Well... we have left Colombia behind. We headed to Santa Marta on the 10th, and from there to Taganga, a little fishing village about 5 minutes from Santa Marta. Not much to see in Santa Marta itself - most of the tourist infrastructure there revolves around the Lost City, which takes a week to hike in and see, so we weren?t really interested. Our first evening in Taganga was quite nice - sat at an outdoor restaurant and watched the sunset. First impression of th...

Okay, so I had this great big, long blog entry done yesterday , and as soon as I went to post it, the internet went down, and I lost the whole thing... kinda peed off. Especially now, since I?m in some super slow internet place, which I think is the only one in this town. Grr. Anyways...On Tuesday morning, we got up bright and early to catch a boat to a place called Playa Blanca. I think that Erika should tell you about the boat ride in detail, since it traumatis...

We?re finally at the beach - yay!!! Well, I don?t think we?ll actually go swimming right here in Cartagena, but we?re oh so close.Cali was alright - definitely a city that would be better to live in than to be a tourist in. There wasn?t much in the way of tourist stuff - a few small, moderately interesting museums, a few churches... not much else. It?s a pretty large city - 2.2 million people, and I can?t say it was all that pretty, either. Most of the older buil...

Hey guys. It's humid here and we are feeling lazy. Still alive and well in cali. We are flying out bright and early to the BEACH!!! Will write you from there and hopefully regain our energy and have exciting things to tell you. Funny tidbit. Hilary got stalked by a mine today and he imitated her for the longest time while she tried to ignore him so I had to give him some money. What? It was funny.

Hi all! First off, Richard - I have been going on about wanting to go to a soccer game ever since we got here - Erika was the one who didn?t care too much - needless to say, I was sooooo jealous that she got to go! Nevertheless, had a fun day exploring old town Quito - fantastic architecture there, lovely old buildings. Most of the streets were closed to vehicles and open only to bicycles, as that seems to be what they do there on Sundays. It made it quite pleasa...