23 Feb 2018 (Medellin, Colombia): We went to the fancy neighborhood, El Poblado, today. Sitting in a coffee shop, I met a Venezuelan girl who had just taken the bus in from Caracas. She was trying to get restaurants to let her sing so she could send money to her family and move to New […]
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Day 48
22 Feb 2018 (Medellin, Colombia): We are buying some sweet fútbol gear for a game we’re going to tonight. Just to jump ahead a little, the game was really fun, and I wanna go to another. Here are some of the things that happened: (1) at no time were we more than 20 seconds wait […]
Day 47
21 Feb 2018 (Medellin, Colombia): We are loving the daily lunch specials that many restaurants seem to have. This one is traditional Venezualan. The soup and dessert are not pictured (though modest), the mango juice was pulpy and fresh, and the whole shebang cost $3.50 per person. The food here has been really really great. […]
Day 46
20 Feb 2018 (Medellin, Colombia): Leah and I go on a walking tour of the city. The tour guide, Juliana, is great. I was especially interested to learn that many of the original settlers were Marranos with ongoing traditions like symbolically scoring pork before eating it. Also, schools here apparently don’t teach their own country’s […]
Day 45
19 Feb 2018 (Medellin, Colombia): Leah and I go for pizza tonight to a place highly recommended by a blogger named desktodirtbag. He sounds trustworthy, right? It was the best pizza I’ve had in months. hah hah hah — oh wait, except for a pie we had in Buenos Aires that was quite legit. It […]
Day 44
18 Feb 2018 (Medellin, Colombia): Since we’re pretending to be “real” people in Medellin for the next few weeks, we go grocery shopping. And this store has surprisingly comfortable chairs (and a coffee station blocked by Blue Shirt and Sorta Impatient) from which you may casually watch the butcher prepare your meat. Groceries and a […]