Soph Hey Rich - hope you have a safe journey home! I'm going to miss reading all about your travels! I arrived back in the UK early yesterday from my flying tour of NY! I'm now thoroughly exhausted, but enjoyed every second! :o) Hope to catch up with you on your return! Soph (",)

Richard Hello everyone, Thank you for the birthday greetings. A special thanks goes out to Mr Adebayor of Togo who gave me the best (late) birthday present of them all! I love it when we beat United at the theatre! Faltan siete dias hasta europa! See you soon, Rich

Soph A RATHER BELATED HAPPY BIRTHDAY! ... But a A Very Happy Birthday Nonetheless! :o) Soph (",) PS Enjoying all your travel updates! Keep 'em coming!

auntie kay HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!! from us all,enjoy your special day, thinking of you more than ever today. Loads and loads of love and best wishes auntie Kay uncle Bob Michael and Hannah xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Dad Rich, Happy Birthday (just in case you did not get my e-card) Dad

The Hofmeister Happy Birthday Rich!!! We from germany would like to wish u a very happy birthday god´s blessings and a nice time remaining in south america (regardles where u´ll be). Hope u can enjoy your day and celebrate!!!!! Looking forward to hearing from u again soon Woodleys & Hofmeister Woodley

Didi Hola Rich..! Since I knew you where looking for some info about bolivian footballers and I´m also a football yunquie maybe I can help you with that.. For everybody who are about to read this message and knows about football, please take a notice that if you consider this bolivian´s players you might say they were good so probably this names wouldn´t sound familiar to you.. José Milton Melgar was a volante( I don´t know how to say it in English but is the same position that Gilberto Silva..) from the 80's and 90's. He is the only bolivian who played for both BOCA(85-88) and gallinas´team (or River Plate,88-89) so bolivians are really proud of him becouse of that. -For the record BOCA didn´t won a single thing during those years so Milton I´m sorry we coulnd´t wait for you to come back home...- Melgar was also part of the team who made it to the Worl Cup for the first time on 1994, during the classification round the bolivians beat Uruguay, Ecuador, Venezuela and... Brazil..!!! Another player is Juan Manuel Peña, he was booked by Real Valladolid for the season 95/96 before he was transfer to Villareal where he scored his first goal in 10 years against Malaga by the end of 1994.. During his time playing in Spain he was always considered a B kind of player but at least he can say he played with Riquelme in Villareal for a couple of minutes... Hope you will find this info useful, tomorrow BOCA is playing with San Lorenzo, which is always a hard game so keep your fingers crossed... Anyways take care.. Cheers from Argentina..! Didi

Sparky Alright GLYN, thought you would be back home by now, big brother finished last friday?! huhuh

Dad Rich, Nice write up on your ValleGrande visit. I expect that it was an emotional experience for you? Well done on completing your mission. Take care. Dad.

Richard In answer to recent questions... 1. I have only had my hair cut once since leaving home. I had it chopped back in Buenos Aires in June. Apart from that I have just trimmed the fringe on a couple of occasions. I think the camera is deceiving well! 2. I will be back in Europe on 27th September but not home to England until 2nd October. I am stopping in Madrid to check out the city and watch Real Madrid vs Atletico Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu. Keep the questions coming...!!!

neil woodley hi cousin! Glad to hear you are still alive and having fun! Any chance you might ever be comming back home to europe? Whenever i tell my friends about your progress they seem to think you are going to stay in south america forever. Well, I hope to see you soon! Germany says hallo and wishes you all teh best. Bye, Neil

Dad Hi again Rich, So you enjoyed the safari by the sounds of it and having viewed your latest pics the mining trip looked a blast!!!! (pardon the pun). What we really want to know is who is cutting your hair, since it seems to remain at a constant length throughout your travels??? Have a nice w/e. Bye for now. Pauly G.

Dad Hi Rich, Looks very remote in the Atacama Desert. Nice Sunset though! Let us know how your 4x4 Safari went. Ciao, Dad.

Didi Ricardito.. I just finish to check on your website and right now I am in shock... I just I can not believe what I am seeing and I reading I CAN NOT BELIEVE YOU TOOK THOSE PICTURES ON RIVER STADIUM..!! I thought you said you were a BOCA man.. As the BOCA fan that I am, this is by far one of the worst things you could do..! I can´t believe I wasted so many hours teaching you the BOCA songs..!! Not to mention the hours we spend talking about football and what BOCA means to people like me(cause you´re not included on this list anymore)who really understands what passion about football is all about, and now I find out about this...! As the football fan that you said you were(cause now I don´t know what to believe and what not..)you should understand how serious this is..this is a major violation to football fan codes..!! If I were you I would start to pray to GOD(Maradona) and ask for mercy... You know how I feel about people related to River...so I guess you will imagine that, if I was aware of this by the time you were here, things will be quite different( which means " no Cordoba tour with the best guide ever" for you, Mr "I do not have any word").. I can´t find enough words to explain you how betrayed I feel.. I hope you have an explanation for this behavior (temporary insanity is a good option..) Besos Didi

leslita Nunca olvidaria a Richard Jamesss!!! pero dime... de verdad no eres argentino?? =) Nos volveremos a ver Ricardito!!! no me olvido de lo que te debo!! you know... los argentinos y el tiempo no hacemos una excelente combinacion. Estoy atenta a tus viajes por el mundo, mis deseos estan contigo asi que escribime en ingles o en español, pero escribime, y contame como ves el mundo desde esos especiales ojitos ingleses!!! Muchos besos y abrazos de Janis y Leslita para Ricardito y sus aventuras!!! (dificil mi español??) Chuik chuik!