From elaine
HI Gayle
I just love reading your updates and check in regularly to see how life is going! Its same old same old here - am sure that Anita has been keeping you updated!! Keep posting your fantastic updates!! Stay safe...~Elaine
Response: Hi Elaine!Great to hear from you!!I hope I didnt miss much with September and all.....Im ashamed to say it but I miss Insomnia coffee!!!For all their coffee producing here you still get Nescafe instant on the table.Well, I hope everyone is well in Quinn and that the new semester wasnt too painful.Chat soon!!
From Kelly
Gayle,
How are you? Wonderful to read about your adventures and ashamed to say this is my first time on here! In my defense I have been incredible busy since you left. I've been in Scotland a week and am loving it. Tom went over ahead of me and found us a cool 2 bed apartment in a very trendy,central area. He is 2 weeks into his course and has handed in 3 assignments already! Crazy busy but he is really enjoying it. Today is the 1st day of my new job as Procurement Officer at the University of Dundee. Going well so far but will fill you in in more detail by email. Hope this finds you well and happy and the adventures keep coming. Miss you, especially the last month or so, glad to be out of UCD, my last few weeks were not the same without you. xoxox
Response: Hey Kelly how are you?Can you send me an email to my gmail?Everytime I send a mail to your address its failing!!Glad to hear that all is good with you and Tom and that Scotland is working out for you..hows my blender??Hope you got all your stuff over all right in the end!!Talk soon properly I miss you too!!....best of luck in the new job and keep in touch! xxxxx
From Anita
Hi Gayle
Glad to see read that you are doing ok, in spite of the mozzies! We all miss you here and everyone says hello and take care of yourself
Besos
Anita
x
Response: Hey Anita, how is everything in Quinn!!I hope that september wasnt too painful.....let me know how the two Sarahs are doin!!You must have loads of other new people by now too..boo hoo...I hope that all is well with you and I´m sorry but I havent had really any time until now to write to people!Take care and take it easy!
From AOC
Hi Gayle!
Wow, I'm massively overdue in looking up this page and writing to you. My phone went on an almost 2 month holiday with my friend to Copenhagen and just returned today. Make sense of that. So I have just retrieved the text with your email and this site.
I am amazed by the detail in your writing, it really jumps out at you how amazing the experience you are having is. I'm sorely jealous. You've sure got a way with words, and indigenous people!
I wait with bated eyes for the next update. Hope you are doing great and sorry I wasn't able to talk to you in the days before you left.
AOC
Response: Hey hey!!How are you?I hope your phone had a nice time in Copenhagen!!Glad to hear that youre ok....a bit of confusion with your birthday present...long story but it got sent back to my parents´house as Chris didnt collect it from the post office,... it didnt fit through his dads letterbox.Its that big you know.Not his fault..just one of those things...Anyway Ive mailed him again, to ask if he minds if I send it again so I hope that you get it before Christmas!!Take it easy and its good to hear from you.Gayle ;)
From Erin
Hi Gayle, Not sure if you received my last message. I think my computer froze so possible it didn't go through. I'm really enjoying your comments and observations. Keep them coming. It sounds amazing. Enjoy the trip.
Response: Hey Erin how are you?So glad to hear from you!I hope that the job is working out for you..if you see my friend Bolivian friend Nuri knocking about say hello for me!!Anyway you off to the promised land again thisa year or have you been already??Let me know what your up to!!Take care and chat soon. x
From Steph
Hey Gayle
Great to read about your travels here. What an experience! What was the website you used again to organise this trip?
From Sarah
Hey there!!
Glad you made it in one piece, and that you have continued my travels!! Its great to be home though, back at work this week though, can't get used to the early mornings.... Your blog is great, it makes me want to re-write my one as it seems so mundane in comparison!! Keep it up and can't wait to see the pictures!! Say hi to Merixtell for me,
Keep safe and well
Sarah!!
