Monthly Archives: May 2011

I was allo­cated the front seat for the 9am non-stop depar­ture to Colombia’s cap­i­tal, Bogota. Just as we were about to leave, an employee of the com­pany got on to the bus & took a video of each of us. For our & the company’s safety, appar­ently. I smiled at the cam­era & off we […]

Cof­fee regions receive a lot of rain. Man­iza­les received the most rain I’d seen since the 3 con­sec­u­tive days of the ‘wet stuff’ I cycled through in the Red­wood forests of North­ern Cal­i­for­nia. In fact, it rained so much & so hard for 2 days that I didn’t get much fur­ther than the sofa in […]

Twelve hours was the time every­one told me the bus ride would take from Carta­gena to Medellin. I wasn’t sur­prised, how­ever, when we rolled into Medellin’s North Ter­mi­nal 16 hours after set­ting off. I have learned over the years to add on an hour for every 4 trav­elled. so a s not to get my […]

Three hours after leav­ing Por­to­belo, with my stom­ach just about in tact, I paid $323 for the 1-hour flight from Panama City to Carta­gena, checked in my bag at the same time & went to expe­ri­ence the stale atmos­phere of Toc­u­men Inter­na­tional Air­port. The only pos­i­tive thing I can say about air­ports is that if […]