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Juan Pablo Villarino

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“Thanks a lot, Tyler, for the opportunity and yeah, just last word for the audience. Every dream is given to you with the power to make it come true, so go for it.”
2018-07-03 · Conversations with Tyler · Juan Pablo Villarino on Travel and Trust · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I haven't. I said at the beginning, I envy you, and that's one reason why. Okay, so Soriyami is a must, I think, for any person who wants to explore a present destination. I mean, if you want to explore a place in nobody's world, everything is explored. But Suriname is a place. First of all, people in South America don't even know anything about Suriname, you know. And the amazing thing is they are probably the only Hindu country in South America like a huge percentage of their population descends from people who were brought as a cheap labor force from either Java by the Dutch or by the British from India. So the people from India, they wrote their religion with them. Some of them are Muslim, but some of them are also Hindu. So you are traveling on the main road in Suriname, and you would see 20 feet tall statue of Shiva. And then you would arrive to the town and people are eating.”
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“Exactly, it's on my list. And what I want to do is actually to get 19th century maps in order to go from Berlin to Koenigsburg or Kaliningrad following the road of old towns, which used to have German names, but now they have Lithuanian, Polish, or Russian names, and to see what is left from that time. I have seen there are ruined palaces and ruined Lutheran churches. So I want to check that out, and I want to play with this thing of traveling with a 19th century map.”
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“Yeah, that was a place. But I think now I would like to do, there's a trip I would like to do to a place called Kaliningrad, which is a Russian exclave in mainland Europe.”
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“Okay, so my next plan trip, you mean? I think in the long, well, not long term, but next year we want to go back to Africa because we really love Africa, Tanzania”
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“Yeah, I think there I have my record. I only spent $30 in 22 days because I think also in these kind of countries, first of all, food in supermarkets is never expensive. And then you normally always receive help from people and people also because they have hitchhik before or they have heard about it. So it's not even necessarily related with the fact that they still hitchhike or not because no one else is hitchhiking nowadays, like in Norway or even here, even though here it's part of the culture, let's say, in the 60s. But no, I think it would be definitely be doable”
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“No, I think it would be definitely possible. Like, people tend to think, which is normal, of course, that the more expensive a country is, then the most difficult or expensive it would be to travel there. But the interesting thing is that, for example, in a country like Norway, which is probably more expensive than the US.”
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“to self publish it because people could directly ask the book from us so we didn't need a middleman. That is effective for a middle size market like Argentina but probably wouldn't be the case like in the US or the UK or countries which are not like my stronghold for followers but that really changed a lot like really the decision of switching from published books with a large publishing house to self-publishing through social media afforded us to have like a better standalone of living. That was definitely the case. But now it's again the term of finding a partner in a publishing house if we want to expand to new markets.”
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“With my backpack and a big world map showing my route, it was very curious and I had my Afghan head with me. So the first thing people would see when they entered the book fair was this weird guy with an Afghan hat and a backpack selling these little books. So it was a success. And then the big publishing houses from Buenos Aires noticed that, okay, which was the best-selling book in Mardi Plata's book there? What's this hitchhiking deck of evil? Who is this guy? I mean, this doesn't even have publisher. So then I was published by the Newextremo and RBI publishing houses in Argentina and Spain respectively. And I stayed with only seven years. But doing those seven years, social media really changed the way artists can promote their products. So in Argentina, at least, I decided to, even though I had contracts to publish my second book, which was Caminos Invisibles or Invisible Roots, even though I had offers, Laura and I, this”
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“Bogs, right? Everything is publishing. So when I first brought the book, I had just finished my two year trips from Ireland across Middle East and Iran, Afghanistan, and I arrived to Southeast Asia. I took a rest there. I made a pause and started writing the book. In the first format, it was like 100 pages photocopied book. And I would walk around the streets of Bangkok and the beaches in Thailand to sell it to other travelers. And when I came back to Argentina, I decided to try to get it published properly. So the first thing I did was expanding the book to 200 pages, go to a printing place. So it wasn't photocopied anymore, but I was still self-publishing and selling it in person. And then over the time, so I was invited to a book fair with my own self-published books. And I managed to sell a lot of books because I was, there was a bookstore that had a loomy little space and I was...”
