The advice to visit Santa Marta was much appreciated! A small tourist town with nice beaches and friendly locals. We were happy to meet Jose, our waiter, our first night when we ate at Ricky´s where we got the local scoop on places to go and things to see. Our days at Santa Marta were busy exploring the beaches, restaurants and local festivies. Although we had to adjust to the sight of soldiers on every corner with machine guns day and night, we learned to appreciate the safety and serenity of a town that protected its tourists at all times. After [View Full Entry]

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We were so frustrated with Cartagena by this point that we left on a Friday night. In the mist of the festive Christmas period, when the some of the best DJ´s in the world (Roger Sanchez, Paul (or Bob) van Dyke, Tiesco (hadn´t heard of him before but now it is non stop) were in town, and 4 different dance festivals were about to start!!! We spend one night in Barranquilla to break up the trip. This is home to the gigantic Shakira, Shakira.. and was therefore worth a visit. She is absolutely huge in Latin America, I think this is [View Full Entry]

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The first script for the Karate Kid originally called for Daniel LaRusso to have spina bifida. I missed the Sports Show at Bartle Hall this weekend. What a great event that was to work, all the free concession food you could handle, almost no work, and the tips galore. The best was the time me and Bob bribed one of the guys selling conversion vans with a hot dog and sat in there watching the Arizona/Minnesota playoff game, whatever year that would have been. Jake the Snake before he was helping tank the dastardly Denver Donkeys. A few interesting anecdotes from [View Full Entry]

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“When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.”* So we’ve reached 2007 (which according to the gypsy woman will be the best year of my life, but then she said that of 2006). If you parlayed a bet on the 4 games the Chiefs needed to go their way, you would have won 700 to 1 odds. Some new lunacy from my stupid bank, if I use one of my bank’s ATMs, but in a different city, they charge me. A couple of nights before Christmas, [View Full Entry]

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Hola amigos I arrived in Puerto Jimenez looking forward to going to Parque nacional Corcovado & the abundant animals that are there. I wanted to do a two day hike with a night camping in the centre of the park to do a round trip, unfortunately the rangers told me it was full & I could only stay at the first ranger station in the Parque. I headed for La Leona ranger station on a 3km wank on the beach in 30 odd degree heat, I almost melted. The first day of walking didn't really reveal too many different types of [View Full Entry]

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Thing about windy season is, man is it windy. Like -can’t open the front door if the back door is open- windy. The pool whitecaps out of the it’s constraints, windows break all over the building, cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria. I think I’m going to change my thesis topic to how Colombian Movie theaters are a reflection of all that is wrong with Latin America. In the Spanish dubbed version of the A-Team, B.A. Baracus is named M. A. Barracus, the "M. A." for "Mala Actitud" (Bad Attitude). It’s high season officially, meaning cabbies feel more justified than [View Full Entry]

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Happy Holidays!! I wish you and yours a happy holiday season Hopefully I will get this posted before the holidays are over. I am currently in Santa Marta, Colombia. It is a town on the coast about 4 hours north east of cartagena. I am trying to go to cartagena but there is a problem since it is the height of the tourist season in Colombia and it is difficult finding a place to stay there. Santa Marta is a cheap enough place to stay, I have a small private room with cable TV for $4.25 a night. There are [View Full Entry]

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A Colombian told me that they were getting into the Christmas spirit because it was getting windy. It does mark the beginning of the holiday season, but for someone used to the cold indicating Christmas is on the way, it seemed a touch strange. I spent the weekend on the beach in the eco-park Tayrona. I’m crazy sunburned, and never feel so out of shape as when I backpack in and almost die of heat exhaustion. Similar to the weather back home right now I suppose. We listened to Roxette’s greatest hits on the way home and it was awesome. Friday [View Full Entry]

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“I now thirty-seven in perfect health begin. Hoping to cease not ‘till death.” According to Uncle Walt I have seven years before I even get started. I had a tomato basil sandwich for dinner, I need to buy a new pillow, I need to finish watching the Royal Tennenbaums and I think the Chiefs are going to win the Super Bowl. A weird candy they have here, called Bom Bom Bums, like blowpops, but coughdrop flavored. Pretty gross. The psuedo Skittles, Sparkies are good though. In the wake of a Thanksgiving where I skipped dinner had no traditional food at all, [View Full Entry]

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“Beer, of course, is actually a depressant. But poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.” ~Kurt Vonnegut. I have officially declared 11:41 the trickiest time of all time due to its visual proximity to 11:11. Making people make wishes for no good reason. It ought to be ashamed of itself. I have a crazy swollen finger from some ferocious insect attack While I Was Sleeping. Kind of like the movie except no Sandra Bullock and the bug didn’t start hooking up with my brother while I was in a coma. Oh, and I never went in a coma. You know how [View Full Entry]

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