Vamos ala playa

Alright.. time for some R & R...

but first a quick haircut..... quick piss.....


... a quick portrat....


... and beach time... Tyrona.

... Next stop... Cartagena...

The Sweaty Days

Magic MaJo


The CP Team


Watching soccer and teaching English

On guard

Suprising enough, you get used to guys running around with automatic weapons

St. Albert representin'

Just part of the trail

Lena bustin out some yoga up at CP. She probably has her zen sweat mustache on.


2 ways to get here... walk or chopper.


This place rocks.


weee! weeeee! ... piggies gone wild


Banana break.


pssstt... stop shitting on the path that we walk on.


Alfredo.. our trusty guide.

There´s the heli-pad... that would have been alot easier.

From the military look out point.

Lena and Sharman are happy to have practiced running stairs in the river valley.

Congo man. Carried the girls across the river.. and creeped them out.

Nicole busting out some stares.

Happy Birthday Grandma.

A video for you!

Ciudad Perdida

After 40 hours of busing and a quick plane ride I´m just outside of Santa Marta in a small town called Taganga.. there is super cheap scuba training here...but more importantly... it´s the portal to the lost city of Cuidad Perdida... Give it a google if you havent heard of it... I´m heading there tomorrow for a 6 day hike... It´s supposed to be pretty intense.. I´ve met up with Sharman and Lena and we´re gonna test our might.. it´s nice to have a taste of home here.

So I was walking by myself last night back to my hostle and some dude followed me down the alley... At first I thought he was gonna be one of the many dudes trying to offer me cocaine.. so I attemped to ignore him.. he was persistant and ran infront of me.. ¨Robb you!¨ said the bad guy... he was hiding a knife or something in his hand under a shirt... I played dumb for a bit.. but he wouldnt let up on my ignorance... so I threw some Pesos (about 2 bucks Canadian) that I had in my pocket on the ground and started walking away.. he grabbed the money and ran infront of me again and pushed me with his free arm.. I think he wanted more...

He was smaller than me and I was questioning if he even had a weapon on him or if he was faking it... I had all my stuff in my money belt hiden under my clothes and he was getting aggressive... He asked for my leather wrist band that Craig Savich gave me.. I love that thing.. so that´s when I told him to go fuck a sock... taking advantage of the language barrier between us.. I gave him my best death glare and I turned around and walked back towards the busy area by the beach... and as I did he scurried off into the shadows with my 2 bucks. I´ve decided that even though I hate him.. I love him... bless his little heart.

Anyways... the bus trip here there were some super cool views.. Colombia is quite amazing. On the way here I´ve met lots of cool travellers that I´ll keep in touch with.

Lesson 1 - dont walk down alleys by yourself.. and if you do.. have 2 bucks separate from shitloads of cash hidden in your pants. After the hike we plan to do some R & R at the beach..

Here is a better pic of the chops.. what kind of fool would mess with these puppys anyways? That´s Michelle with me.. very cool.

Mat

Sun of a gun

The beach cooler than muff.. but it's time to make a move again. Colombia has summoned my white ass so I have a bus ticket out of here in 2 hours. I am going to meet up with Lena and Sharman to hike the lost city. Time to strap on the whip and go Indian Johnson... gotta run and pack!

I´m staying in the place now that I talked about last blog. It´s a much different feel than Mancura. Last night a few of us bought a tuna caught yesterday and cooked it on the beach. A local named Coco has showed us a lot of cool stuff here.. he´s been teaching us to surf a bit too.. however.. most of his ideas cost alot of money... hmmm.... Cole goes home in a couple weeks so I am figuring out if I want to stay here until Craig and Jana come in September or go check out Colombia. Cole and I both shaved our beards... he has sideburns and a handlebar mustache and I have big Wolverine-like chops with a soul strip. It was a joke at first and now its kinda growing on me.

Now what...

I´m in Mancura right now and I´ve done some exploring around the area... I´ve met lots of cool people, did the zip line, volleyball, surfing, etc.. I am paying 5 bucks a night for a room by myself close to the beach.. a few ants here and there.. no hot water.. not quite the ritz.. but it works great for what I need. I´ve been taking Muy Thai classes on the beach for $3/class.. I found out about it because my place is next door to the dojo and they practice with ACDC rocking full blast at 8am... so I didnt really have much of a choice.

Mancura is a cool place.. but it might be time for something new soon... something tranquilo in a place that is not so busy.. and I might of found it today.. I was late for surf lessons today with Cole and the gang so I played catch-up all day trying to find them. The surfer dudes told me they went to Los Organos; it is where there is no traffic on the waves... Mancura surfing is really busy. I didnt find them there but I found an awesome bungalow right on the beach that looks like it should be about 100 bucks a night.. Since it is low season here right now I haggled them down to $10 a night... he also is in need of some graphic design so we will work something out there too.. I´ll go back in a few days and try it out. Takes 2 soles to get there from Mancura.. if you dont know it is a 3 to 1 ratio.. 3 soles is the same as $1 US.

Anyways, I gotta get back outside..

Thanks for the comments.. nice to hear from everyone

Beard Update

I just took this 10 minutes ago.. I havent shaved since July 15th.