San Gil turned out to be like the Queenstown of Colombia, a real adventure sports town. Unfortunately during our night bus to San Gil, Kim developed a bout of food poisoning and had a nightmare of a trip, a plastic bag became her best friend. So when we got to San Gil we booked into a nice hostel and she spent a couple of days recovering.

When Kim gave me the thumbs up, we had an adrenaline packed day. In the morning we went white water rafting. We were signed up for the extreme one, grade 4- 5, but the river was too high. I was disappointed but we settled for grade 1-3. I thought it would be a pretty calm cruise down the river, but within 5 minutes I was thrown out of the raft, only to be rescued by our guide. I loved it. Kim manged to stay in the raft, until we hit a freakish wave and the whole boat flipped! Awesome. Fortunately Kim was loving it too and we had had a practice before we hit the rapids, and we were back in the raft pronto.

In the afternoon we went paragliding. When we arrived a couple of people were landing and it looked pretty rough, one guy actually bounced about 10m before stopping. Thankfully he wasn't our guide. We waited for about an hour for the wind sock to look less erect and eventually it drooped a little and we got the nod. I went first and it was pretty crazy, some tight turns and at one stage our chute was touching another paragliders. When Kim went up, she asked for "tranquillo", but after she was airborne and the guy asked what she did for a living, he cranked up the pace. Very funny, the screams from the sky were hilarious.

The next leg of our journey was to get to the border town of Colombia and Venezuela. We spent a night in Bucamaranga and then a 5hr bus to Cucuta. I'd done a lot of reading about this crossing as very few travelers are going to Venezuela due to political unrest. Some of the stories involed guns and dodgy areas and dodgy people. So we did our upmost to keep safe. We stayed in a great hotel in Cucuta and the next morning gor a taxi to the border. We got our stamps and immigration officer sent us in the direction to another taxi to take us to Santo Domingo airport. We arrived 3 hrs before our flight and the airline but us on an earlier flight which was great.

Caracas, capital of Venezuela is the 6th most dangerous city in the world, so we didn't have any good reviews about here either. We found a hotel close to the airport, Hotel Catimar that does a pick up and a drop off for free which meant we simply flew in and out.

We've spent the last day and a half in Trinidad. Having hired a car we've driven around a bit of the island and tried some "bake and shark", local shark sandwhich. The weather has been really overcast and humid with some downpours.

Tomorrow, well it's our final destination. After 20 months traveling to new places we're going back to Grenada to see Dean and Kathy of our last 2 weeks. We've chartered a luxury yacht for 4 days sailing around the Grenadines and are gonna soak up our last 2 weeks of this epic adventure, before we come out of early retirement!!