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“It evolves a lot already, actually. Tell us. So as I said, this started as photocopy books, just like 50 to 100 pages. When I published a very generous word for going to a photocopy place and ordering 50 copies of this.”
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“In that time, my books were not like there now, they were handmade photocopy books, just a bunch of A4 size paper stapled together, and I would sell them around in bars and hostels. And I just decided, okay, it kind of gets worse than that. I mean, if the worst possible scenario is I would be like an old hippie going around Southeast Asia, sharing inspiration with the younger travelers and making a living out of it. Welcome. I mean, I can go for that. It will look nice in my biography. So after that, then I never again had fears of the future retirement.”
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“In the longer term, I think it's, you know, that when I made this decision of traveling for life, one of the things I was afraid was, of course, this economic stability. People were asking me, okay, but what are you going to do in the long run? Okay, you can do this because you're young, but what are you going to do when you are 40? And the things I'm already 40, but they were asking me this when I was 20, and they were forecasting, oh, when you're 30, you're going to understand you should have kids and this. And then I turn 30, and now it's our 40, and I keep doing the same stuff. I think Oscar Wilde said that the only way not to get old was to continue repeating the same mistakes. He will be proud of me. But when I took this decision, I kind of imagined, okay, what's the worst possible scenario? What can the worst happen to me?”
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“Will That's something that is definitely going to happen. I think the next movie is trying to make the books available in the US or in the UK because I feel that's a place where the books are necessary even more than in my home country because that's where decisions are being made. And that's my whole concept of travel literature is to try to change people's views and make them have empathy and also affect the decisions they take in life. So I would that would be like my next big challenge to get published in the US. But as regards lifestyle, I think I will continue making long trips and publishing books, that for sure.”
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“Okay, you mean in the short term or let's start with the retirement? So the short term, I think I just keep doing what I'm doing. As I said, like...”
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“In the north, so definitely it's a, I love the northwest, which is also the grounds in which randomly I happen to take the decision of becoming nomadic, so it's Salta Province in the city. In the Kalchaki Valleys. That's where in 2002 I kind of had this insight and I said, okay, yeah, I should go for this”
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“Now, you have to meet local friends and do it in a Sunday with local people. I mean, you can't go to a restaurant. You can go to a restaurant and ask for the best steak they can produce, but you're going to just be seated there in the restaurant alone. But there's a whole social ritual around preparing the barbecue, the asado. And that's something that will make you understand a lot of things about Argentinian culture, you know, people speaking about soccer results and so on. politics. So, yeah, that should be something that shouldn't be missed.”
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“Yeah, that's the thing. Everyone wants to tick the list of the bucket list. So probably I would add the glaciers, the Perito Moreno glaciers in the south because Patagonia is an extensive place full of wonderful scenarios, but definitely you should at least eat an asado. Our barbecues. Which we call ASA. That's like a typical Argentinian experience. And where is that best?”
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“Those are also my two favorites from your country. Yeah, I like the way they, you know, they just complement each other. I like Cortassa because he mixes the intellectual game of writing with the very Bohemian sense of his lifestyle in what he was in Paris. So that probably inspired me a lot when taking the decision to leave as a wandering artist.”
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“I like two others actually which people tend to consider contradictory. One is Julio Cortasar. Which I love especially how to translate Rajua. Hopscotch. Yes. One of my favorite novels also. Definitely. I love Hopswatch.”
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“Well, the church hasn't really changed in like 2,000 years. I think they just hold a romantic and symbolic position. So I don't see they're not fighting any battle. I can ostensibly see. So I cannot be, I don't know over what I have to be optimistic or not. I just find it funny that we have a pope from our country.”
