Well. We are off on one HELL of an adventure next week. Not even a week away now, we leave a week from yesterday.
We are headed down to Colombia, all the way down in South America, for three and a half weeks. THREE AND A HALF WEEKS!!!!
We decided awhile back to take a good long trip between our birthdays. Matt turned 40 this past September, I turn 40 this coming May. Instead of taking two smaller trips for our individual birthdays, we decided it would be way more fun to take one big trip in the middle. Matt has wanted to go to Colombia for a long time. As it turns out, February is right smack in the middle of dry season down there. We went to Costa Rica right on the edge of wet season, and while we got lucky enough, it still rained a bunch. We really didn't want to deal with that again, as we wanted to spend most of our time on a beach somewhere.
It took awhile to figure out what to do and where to go down there. We didn't realize how BIG Colombia is. After much research, we finally came up with a game plan. It was one of those where I was driving myself nuts trying to figure out what to do and finally just said, "Fuck it, this is what we're doing..."
We're spending time in Medellin, Cartagena, and this little tiny town called Palomino. In Palomino, we're staying at a guesthouse with four rooms and a hanging bed with a mosquito net. Apparently the WiFi works fine, as long as the power hasn't gone out. I guess this is a regular occurrence.
I think we kinda have the best of both worlds going here. Small town beach time bookended by about a week in two of the major cities in Colombia. At worst, we're "roughing it" for 10 days, no more. The two cities we're going to appear as different as they can be, one up closer to the mountains in the middle of the country and the other closer to a beach on the Caribbean coast.
The planning and logistics has been entertaining, as we're going to take public transportation most places and one in-country flight. Who knew it would be a 12 hour drive between Medellin and Cartagena??? I really though places were near each other down there! Oops. Thank goodness for Google Maps and Trip Advisor...
So. We're off. If you want to follow along as we go, I'm going to try to be posting to both my Instagram and our Facebook page. Might be awhile until I post another blog post - But I'll bombard you all when we get back!
It took awhile to figure out what to do and where to go down there. We didn't realize how BIG Colombia is. After much research, we finally came up with a game plan. It was one of those where I was driving myself nuts trying to figure out what to do and finally just said, "Fuck it, this is what we're doing..."
We're spending time in Medellin, Cartagena, and this little tiny town called Palomino. In Palomino, we're staying at a guesthouse with four rooms and a hanging bed with a mosquito net. Apparently the WiFi works fine, as long as the power hasn't gone out. I guess this is a regular occurrence.
I think we kinda have the best of both worlds going here. Small town beach time bookended by about a week in two of the major cities in Colombia. At worst, we're "roughing it" for 10 days, no more. The two cities we're going to appear as different as they can be, one up closer to the mountains in the middle of the country and the other closer to a beach on the Caribbean coast.
The planning and logistics has been entertaining, as we're going to take public transportation most places and one in-country flight. Who knew it would be a 12 hour drive between Medellin and Cartagena??? I really though places were near each other down there! Oops. Thank goodness for Google Maps and Trip Advisor...
So. We're off. If you want to follow along as we go, I'm going to try to be posting to both my Instagram and our Facebook page. Might be awhile until I post another blog post - But I'll bombard you all when we get back!
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