Sofitel Victoria Regia Bogota

So nun habe ich die erste Woche, harte, anstrengende und nervenzehrende Arbeit hinter mir…Nein Spass, ich fühl mich super! Und die Arbeit im Projekt ist wirklich alles andere als anstrengend! =)

Ich stehe morgens immer so um 7/ halb 8 rum auf, frühstücke, dusche, hüte manchmal ne Weile Julietta (die schon richtig groß geworden ist! Unglaublich wie schnell Babys in dem alter wachsen!) oder lese…und um Viertel nach 9 lauf ich dann ...

... haben wir uns mit den anderen getroffen und sind zu der Disko gelaufen. Normalerweise soll man nachts überhaupt nicht durch Bogotá laufen, sondern immer Taxi fahren, auch wenn’s nur 100 Meter sind, aber wir waren wirklich eine große Gruppe und hatten, außer Wveimar auch noch ein paar andere Kolumbianer dabei. Die Disko war dann auch ganz cool! Die Musik eigentlich auch ziemlich Amerikanisch oder Europäisch, nur nicht ganz so aktuell und ab und zu ein paar Salsalieder usw ...

... one traveler's tale where an Australian kid had everything, passport-included, stolen as he was on his way to the airport after a year of traveling.

We began our three-country and three-airport hop by waiting in Sao Paolo's International Airport very early in the morning and blowing the rest of our BRL on McDonald's and random stuff. Mary gleefully enjoyed a 4am breakfast of an ice cream Flurry! I later found R$1.20 in my bag, which ...

... there, and taking heat from the Repubs for reaching out to the Axis of Evil and trying, in vain, to help stimulate a broken system of living... but what else? Caue is undoubtedly bigger... and all of you are now 8 months older than when i last saw you. New buildings built and roads constructed... is that damn Rail Runner working yet? I guess what i wonder is, what will shock me when i come back that you all, in NM at least, are used to? Nothing ...

... I am all for it.  The helmet thing though is still kind of up in the air but I prefer wearing a helmet.... So we had our vests made and came back to pick them up.  We also found a store that prints out stickers that you design for your bike.  We decided to come back the next day and have a new license plate made for Sylvain's bike using a reflective sticker.  We also would have small stickers made of our license plates made for our helmets.

... park in the city center. For population, San Gil is a small town of 50,000 with a small university. For price, San Gil offers inexpensive accomodations and low-priced meals and services. For adventure, San Gil offers "parapente", "torrentismo", "canotaje", "cuevas"--you can go paragliding, rappel down waterfalls, ride the rapids in kayaks (or through river rafting), go caving, etc. For people, San Gil offers a warm-and-friendly ...

... American friend Joe we took to the bungee bridge where we both perfected the art of swan dive jumping from 25 meters. We both survived and lived to tell the tale. After leaving San Gil I headed north to Bucaramanga, Laura´s university city. Here we hung out, went to the gym and lived a bit more normal. From here we left for a day trip rock climbing in the beautiful mountains 4 hours outside Bucaramanga. The day was beautiful and ...

... a lot of Xmas lights at the entrance and at the restaurant, in addition they have a large crib set up again with lots of lights. Every evening about 5 pm we get inundated with children and their parents, who come for a service at the crib, it seems that if they come for the week they get a present from the camp, talk about a bribe. The sun is extremely hot every day so at the moment we only go to the pool for about half an ...

... da ich sowieso sehr viel Zeit mit Schleiff und seinen Freunden v**brachte, wurde ich nett**weise imm** von ihnen nach Hause chauffi**t... Bogotá machte mir eigentlich wirklich nicht einen "gefaehrlichen" Eindruck. Man muss sich einfach ein bisschen daran gewoehnen, dass ueb**all bewaffnete Leute mit Hunden rumstehen, dass man imm** durchsucht wird, wenn man ein Gebaeude, ein Einkaufszentrum od** eine Disco besucht, und das sogar das Auto von einem Hund ...

Day 1: Arrival
Saturday afternoon we jumped on the plane in Bogota, and landed, an hour and a half later, in Cartagena. It was that easy- no 20-hour bus ride, no transfers. Just up in the air and then down again... it was worth every penny!

Despite the quick trip, the difference in climate from cool, rainy Bogota was readily apparent when we walked off the plane, onto the tarmac, and up an open-air walkway into the small airport. The air was balmy, and ...