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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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Day 12: Cartagena
Wednesday The struggle for a decent internet connection continues. Drafts get lost and formatting is difficult, so I apologize for the tardiness of my posting. Colombia is one of eight or nine “mega diverse” countries in the world, meaning that the state contains severally vastly different ecosystems. Cartagena is the largest city along the Carribean…
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Day 11: Cartagena
I can not think of a better introduction to Colombia than the city of Cartagena. Brightly colored tight streets weave through diverse and growing communities, sweltering with the Carribean heat during the day and igniting with a goldenrod sunlight in the evening. Avenues are full of tourists buying delicious empanadas and ignoring (or not) the…
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