Locolombia

I am now sitting at an internet place in Cartgegna Colombia, and I am grateful for the air-conditioning however weak it might be. Outside it must be 90+ degrees and I am sweating and have been sweating all day and all night. I leave from here soon, off to Medellin and away from the Carribean sea. I am not sad to go and in fact I could not wait to leave here. Do not get me wrong, I am by no means ungrateful to be somewhere hot and on the Carribean but, I find this town to be boring and a let down to my initial expectations. I have been here nine days so far. I arrived on the eigth of January in Bogota and from bogota flew to Cartagegna. I spent the first night here a couple blocks from where I write this at a very shady (as in dodgey), run down, poor looking, hole in the wall of a hotel and it was not even cheap for South America.

Let me recap, I arrived last week at the airport in Cartagena and I met on the plane a friendly Colombian women who was travelling with her young son. She introduced me to her friend who lived 2 blocks from airport. They helped me find a cambio to change my money and for the first time I held Colombian pesos in my hand. We walked over to the house that was in view of the airport. The Cartagegna airport unlike the bus station is in the center of town and in the middle of a residential neighborhood.