Well, Erika was right - the place we were staying in Tucacas was indeed a hole - even without the bedbugs, it was pretty filthy. And Tucacas in general was nothing to get excited about. The guidebook said that Tucacas and Chichiriviche were about the same, but it's far more pleasant here - quieter, smaller streets, helpful people (our taxi driver drove us around and knocked on posada doors to help us find a nice place to stay, and the woman who runs our posada ...

Hey everyone! We are alive and well in Venezuala but of course it was a bit of a scene getting here. Read on.So after the crazy rain storm we decided to run away from Colombia. There was still no power and people to call, banking stuff to deal with, emails to write. The bus ride to the boarder town was fairly uneventful. They screened El Caliente IN ENGLISH WHOOOHOOO!! And it was actually pretty good. Got deposited in a sorta sketch bus terminal and were instantl...

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...