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Days 46-55: Si Claro, Porque No?
After we powered back from the Lost City we spent a few days in a 5 star hotel, relaxing and allowing our bodies to recover. David left for Bogotá to pick up Michael, and Henry and I spent one more night in Santa Marta before returning to Cartegena. We spent 6 hours learning salsa over…
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Days 37-45: The Road to El Dorado
We spent 2 nights in Selinas Cartegena, on walking tours and visiting torture museums by day, and blagging salsa by night. We enjoyed Cartegena so much we decided to book another week there for when the boys joined us. After 6 weeks as a trio, we had two more caballeros coming out in Jay, Henrys…
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Days 31-36: A Pirates Life For Me
Our day began with an SUV journey to the coast. The three of us emerged from our hostel on very different vibes. David, fresh from a good nights sleep, myself, still drunk and buzzed from the night before, and Henry. David and I both agreed that we’d never seen Henry so broken from a night…
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Days 27-30: City of Angels
We went out for some food, but took it easy on our last night in Bocas, all of us recovering from the chaos of the night before. The following day we were up early for our flight back to Panama City. David had a brief panic, when the safe in which he had his passport…
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Days 24-26: X Factor
We were pretty shattered from our partying the night before, and spent most of the next day and day after chilling at the hostel. We made friends with an OG, who ran one of the restaurants there. She had two sons, twins, had spent a year in prison in Panama and was on the exact…
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Day 23: Come On
We had a lot of conversation around language on this trip, its nuances and differences across cultures. In particular, how often a simple word can have so many meanings depending on the context. In Latin America, they spoke a lot about eggs. Your balls were tus huevos. In Mexico, “hell yeah” is “A huevo!”. To…
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Day 22: Deport Dem
We barely slept 3 hours and we were up and in a cab to the airport for our flight. I would like to spend more time in Guatemala in the future, but we were nearing the half way point of our trip, with the islands of Panama and Colombia awaiting us. Our airport experience was…
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Days 20&21: The Wild West
The next day was pretty much a write off as recovery was a must after the hectic night prior. A breakfast of waffles and a coffee was followed by pizzas later on in the evening. I spent most of the day relaxing by the pool and writing. We chucked Ip Man on Netflix and all…
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Day 19: Los Hombres de Hongos
We ate a lot of chocolate today. Setting off in the morning to explore around the lake, we found ourself heading via speedboat towards the hamlet of Santiago. And if we thought the town of San Pedro was chaotic, this took it to a new level. It was an assault on the senses, as we…
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Days 17&18: Lago de India
I had my first legitimate conversation in Spanish today. After a breakfast of plantain, scrambled eggs and beans at a coffee house with a colonial style courtyard, Henry and I sat outside the front of our AirBnB smoking a ciggie. An older woman walked past with her dog who we gave a stroke. She told…