we are in Caracas... Crack-az....

well as the title says we are in Caracas.... but an interesting last few days.... here it goes...
well tayrona in colOmbia was awesome the best beach i have seen in my life... so far... there was crashing surf sandy beaches adn giant boulders placed in picture perfect places... a great day and wished we could have spent more time but we couldn't as we were off to venezuela...
so after spending an great... though short... time in colombia we made our way ovewr to venezuela... getting into the country was easy until we got to customs... our bags were ripped apart and everything search which wasn;t bad as we full expected that at evry boarder down here but then after we returned our bags to the car we had to return for more searching... where were they to search you ask as we had no bags... well as first i was led into a small room which was full of me, a boarader guard and his M-16... at first he frisked me and told me to empty my pockets... so i complied... next i had to raise my shirt to show my abs... um i mean that i had no drugs taped to me... next he pointed at my pants and the motioned down.. so as a friendly canadian i dropped away... but pants weren't enough... so there i stood... will only my dignity covering me until he motioned for me to do squats... dignity was no longer there... at this point in the whole fiasco it started getting really funny so i had to bite my cheek as i did my naked squats to stop from laughing... after the guard was satisfied that i had had enough exercise i was allowed to redress and get on my way... quickly explaining to stu and kyle on my way out that they should be glad they got that bikini wax in santa marta...
so after our brazen start to this country it has settled doan a bit... we raced across the western part of the country making brief stops in maracaibo and maracay we eventually stoped in colonial tovar...
Tovar is a really strange place... it was setteled by gremans in the 17 (or 18) hundreds and through a law which prevented outside marrige until reciently has remained very german in house style and culture... very strange... but we got our sausage and stayed in an awesome cabin which was a bit of a splurge but still reasonable... so after a day iun the black forest we are in the metropolis of caracas which has been a bit rainy so far but still more then i was expecting
rachel come in tomorrow and we are in caracas for one more day then it is off to puerto cruz (maybe)... and then isla de margarita... where we are currently searching into all inclusives starting at 36 bucks... oh the humanity...

well keep on rocking in the free world and do-do-dodo-do.....

do do

Lyle

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