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“I think I'm optimistic in the long run, but not in the present government we have now. I'm not optimistic at all about the present government we have now.”
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“I think we have survived so many crises that I think we still have the wood to stand actually now. As we talk now, there's a huge climate of uncertainty and the exchange rate with the dollar has switched like 10% in two days. But yeah, this is made.”
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“To what I think the richness of the country relies actually on the complexity because you couldn't say Argentina is an European country. We have an important percentage of the population who descends from Europeans, but these people also mix with the original inhabitants of our land. I think it happens similarly in the US in the way that you also had your original people living here, which were gradually moved west. And well, then, you know, it happened with us in Argentina the same that happened here. Most of our culture was erased. But those who stayed, they combined and they made the society we have today. So it's definitely a mix and it's not like a European country. Though some people like to see it as, oh, we are a elite, we are different, we are better, we're just different, but we're not better, you know.”
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“They came from Sicily. But normally they would take the ship from Genoa, which is the standard place where you would board the ship. And actually, my family is half Italian, the same as most probably 50% of people in Argentina. That's the average case. Sorry, your question was, why we're not as rich as Australia? Yeah, I think there was a turn in the, I mean. In our history, somewhere in the late 60s or yeah, where the military governments really had an economic agenda which was not set by our own people, but by international entities such as IMF and the World Bank. So I think we owe a big deal to that for changing the tithe.”
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“Yeah, yeah, it used to be like in the top 10 richest countries in the world, and that's actually why my grandparents, no, actually my grandparents went there in the 1920s. I still have the ship ticket, the steamship ticket in which did they leave from? Italy.”
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“The most probable place would be those. Probably Australia as well. But in the rest of Latin America. So that made Argentina a very complex, demographically speaking. So then we have a lot of provinces which are far a world away from the standard of living of Buenos Aires, like the north and the far north. And definitely our elites just don't get there. And that's the areas of the country where development never reaches there.”
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“Argent Insulated and removed from it. No, no, I think they are. They understand, but that doesn't mean that they can feel empathy for them or that they want to do something to improve it. I mean, of course, they know who are the governing, you know, but they are so far away from it. Our country is an interesting case in Latin America because it's composed of a high percentage of people who descend from European migrations. Same scenarios in the United States. I mean, probably if you are European in the 19th century and you wanted to emigrate, your choices were New York or Buenos Aires.”
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“People Escum, people in Ethiopia you know it's a not so huge country with 90 million people it's a bit crowded and I felt that they had a history I mean Ethiopia is a very interesting case because they combine the proud of an empire I mean they are so proud the empire has never been beaten or conquest just living aside six hours of Italian presence during the Second World War But besides that they had never been conquered and they have their proudest like so much there up you know when we went to Kenya after Ethiopia and we were telling Ethiopians our next step they said oh you're going to Africa oh they're so different from us you know like we are Ethiopians and then consider themselves like a different lineage so you should be ready for that in contradiction with all the poverty they have so it's like this mix of so you know staunch proud people with a very very challenging present they're not able to to identify it”
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“Oh, get ready. Get ready for Ethiopia. It has been one of the most difficult countries for me to hitchhike, but if you're going to be there 11 days and if you will have some things already organized, I will...”
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“Which is something amazing, you should actually be there on a Sunday because then you can even, doesn't matter your religious position, you should go and witness a mass service there. Yeah, I think Lalibela, Gondar, the monasteries in Bahar. And conceptually”
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“Enough time to go around the whole country, but I think I would definitely stick to the north, which is like the place where you have like Gondar, which is what used to be the imperial seat of power of the kings, of the emperors, of the Ethiopian emperors. I would go to Gonder to see the castles and to understand all this history and lineage of the Ethiopian Empire. I would definitely put Lalibela, you know, the rock carved churches, the underground churches of Lalibela.”
