Author: chrisjohnson0207
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Day 17: Manizales
Tuesday 21.6.2016 After pushing our time in Medellin back a day already, Molly and I decided to leave for Manizales to meet up with Guerillmo, an Internet pen pal for the past three months and the Don of a small cattle ranch in rural Colombia. We had no idea what to expect and the shock…
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Day 16: Medellin
Monday 20.6.2016 Molly and I decided that today would be spent learning about the history of Medellin. We managed to get up reasonably early, with the goal of making it to the prestigeous Modern Art Museum and taking a walking tour around the historic downtown afterwards. Of course, today is Monday, so the museum…
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Day 15: Medellin
Sunday 19.6.2016 As with many days, we started our morning with a conversation about politics. Jorge took Molly and I to Exito to talk about the coming day and discuss the intracacies of a favorite topic for non-Americans: how the hell did Donald Trump happen. Jorge is a personal fan of Dr. Ben Carson and…
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Day 14: Medellin
Cartagena has given us many good memories and several late nights. We boarded a flight from Cartagena’s international airport (situated in a poor suburb outside the city, and characteristically surrounded by graffiti lamenting the destruction of local life due to the crushed property values in the neighborhood) around 3 in the afternoon and flew in…
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Day 13: Cartagena
Lost another draft. Struggling in paradise, as they say. Today is Molly’s birthday. It’s the first birthday of hers that we’ve had the opportunity to celebrate together and the first one that we’ve spent in, well, another country, so we started the festivities last night and ended sometime around 4 in the morning. This was…
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