Another 10 hour overnight bus ride brings me to Cali, Colombia's third largest city. The weather here is hot thanks to the lower elevation and the people here are famous for their outgoing and friendly manner. My friends from Bogota gave me the phone number for their friend Eliana so I could have yet another tour guide. I just keep getting passed along to friends of friends and it's just more proof that Colombians are by far the friendliest I've met while traveli...

Bogota is HUGE! With 10 million people, modern highways, buildings, and public transportation, I almost feel like I am in New York except horse drawn wagons still compete with BMWs, Mercedes Benz´, and thousands of pollution belching buses. The sprawl of the city spreads far and wide over a giant, flat savanna between mountain ranges at an elevation of 8000 feet. To take a bus from one side of the city to the other would be at least a 3 hour journey. It is c...

I spent all day Sunday with Pablo, his girlfriend Carolina, and her little brother and sister. I met Pablo at 8am this morning and we made the scenic 2 1/2 hour drive to Santa Fe de Antioquia, an old colonial town that is famous for it's historic beauty and mountain scenery. The crazy drive through the mountains was just that ... crazy. Traffic rules, the ones that actually exist, are rarely enforced. I asked Pablo if the police might pull us over for speeding, w...

On the road again.... Willie nelson couldn't have said it any better! After 5 months on Colombia's caribbean coast, I finally said goodbye to all my friends in Santa Marta and caught the overnight bus to Medellin. The 16 hour journey was long and boring but I need to get used to these long distances. South American countries are huge in comparison to Central Americas' and this will be the norm from now on. When I arrived in Medellin, I called my friend Leydi, who...

I haven't provided an update for so long that even I'm bored with my website.... so finally, a long overdue update; although things aren't as interesting at the moment as they will be next week. In a few days, I will be on a bus bound for Medellin, home of Pablo Escobar's former drug cartel and Colombia's ex-cocaine capital. It is Colombia's 2nd largest city, very wealthy, and full of activity and things to see and do. I am expecting to meet some tour guides ther...