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Riohacha to Cabo de la Vela: Northernmost South America, Almost. August 8. The postal service in Colombia has been a pain in my ass. I have had postcards I wanted to send out since I was in Bogota about three weeks ago. A girl who worked in a hostel there told me where the post office was and drew it on a map for me. I walked across town. It was not there. I asked someone else. They send me...
July 21. Bogota to Medellin. Beer is the same price as water in Colombia. Surely that and the hot weather is one contributing factor to why it is a third world country. It is always warm enough so that if you do not work to make enough money to cover your rent, you will not freeze to death. With no pressing need to make sure you survive the winter, you might as well drink beer instead. I decided to pull...
Learning Tejo. July 20 I found some really awesome traditional Colombian-ism today. It is a game called Tejo. It was perfect. It was throwing peices of metal, gunpowder, and beer. Perfect. I woke up in Nathali’s bed. I was still alone so I can only presume she did not get cold in the night. Smart woman. She must have had more blankets than I wished she had! Nathali cooked me breakfast. Duck eggs taste like chicken eggs. Nathali, her brother...
July 19 How to Get Your Phone Stolen in Bogota. In nine years and 62 countries of travel, I have never had anything stolen. That changed today. Bogota is not being very nice… Today was a terrible hang over day. I will not drink aguardiente again. We are through. It makes me grumpy and irrational. Then I was sick the entire day. A German girl in my dorm and I went to Museo del Oro, the Gold Museum in Bogota....
Bogota Whores and More July 18 I asked him, “Where are we going? To a bar?” He replied, “With whores. A whores bar!” It would be an adventure in Bogota… I climbed Cerro de Monserrate in the afternoon to have a cool overview of the city. Well now that is a lie. I took the cable car up, which did the climbing. That was kind of a misleading sentence. I had to autograph a mob of kid’s arms with a...
Cold Bogota – The Coldest Place in Colombia, the Capital. July 17. The shelf life of Colombian women does not seem to be very good. It seems like a difficult task to find a woman under 25 in this country is not attractive. It seems to be as equally difficult to find a woman over 35 who is. It takes the edge off their knife of the future. I am also concerned about how far I am away from women...
San Cipraino to Bogota: Jungle Waterfalls and the Appalling French. July 16. I made friends with an American named Eric who was raised in Switzerland from the time he was 4 until he was 12. Swiss-German was his first language that he was fluent in and he attended a Swiss-German school during that time. His family went back to the U.S. when he was 12 where he enrolled in an English speaking school. Three years later when he was 15...
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May 1, 2012 I was up at 7:00am, showered, packed and caught a bus from my hotel to Hyun Jin’s place where she fed me breakfast. She…