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“Yeah, the fact that the hitchhik doesn't mean that I leave everything at random. So people sometimes tend to think that I will just land there and start hitchhiking randomly in any direction, which is not the case. So let's say I always travel by hitchhiking. That's like a rule. But of course I always read a lot about the country, about its history, and I try to identify regions, regions that have their own identity within that country, because that's normally the case. If you go to Ethiopia and then you have the Omobali and then you have like the highlands and everything changes between each region. So I try to read a lot of history about the country. But then I would stick to my standard approach, which is choosing small roads, minor roads, and visiting random towns along them. And that would be my average strategy of trying to get to the stories and to the people.”
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“I think the problem is that traveling and even our role as bloggers has fallen for some people only into promoting destinations and you fall into the touristic aspect of it while I try to enhance and stress the way travel can change the way you relate to the whole planet. And this has also like a responsibility because the way the more you travel and the more you get out of the abstract tags and the more you're able to relate to real people, then you start feeling empathy for real people from Colombia, Albania, Iraq, wherever, and then you are less prone to subscribe to any or to vote to the Bronx government in your home country, which is then going to declare war or sanctions on these countries. So I think traveling has this little twist that can make you a more aware person and then you have this responsibility of transmitting this.”
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“Yeah, I think that definitely makes you stronger in the sense that it helps you to be happier with less, I think. And also it helps you to not take for granted what you have at home because when we were in Africa the last year and then Norway had a tap on his house where they would just switch it and have running water. They would have to walk to the next little river. Normally it was a woman doing that and they would have to walk like one mile to get a big full load full of water to their house and we all have taps with running water. So it really helps you not to take things for granted.”
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“You mean, like, if you, okay, you have seen a lot of countries in which people are striving to make a living, and then you mean that that would cause you to accept that.”
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“Probably, yeah, that's the thing, probably, when you just go to a country and the people are just ticking off the bucket list things to sightseeing. And probably I've seen 100 Buddhist temples already and ruins and that. So yeah, I feel that that makes me focus much more in very, very specific things or on people and not on sightseeing and stuff like that. But that as a traveler, I mean, but in other areas, I couldn't recall now. Probably there are, but...”
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“It's a hard question to answer, actually. A kebabis is like something you are conditioned by your trip, you mean, and then you kind of things you take for granted, let's say.”
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“Food. I actually like a lot like in the Balkans where people, because I like the Balkans because it's Europe, but it has a lot of Ottoman influence, which means they are having fresh ingredients in their food. It's like a priority for them, you know, the way they have this breakfast with olive and this yogurt, but naturally processed yogurts. So I like that because nowadays you have genetically modified food, everything you can get in the store is like poison and stuff like that. And I like this middle point that Bulgaria.”
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“The interesting thing was like, you know, okay, it's the first time I see a guy from the Malvinas in person. We are supposed to kill each other. And then he was also like, oh, Argentina, okay, what do we do now? We're in a car. We were in Britain. And so the first thing say, hey, would you enjoy, would you have a pint? Yeah, let's go. We stopped the car, we drink, you know, we drink our problems away. It was a way of healing individually the problems of our countries and I like that.”
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“No, actually, no, at first, I love hitchhiking in Chile. It has a very low waking time as well. It never happened. People are really, really like, I remember being in a hiking, some kind of hiking refuge deep in the mountains in Chile, but there was a road and then a truck came. And Laura and I were camping inside this little hut. And the truck driver stopped and gave us, they took a cooking kitchen and started cooking food for us because we had been under the rain for like a couple of days. No, people, I really had nice experiences in Chile, but even if we are talking about supposed rivalries, I once got a ride with a guy who was from the Malvinas or Falkland Islands. The guy used to be the coach of the soccer team of the Malvinas, of the Falcons.”
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“Independence has been stressed over interdependence too much and much more than in Latin America, for example, or even in Europe. And then I feel that when you are absolutely independent and you don't need help from your neighbors, then also no one is needing your help. So then how do you feel that you are needful for your community? I think that we are losing probably something happening here that some people, just some people, don't have the chance to show, demonstrate their value to the community and this kind of leads to a social anomi anomia. Yes.”
