Thursday, January 15 We awoke feeling damp, as our hotel air conditioner wouldn’t even have qualified as a swamp cooler. It was cooler and less humid in the open air hallway. We sampled the breakfast buffet, packed our things and headed to the airport in a state of anticipation. We were finally clearing North & […]

Friday, January 16 We slept in until 9, enjoying the plush bed. Our first order of business for the day was finding some maps of Colombia and possibly a guide book. Lew had drawn us a map showing how to get to two book stores, which would likely have maps. By the time we had […]

Saturday, January 17 We woke up around 10 am, feeling a bit beat up from last night’s fun at Andre’s. After breakfast we decided to visit the Salt Cathedral, a tourist destination that Lew recommended, about 30 km outside of Bogota. Jeffrey had a day off from school and was hanging around out at home […]

Sunday, January 18 Despite the party the night before, we managed to get up early and be ready to head out by 8:30. We felt bad about waking up Lew and Jennifer to say goodbye, as they’d been up quite late, but it would have been rude to miss a proper farewell. We thanked them […]

Monday, January 19 We slept well and woke up early. We ate a Mexico style convenient store breakfast of coffee, some yogurt, and a granola bar. Since it was still raining, we weren’t very enthusiastic about touring the Cafe Zone, as beautiful as it was. We were aiming for a long day of riding with […]