Geetings from the mad country. Sorry all, I know I was off the grid for a while like the Chinese guy in the Matrix. I took a pretty madcap trip over Semana Santa/Holy Week. I have determined that you very much miss the best parts of the country by flying over it rather than driving Colombia’s wild roadways. The car treated us well, despite two flat tires, the two tows and several hours in a mechanic place. It finally rained, and man did it. In my little hamlet alone, there were a number of sweeping out to sea drownings. You [View Full Entry]

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A freaking jellyfish stung me on Sunday. It’s feels kind of like getting stung by a bee. Except underwater, and you don’t have that satisfying knowledge that it cost the bee his life to sting you. You know what Latin America has a lot of? No, not low wage laborers. Okay, some of those too. Trash. It really shocked me how much trash is everywhere when I first arrived. I try not to litter but I’ve gotten to know some trash pretty well in marathon searches for a trashcan. It still hasn’t rained. The last time I remember it raining [View Full Entry]

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Close to Tatanga is Tayrona National Park, which has some beautiful beaches on a jungle covered coast. It was hassle to get their as we had to get a local bus to the park and then walk for a further 2 hours to Cabo a place on the beach we wanted to stay, which is most popular with travelers and we could see why. looking back it might of been easier to get a boat direct to the beach as there must be someone willing to take you. The main attraction is a Cabaña with hammocks sat on a hill over [View Full Entry]

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I just spent a few days on the caribe of columbia. That does good things for a body. Found some really sick body surfing, some of the best of my trip, maybe the best! The beaches were amazing. You had to hike in a few miles in to Park Tayrona. Oh man...then you just relax, and sleep in hammocks. Anyone who misses columbia is sure missing a lot. I know that it could be dangerous, but it doesn´t feel like that at all, and the people are amazingly friendly. Columbia is a dream where all you wishes come true a [View Full Entry]

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Now that I have your attention! So, I hiked up to the ciudad perdida, and it was just wild. I will let my pictures tell most of the stories, and try to do captions. What a hike! It was five nights, and we hiked 6 days. It was a special time with real cool people. Now i have a rendezvous with my parents to hike the inca trail! April 27 I have to be in Lima. Well, that gives me a reason not to drag so much ass at least. I figure from there I can make it to Rio, record [View Full Entry]

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More pics from journey...they are continued... [View Full Entry]

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After our stay in Cartagena next up was Santa Marta in on the Caribbean coast. There were a few reasons for us to decide to come here. First was the tour to Ciudad Perdida (the lost city) which is in the middle of nowhere in deep jungle, like the name suggests. Built between the 11th and 14th century and then the people wiped out in the 16th century when the Spanish arrived. The trip takes a total of 7 days to hike there and back. After looking into it we decided to leave it as the pictures we looked at didn’t [View Full Entry]

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I knew from way back that I had a rendezvous with columbia. How right I was. It is amazing here. I liked venezuela, but I like columbia more...it´s crazier yet more fun...well the main thing is the women are amazingly beautiful, it´s all true what they told me. I was not at all disappointed, but quite gratified. And it´s true what the columbian girls told me in panama city, they like americans, and americans like them! So, I met up with a few british guys and we decided to travel together. It´s great travelling with them, takes some of the stress [View Full Entry]

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Bussimatkan Santa Martaan piti kestää kolme ja puoli tuntia, mutta jotenkin se venyi taas melkein viiteen tuntiin. Tuttu juttu, ei haittaa menoa. Perille päästyämme tarkoitus oli suunnata suoraan läheiseen kalastajakylään Tagangaan. Taksikuski yritti tiukasti saada meitä kyytiinsä, mutta ei suostuttu, vaan kyseltiin mistä lähtisivät kollektiivibussit. Ne lähti ihan vierestä, joten jäätiin venailemaan. Taksikuski tuli kohta sanomaan, että meitä ei otettaisi kyytiin, koska meillä oli liian isot reput. Ollaan aikaisemminkin samoilla hiaceilla menty, eikä silloinkaan ole ollut ongelmia, joten annettiin ahneen taksikuskin sanomisten olla. Parin ohi ajaneiden hiaceiden jälkeen alettiin kuitenkin jo miettiä, oltiinko me ei-toivottuja asiakkaita, mutta seuraava sitten jo ottikin [View Full Entry]

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Have you ever had smoked stingray from a street vendor? Or diarrhea for 8 days? The two questions are unrelated. So I made it on tv in South America again.* Turns out some camara man was watching me dance retardedly by myself, thought it made good tv and put it on every evening newscast as an example of gringos at Carnaval. At least half of my students and both of my bosses didn’t see it. Lucky for me dancing provocatively on tv gets you a promotion in Colombia. I went to an all day outdoor concert one day, the Festival de [View Full Entry]

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