colombia
We’ve had the amazing chance to cross a large number of sights and destinations off our travel bucket list over the last four months. Rather than shrinking, however, that bucket list has only grown. For every place you visit while traveling, you’ll hear of three more that you just have to see. Plans have a tendency […]
Since the beginning of the trip, we’ve been attempting to track every expense to get a better picture of where our money is going and if we’re on track to make it last. After each country, we’re planning on posting our resulting budget to give a better idea of how much it actually costs to […]
When visiting a new country, you will of course notice many differences. Some of these differences are large and expected, such as the fact that everyone speaks a different language or that the typical cuisine isn’t quite what you’re used to. Other differences, however, aren’t so striking and sometimes even take a while to recognize. […]
Colombia, unfortunately, has long been a country beset by violence. The most notorious era of Colombia’s past, most recently brought into the spotlight by Netflix’s Narcos, was Pablo Escobar’s reign of drug trafficking, kidnapping, ransom, and murder. Rising to power in the 1970’s, Escobar built a network that eventually provided over 80% of the United States’ cocaine […]
With Bridgette laid up with an unfortunate pool-related foot injury in Santa Marta, I was flying solo on our planned trip to Tayrona National Park, located 45 minutes or so outside of the city. Still a bit leery of the public transportation options, I took the direct shuttle from our hostel for 12,000 pesos, which […]
Envision paradise. White sand, palm trees, thatched roof huts, and hammocks. Nothing to do but sit back with a book, sip a beer, and occasionally hop in the water when the beating sun becomes too much. You’re picturing Playa Blanca, a beach tucked away 20 miles from Cartagena, the paradise that other paradises are based […]
A little over five years ago, a 16 year old boy by the name of Diego Felipe was shot and killed in Bogota for the crime of spray painting a cat on a wall. Since then, street artists both local and foreign have started a street art movement across Colombia as a form of protest […]
The Trip has officially started. That’s still weird for me to say. We’re in Cartagena, Colombia, our first stop on the South American continent, and already the sights, sounds, colors, and culture offer striking differences in the best kind of way. We landed at the Cartagena airport at around 1pm local time. The airport is […]
Colombia will be our first stop, so whenever I get the itch to do some research, it tends to be at the forefront of my mind. As a result, I probably have a better idea of what I’ll want to do there than most of the other stops we’ll be making. Here’s a few of […]