26 Feb 2018 (Medellin, Colombia): We start our day at a nice breakfast place to do some research and planning for Ecuador. I get up to use the bathroom and see this glorious sight: four gringas intently focused on their Apple laptops. Sometimes you gotta just embrace what you are, right babe?
Day 52
Day 51
25 Feb 2018 (Medellin, Colombia): Leah went grocery shopping and came back with a fruit bounty. I’m especially excited for the guavasteens (the green ones in the middle next to the lime).
Day 50
24 Feb 2018 (Medellin, Colombia): We take an exotic fruits tour at Minorista market. We try maybe 15ish fruits (~10 of which I’d never had before), and my new fave is guavasteen (feijoa en espanol). I think Leah is still partial to the granadilla. Ooo and the dragon fruit! I’ve seen these in other places […]
Day 49
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 […]
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. […]