Friday's chair, and the Panamerican Highway

On Friday I studied a bit, coughed a lot, studied a bit more, shivered (despite the fact that the house was probably more hot than it has ever been since the central heating was on full blast) , and generally felt rather ill. All the while I was sat, almost exclusively, in one seat. It was a unique sort of day.
Considering I now feel absoloutely fine, just a little sniffly, it clearly wasn't an especially dramatic ailment, but it was enough to make me lose all motivation to leave the house until yesterday afternoon, when I cautiously left the house and went for a breath of fresh air. For me, that's a big deal, since I think fresh air is brilliant.

Anyway, yesterday afternoon I made chocolate brownies again, an excercise which whilst not a complete disaster did not go rigidly to plan, but there we are. In the evening Tim and James were out at an Xpression FM birthday meal, so Lucy and LHD came round and Lucy cooked curry for us, which was very nice indeed. We then played Monopoly (which, amazingly, I won) and watched The Motorcycle Diaries which is a brilliant film.
And it fuelled my idea.

The panamerican highway largely exists only on a theoretical level. It goes from Alaska down to Chile although in fact there is no such single root. There is also a rather difficult bit near panama where there is no road and it is just jungle. But beyond that, into South America it seems to be pretty much a continous root through countries like Columbia, Peru and Ecuador. At some point in my life, I am going, with other people, to do the South Panamerican highway. We will either have an old cheap bus of some kind or go by public transport (but local buses only, no tourist buses allowed). After LHD and Lucy had left and I still had South America very much on the brain, I went to Wikipedia, where there is an entry on the route, here it is.
Ok, so its not a plan I can carry out tommorrow exactly, but the dream is there...