After spending our first few weeks on the coast, and my Michigan blood boiling from all the hot days and air conditon-less nights (well, some of them), we headed south to the mountains. After a couple memorable days learning about the country’s history and transformation in Medellín, we continued south to Salento. One of […]
Caribbean Colombia is hot. Really, really hot. It took us all of 2 nights to decide we were going to pay up the extra few bucks a night for air conditioning in our room. We wanted to ease into our trip, so the Caribbean seemed like the perfect place to start. We flew into […]
This was not exactly how we expected to start our trip. Sweating like a pig, stomping up and down 65⁰ muddy mountain inclines, stomachs twisting in cramps, and with 3 more days of this laying ahead. When we first decided to start our adventure in Colombia we wanted to begin with a trek to […]
Getting ready to leave for a trip is always more fun than coming back from one – mostly because packing is roughly 1,000x more fun than unpacking. There is the fun of imagining what your next week, month, or year will look like – Will it rain? Will I need something formal? Will I […]
We did it. We worked our asses off and saved a lot. After years of longing to travel South America, we finally begin our journey December 10th with a direct flight to Cartegena, Colombia. We cut out concerts, fancy restaurants, and vacations. We went into our boss’s offices and said thanks but no thanks. […]