Dear all, I wish I had something fascinating to report about my latest travel. I will say this, Bogota is far different than the last few places I've been, namely Maputo, Lilongwe, and Dar es Salam. For example, Bogota has electricity and water 24 hours a day, every day. And while there were a few similarities, such as men with guns, the difference in Bogota was this - I actually believe that these were loaded AKs and not left over from the Soviet Union. Let me back up first. After a terrible flight - spending the night in Atlanta (oh wait, that wasn't terrible, I had banana pudding with Nila wafers, sweet tea, collard greens, cabbage, heaven, sheer heaven), but the trouble came from Delta refusing to claim responsibility, as my ticket was through Continental, and
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