Awesome Traveling Service Provided by the South American Explorers
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
I found this thing called the South American Explorers. Sure, I joined. I don’t know what I think about the name, and definitely their website is from another time. And that time was not a simpler time, but hey, they offer a totally worthwhile service.
They will store your sh*t. No sh*t! Backpack. Mail. Whatever.
So, get this. If you are relocating to South America you can mail yourself a package and it will be there in South America when you arrive.
I’m going to use this service to mail myself a crate of books (screenwriting, etc.) and maybe my guitar. I don’t want any hassles on the plane, books are heavy, and I don’t want go looking for a place to stay the first night with 40 pounds of printed matter.
The basic fee to join is $50 bucks. They maintain “clubhouses” in Quito, Cusco, Lima, and Buenos Aires with the main headquarters in Ithaca, New York.
Their clubhouses have wireless Internet. Boo-yeah. Apparently members are welcome to hangout at the clubhouse all day everyday until they close.
They offer travelers information on useful topics and try to create “greater awareness of this continent through the diffusion of information and cross cultural interaction,” all that good stuff… but man, I hope they can store some sh*t.
Totally worth the fifty bucks right there.
The clubhouses look pretty cool, like old colonial. Like you might go in and someone might be smoking a sugary sweet tobacco out of a cherrywood pipe, and you might hear them say “it’s good to own land, Stevens, I tell you it’s good to own land.”
I’ll be there using the high-speed Internet, away from all the kids playing Doom 57 in the Internet cafes.
Yes, sir. And they give d*scounts to bloggers who blog about them.
-J Roland Kelly