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“Well, Pradiga be got in our evolution as territories, we have had violins as a part of it much more recently in the timeline. I mean, we were conquered by means of powder, so I think that's probably in the genetic of our culture. I guess not. I hope not. But it's interesting what you said about the shootings here in the US. It's something that, of course, as an outsider and as someone who is its first visit to the country, it would be not proper to give a very deep reflection on that. But I am going back to the hitchhiking issue. There's some sort of relation I think I can establish. And I think when you hitchhike, you are trying to establish social links with random people. But then I feel that in a very developed society like the US where people have been, how to say, the people that the value of internet...”
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“Yeah, yeah. So you have to go there if you can. That was the same case with Somaliland in the last African trip. But the special thing about Transnistria, I think it was bizarre, the place in itself. I mean, it's the only place in the world, I guess, where you can order sushi and sit down in a restaurant to eat sushi only 100 meters away from a Lenin statue, which is still standing. So I think it embodies a lot of contradictions in itself.”
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“I like Transnistria, but I wouldn't put it in a rank like one of the best countries in terms of hospitality. But as a traveler, who is obviously trying to also collect the difficult stamps in his collection, then, of course, breakaway republics, they are like a very precious prize, you know?”
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“Indeed Colombia people, I mean, they have poetry when they speak. I mean, you can speak with anyone there. It doesn't matter which walk of life does he belong to, can be a coffee collector, can be the owner of a company. They will have the same cautious way of speaking. And even though it's not actually easy to hitchhike in Colombia because of all the problems they have had with, you know, with guerrillas and kidnapping, they are a bit cautious at the time of giving you a ride. But once you are there and you're talking to people, I mean, I really wish everyone could spend a couple of days a month in Colombia to take all the stress away.”
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“Well, actually, it helped my understanding and their understanding because it was very easy. It's actually easy to travel around the world with an Argentinian passport and it's good because people feel empathy because you also come from a, let's say, developing country or we are like in the middle. We're not like a rich country. We're not a poor one. But we know what it's like to live in a place where the traffic lights don't work and people just cross with the Red Cross. So yeah, it has made easier to relate with people from Africa, for example, when I was explaining that we also had a colonial rule in our country. They were so surprised about that. And that was a good point of connection with people.”
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“I couldn't even tell you the difference between eastern Belfast and Western Belfast because that's summarized there. West Belfast is typically a stronghold of the Republican Catholic, let's say the Irish who are trapped there but would like to join the Republic of Ireland while North and East Belfast are like unionists which support being attached to Great Britain. And of course, it's an interesting because actually the family that gave them the chance to go there, they were British. They were pro-Irish. So I like that because it breaks the stereotype and it's a good starting point of the biography of this trip, of this trip, which is trying to dismantle stereotypes. So they were not on the side they were supposed to be. But then I met great people from both sides, but more.”
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“People were trying to get stability, not trying to get rid of their stability to travel. But so this finding from Northern Ireland actually offer me if you ever come over here, you have a place to stay and we can keep you going until you find a job. And that was what I did in year 2003. I moved to Belfast, actually to a small town near Belfast, found a job in another hotel as receptionist, and then slowly started to move jobs and worked there for like a year and a half before I felt I had small budget for the first year of the”
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“So that was pretty random actually. So I was a student of psychology in Argentina before I decided to take this nomadic lifestyle. At some point, I took the decision. I decided it was much more consistent even with the subject I was studying was much more consistent to go and see history unfolding in front of my nose than just staying at university. But then a family, I used to have a summer job at a hotel, just like a bellboy or receptionist. And there was a family from Northern Ireland who I had talked to them and I had explained them I wanted to travel around the world, but I wanted to save up some money to start, to get started. Because in those years, Argentina was going through its worst economic crisis. All the banks had fled the country, taking the savings of the people with them. It was like a chaos. And I was the only weird guy dreaming about unattaching things and going around the world. And it was a pretty strange thing.”
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