A Chronicle on my Trip to Colombia (good and bad news)

Yours Truly | January 26, 2004 | Yours Truly

[El Conservador]

Share your thoughts!!!

[El Conservador]

Colombia ping...

[cyborg]

Sounds like life back home for my mother (Trinidad and Tobago) and life back home for my best friends (Ghana and Africa). I can't wait to really read this at home (instead of loafing at work!).

[cyborg]

I meant to say South Africa. When my good friend talks me about home, it is clear he misses it greatly so I love to read threads like these.

[farmfriend]

Thanks. BTTT

[CasearianDaoist]

Gee that is great to hear. My friends from down that way tell me that the problem is "a lack of a political culture outside of the big cities." I have not a clue what they are talking about.

[Argus]

Thanks for the update. My wife's family lived in Bogota for a couple of years - she was born there. They loved it. I also get the impression Uribe is a good guy, and a very brave man. I'm pulling for him - I'd like to visit some day.

[lormand]

Here's hoping that Columbia enters the developed world in a healthy way.

[hoosiermama]

Thank you for sharing with us!

[Dog]

Thanks alot for sharing this with us....I have to admit I did laugh at the cows roaming the streets line.

[Zipporah]

My closest friend is married to a Colombian.. I keep up on news from Colombia from them. They still have family in Bogota. He has a very interesting story re Colombia and his father who was murdered by drug lords in Miami.

[Chris Tucker]

Colombia has the best-looking babes in the world.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

ping

[ServesURight]

Very unstable country, I'm surprised you made it out alive.

Those guerrilas would make L.A. gangs look like choir boys. They'll literally slit your throat for a buck.

[bert]

thanks for your report....

[Khurkris]

El, I worked in & out of Columbia in the late '70's - mid 80's. It is one of the most beautiful countries God has made.

I heard an expression there: God made Columbia so beautiful, he had to make the people corrupt. Or something along those lines.

Barranquilla, Cartagena- a very beautiful city, Riohacha and Puerto Bolivar (real wild west places at the time).I also seem to remember a place named Rancho Perdida, or something like that. And then Buenaventura and the road to Cali up from the coast thru the jungle and into the mountains. First time I ever ate bar-b-qued monkey on a stick(but not the last-quite a roadside snack!)

Columbia is beautiful indeed.

[witnesstothefall]

Haven't been down in 3 years myself. I miss Medellin terribly, but the security situation in the major cities is just too dicey - especially for a gringo-looking guy like me.

It's a shame you didn't go a bit earlier and do Christmas there. Nobody celebrates Christmas like the Colombians.....

[xsmommy]

i did 2 field trips to Colombia in the late 70s as a college student. i loved it there. i visited Barranquilla, Cartagena, Medellin, Bogota, Cali, etc but spent the majority of my time in Manizales. i am still in touch with a friend that i made while there, and he is very happy with President Alvaro Uribe. He said he feels much about him as i did about the election of George Bush. i used to rant to him about Clinton and explained how different Bush is, and he said it is much the same with the past Colombian president and this one.

it is a total shame what is going on there, i would love to go back, but i don't know that i would feel safe there again.

[GeronL]

But they are enlightened and we are not!! did the cows in the street seem smarter than our cows too??

[hchutch]

Thanks for the update.