Small turns in the road

It's funny when you trace back to the cause of things and see that small turn in the road and see the way it has taken you. Can it really be those small decisions so long ago that brings you to where you are? Sometimes I think that this is true, it is when fate comes into your life and takes you where you are meant to be.

For example I can trace where I am all the way back to Chile and an evening walk with Nick after a lovely meal that has led us to where we are right now....

We went to organise our Salar De Uyuni trip and it was just after dusk and we were walking down the little streets of San Pedro de Atacama. We went to a few different tour companies and got quotes and the final one we came to had a big selling point => "Chicas de Suisia" was the turning point in the road... Yes a tour with Swedish chicks, how could we say no? So we paid our money and organised to meet the next day for the start of our trip. We slept that night with dogs running around our tent and the crisp coolness of the driest desert on earth. The following morning we packed our tent up and set to leave......

And on that tour we meet not only Chicas de Suisia but also a Polish (Aska) and an Australian girl (George) who would end up changing the course of our lives....

Because of these two (in addition to many cool on the road tales of mines in Bolivia, nights out in La Paz and beach nights in Peru) I got my job in the pub, maintained the determination to stay in London, met Farah (as I met her through my job in the pub), got my current job at Visa as I would have left London before it happened if George hadnt convinced me to stay after listening to all my complaining, met Michael at the pub whose house I live in now.... I mean I could list many other things... but the point is I wouldnt be here if we didnt take that tour on that day... amazing....

I know we could dissect our lives endlessly this way, but sometimes it is nice to see the small things we do that end up defining so much of the rest of our lives. So guess we never know when destiny will happen and fate will decide.....

Well I am moved into our new place. It's great.... big living area, big bedroom and big kitchen... it is too good... and some morning in the coming months I will look out my window and see snow and I will be so happy ...... London the "ball buster" as a friend once called it.... well I think I will survive.... that and then some I think!

My land line is +44 2089645094 , I have broadband on 24-7 so I will be about on the web if anyone wants to say hello.... And it's only 18 days from the shortest day of the year and it's all looking nice from where I sit.... :-)