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November 17th 2011
Here are some fun facts I’ve learned so far about Colombia: • Your home doubles as a garage. I still can’t get over this one. I was sitting out front with the kids and all of the sudden, my neighbor across the street opened up his front wall (apparently it turns into a big swinging door, which was also surprsing), in order to take his car out of his kitchen. KIT-CHEN. You could see his kitchen, his living room, and his car basically taking up the entire kitchen while making the living room much smaller. My mouth must have hit the floor. Naturally, I had to share this spectacle, so I got Dave’s attention. But he already knew about this one and informed me that most everyone keeps their car or motorcycle in their kitchen or ... read more
November 15th 2011
There’s a beautiful giant mountain to the right of my place that I absolutely love looking at. It’s also the mountain that bears the steep 2.5 hour hike that we decided to do hungover Saturday afternoon. This is the story that we should have been killed or kidnapped, been all over the news, and no one should have felt the slightest sympathy for us because we really didn’t make wise choices. But by the grace of God, we made it and now have a ridiculous story to tell… So we went out Friday night as one of the 4 volunteer’s last night. The girls got to bed at about 5-5:30am, me about 6am, and Max about 6:30am. We spent the last few hours of our night hanging outside the volunteer house on this giant step, some ... read more
November 13th 2011
Las Despedidas I'm writing this entry smelly and filthy dirty. Water here goes and comes without warning. At first I thought no problem, I dealt with that in Istanbul (well it was very rare). But here, a bit different! If it rains, it most definitely goes and it has been raining quite a bit! Thank God you can at least dump a bucket of water in the toilet and the pressure will magically make it flush! Never thought I'd say this but give me back my cold shower! Cross your fingers for us that the water will come back on today so we can wash off the sweat and mud from yesterday's frightening hike up the mountain, (I'll skip other stories and go straight to that story for the next blog entry since that's a juicy ... read more
September 1st 2011
I am not on that phenomenon The Book of Faces. Why, well I think that name says it all. Why would I want a book of faces? I mean unless it is from Helmut Newton or Herb Ritts I would pass on a book of faces. Plus it is also known as the social network. Now if there was a antisocial network I would be sooo there. Hey what can I say, those that know me know I am an antisocial person. I had a look at some volunteers Facebook friends and they seem to average 400 friends. 400, that's a lot. I did see that the average person has about 150 friends which is still a lot for me. Reminds me of a line from Prince's song My Computer. "I can count my friends with ... read more
Armenia & Ibague - hopping to Bogota
Published: August 21st 2008South America » Colombia » Tomlina » Ibagué
August 19th 2008
We need to keep moving as we've still got some distance to cover yet and lots of things we want to see, so to get to Bogota we decided to hop there seeing as many places on the way as we could. First up was a 3 hour bus from Popayan to Cali (Colombia's third largest city). We would have liked to have had time to explore Cali but there are other places that we want to go more so we headed straight out to Armenia a further 4 hours away. Armenia's setting is its biggest attraction as it sits between a valley and some of the highest mountains of the Cordillera Central mountain range. The town itself was pretty ugly (aka it was a shit hole) but we didn't arrive until late afternoon so didn't ... read more
