodkt and he showed me my Ibarreta house, a Cool house and nice place.
I stayed there for a week, onboarded exactly 21 users thanks to CheckInWith, powered by @starkerz and 5 business thanks to @distriator .
So now you can go Ibarreta and see Hive there!
After my Ibarreta experience eating meat all the days and empanadas and eating in YPF I went back to Formosa and stayed one day, at the next day I got a bus to go from Alberdi, Paraguay (Alberdi is literally the city at one side of formosa divided by the Paraguay River) to Asuncion, I got to Asuncion after 2 hours and a half and went to the Airport to receive @arlettemsalase, then we went to the event (not the best event) and now I'm here with nothing to do in Paraguay, I have only a Bacardi bottle with me and my music here at Asuncion!
It was a good journey and I'm waiting to get my country to eat good meals.
Also, I know I'm hivedebit developer, The entire dev team of hivedebit like:
Frontend: @jthomasewsky
Backend: @jthomasewsky
Full-Stack dev: @jthomasewsky
Coffee Guy: @jthomasewsky
Personal Hooker: @jthomasewsky
Are happy to announce that in the next weeks you gonna see the best face of Hivedebit.
Please give me a like cause I spent a lot of money in Paraguay and I don't have money to get pancakes, no pancakes no hivedebit.
Also thanks for reading this thing, this is more large than a HiveDebit update, but I made a lot of stuff in this trip, also if you want to know how much money did I got from valueplan for this, I just got around 1.1k, you can see at the blockchain, I used like 640 for flight tickets and 420 for ubers, eat and similar stuff but Paraguay is not that cheap and my plans of going in Car to Ciudad del Este got crashed after experienced Hiperinflation in Argentina!