First One Off

Bombs Over Bogota

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December 31st 2008
For those of you who didn't catch that, the title is a reference to an Outkast song, B.O.B (Bombs Over Baghdad). Outkast is amazing go listen to them. I swear they must have an Enrique Inglesias radio station. I must have heard him 10 times in a row on the bus. That or they just worship him here so his songs come up all the time. So today I was going to sleep in until about 11, but I ended up w ... read more

South America » Colombia » Bogota

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Colombia was one of the three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others are Ecuador and Venezuela). A 40-year insurgent campaign to overthrow the Colombian Government escalated during the 1990s, undergirded in part... ... read more