Response: Yo yo.. whats the story!!I hope that your settling into working life again ...where are you now actually...awwh is it raining in Wexford??Well its 25 degrees here!!Ahhh, only messin its kinda too hot for me really and ive sorely accumulated muchas muchas freckles!!Let me know how you are and I´m putting up more photos soon.... its just really slow here!!Take it easy !!Gayle
From paul
Hi Gayle, super diary entries, I just came across your text today with your web address, what an adventure.. looking forward to next update.
All the best
Paul (at Oxfam Ireland)
Response: Hey Paul how are you!!I hope that you have more volunteers to help you out with the Christmas ´Unwrapping´!!How is everything in Oxfam??Say hello to everyone for me and I promise a postcard is on the way, it just takes two months from here!!
From Sarah D
Hi G,
Glad to see you made it alive!
Seems like you're enjoying yourself already which is great. Missing you loads around here, but I know we have to sacifice you for the greater good! Whats with the Nietzsche by the way, feeling a bit nihilistic are we?!?
Anyway, kepp us posted
xxx
Response: Hey hey missus how are ya getting on??I hope that the job is going great and I didnt leave too much carnage...Let me know how the thesis went!!Take care and sorry for the late reply the rainforest doesnt do much in the line of telecommunications... jungle whistles and hand signs don´t get me anywhere, it seems....anyway let me know how everyone is and how youre getting on...I think loose me mi Ingles..Later, chicita xxGayle
From dorothy
Such a nice surprise when I went to your website. Am enthralled with your diary and am hooked already on your adventure. Wish you all the best and I would recommend lots of that dancing, good for everything, morale, figure and fun. Bon courage and chin up, good to be out of the irish rain. Will keep checking on your progress. Lots of love
From Debbie
Hi Gayle,
Nice to know you've arrived safely. Its great to be able to keep in touch with you. Enjoy your wanderings. The sun is shining in Manchester for a change. Lots of love Debbie (AKA Aunty Debbie) which makes me sound really old so I won't use it. X
Response: Hi Dorothy!!Yea thiungs are brilliant here at the moment.Just back from the mpuintains and will have lots of photos soon!!Off to the rainforest tomorrow for more newness!!Take care and keep in touch if you can!!
From Maeve Houlihan
Gayle,
I'm so sorry I didn't see you before you go but did want to send you on your way with a huge cheer - you've been a great heart around Quinn for so long it won't be the same without you but you but it is magic to see you set off on this adventure and I will follow your journey with great smiles. May the road rise to meet you my friend!
Maeve
Response: Thanks Maeve!!I'll miss our little chats! Best of luck with the book and conference!!Stay in touch!Gayle
From Elena and Sean
Hi Gale
Both Elena and I are in Geneva for the summer and so didnt get a chance to bid you farewell. Have a wonderful time and I'm sure our paths will cross again at some stage. Thanks for everything. You have always been so wonderfully helpful in every way.
Best wishes
Elena and Sean
Response: Thanks a million!!Have a great time and it was lovely working with you both.Take care, Gayle .
From Evelyn
Gayle,
We'll miss you so much - but hope that you have a great adventure. I look forward to keeping up to date with all your news on this webpage.
Keep safe, Evelyn.
Response: Thanks Evelyn, it was so lovely working with you!!I'll miss your funky jewellery and your good kind, humour :you even encourage smiling on your door sign!Keep in touch!
From rosaleen
Gayle, I miss drinking bottles of wine with you and talking similar cheese. Keep up with the postings, and i will drink wine while i read back what you write. And as the wine works its magic I will even talk back to the computer screen as though we have those days back again.
The warmth of south and central america sounds just lovely now as I freeze my little digits off in what some might describe as the south pacific..when actually its northern antarctica.
Best of luck with this great adventure.
Rosaleen x
Response: Me too!!!Could you pop over to Guatemala or Nicaragua for a quick coffee?I won't keep ya long I promise!!Do you mind if I post this?Too late!I'm glad you're settling in: so drink up and read on!!Call me before I go if you can!It was so lovely chatting with you last week: I really do miss the cheese on wine man!!oo hoo.But anyway i'll mail my first impressions of Quito as soon as I find them!!Take care and talk soon beautiful!!!Gayle