Author: chrisjohnson0207
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Day 29: Quito
Sunday 3.7.2016 Traveling last summer had three distinctive parts. From Istanbul to Budapest, life is a blur. There are inhospitable moments (and certainly my least safe) but the blur is one of ecstasy and color. Imagine watching the best movie of your life and, when you’re done, attempting to describe the feeling you felt as…
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Day 28: Ipiales
Saturday 2.7.2016 No pictures today, just thoughts. We have left Cali and are on a 12 hour bus ride to the Colombian border town of Ipiales. We will spend the night in the small town and then cross the border into Ecuador tomorrow morning. Nothing has been broken, stolen, or otherwise damaged in at least…
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Day 27: Cali
Friday 1.7.2016 Cartagena has a gorgeous seaside, buttressed by a historical wall and sharing the sound of crashing waves with denizens of her cobbled streets and fast evenings. Medellin rests at the bottom of a valley, awash in silver light and low clouds while creeping up the sides of green valleys. Manizales offers an unprecedented…
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Day 26: Cali
Thursday 30.6.2016 Cali is our last stop in Colombia and the last major city in the country before reaching Ecuador. Cali, Quito, and much of Peru all the way down to southern Chile are walled off from the continent by the mighty Andes Mountains, all resting on humid plains and experiencing a tropical heat unlike…
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Days 18-25: Manizales
Wednesday 22.6.2016 – Wednesday 29.6.2016 Writing about Manizales is going to be hard. Guerillmo, our host, challenged us to embrace the environment of remote Colombia fully and using an iPad to publish my thoughts seems sacrilegious after meeting people who don’t know how to read. So I apologize in advance for the difficulty that I…
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