Bogota, Colombia, South America I have to say, I was very impressed this morning that Melissa and I woke up and had plenty of time to get ready to go play tennis at 11am. After going to bed at 5am, I didn’t think we were going to make it. We got a taxi back to her house, grabbed the tennis gear, and took the car over to the courts. Surprisingly, Luz Mery and Vanessa showed up about ten minutes after…
Bogota, Colombia, South America I got up this morning after a great night’s sleep, and was impressed to hear that Melissa was still coming to pick me up to go play tennis. I had thought that she would be too hungover, or at least too tired to play, so that was a nice surprise. It ended up being just Melissa and I playing as the other ladies were too tired. It was really good to get back out on the…
Bogota, Colombia, South America Today was fairly quiet, but was still really nice. I hung out at the hostel this morning, and then walked over to Melissa’s office to meet her for lunch. On Friday Melissa normally goes out to lunch with some workmates, so we went out to El Corral with everyone. I’m still impressed at how good the burgers are there, considering they’re just a Colombian version of Burger King, but way better. On my way back after…
Bogota, Colombia, South America I got up this morning and felt much better than I had yesterday. Must have just been a 24 hour bug or something. They brought us another awesome breakfast, and Melissa went off to work. I chilled at the hotel this morning to enjoy the last morning at this beautiful place. Since I’ve decided to stay in Colombia for almost another week, I had to find a cheaper place to stay, so I found a hostel…
Bogota, Colombia, South America I woke up this morning and didn’t feel well at all. My stomach was in knots and I was feeling really tired. We had an amazing breakfast brought to us at 7am, and it included fresh fruit, pancakes, an omelette, fresh juice, hot chocolate, and granola with yogurt. It was amazing! Another amazing thing that happened is I called Copa Airlines this morning to see how much it would cost to change my flight, and I…
Bogota, Colombia, South America Melissa and I got up really early this morning, to make sure we could enjoy as much time as possible in San Gil. We got all of our stuff together and left it in the hostel at about 7:15am. We went around the corner to the central market and found a little place to have breakfast. I had scrambled eggs and a fresh strawberry juice, and Melissa had an arepa with orange juice. Both meals were…
San Gil, Colombia, South America Melissa and I had a great day in Barichara today! It started out with a nice long lie, and we got up around 9:30am to have breakfast at the hotel. Technically it is called a hostel, but this is much more of a hotel than a hostel. We have a nice room with a private bathroom, there is a swimming pool, gardens all over the place, and a great breakfast that I haven’t encountered in…
Barichara, Colombia, South America I had a great night’s sleep, and this was the first morning we didn’t have to get out of bed to go to breakfast or anything. Melissa and I could just chill in the room and we met up in Luz Mery’s room around 11am to have some fruit and yogurt for breakfast. We left the aparthotel at midday and started heading to Barichara. This was just a few hours drive, and it was a beautiful…
Bucaramanga, Colombia, South America We got up this morning, had our last breakfast at the resort, and then went down to the beach for about an hour to enjoy it just one last time. At 11:30am we had to come back up to the rooms to get our stuff packed up and get ready to leave. We had lunch at the resort and then hit the road by about 1:30pm. It was supposed to be an eight hour drive to…
Santa Marta, Colombia, South America I had a great night’s sleep last night, and woke up at 6:24am feeling excellent. I knew that if we wanted to go to one of the nicer restaurants tonight for dinner we had to book it and the reservation desk opens at 6:30am. For some reason, they don’t let you book a table for dinner the day before, you have to go on that morning, which is just so annoying. I figured that since…