Mexico, Central & South America 2005

Well it was saposed to be only 7 or 8 months heading south. Im already 7 or so months in and im only as far as Guatemala, so it looks like I will have to extend this trip by quite a bit time, o well, worse things have happend. Enjoy!

Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Trying to catch up on blog duties

Well..
so much to catch up on. i defenatly should have wrote lots as soon as i got back to the real world, a bunch happened and i didnt get a chance. im going to put off telling you about the darien because it needs some good thought to wright it out well. ill just say for now, that it was an amzing adventure and probley one of the coolest experenceses ive ever had in my life.
when we got back from the darien we spent the rest of the day running some arends and relaxing, first thing the next morning a german guy came and intraduced himself to me. he new a friend of mine and was told that i needed to head to columbia. i had been planing to fly to columbia in just under a week. he told me that in 45 min hes taking a few travelers to colon where there going to sail to columbia. if i can get my shit togeather and im intrested im welcome to come a long, have to pay of coarse but its not much more then a flight and i get to have a cool experence. alright, im in. cram the rest of my breakfast down my throat, run up stairs to pack, hand a bunch of stuff i need to mail home to my traveling parner. she doesnt want to come, no worries i will meet her in south america. gave her a list of things i need done while im gone. things that where going to take a few days of running around. a bunch of it i was able to put off till columbia. but she helped me out a ton.
came down stairs, met the other 5 ppl who i would be sailing with. 3 ozzys an american and a swiss. all good ppl. took a taxi to the bus station, jumped on a duble decker bus that was just pulling out. of coarse theres seets on there, get on. ok. we pull out, the thing is full to the brim, no problem u can sit up with the driver. he shoves into this alice in wonderland door and we crawl forwords into pitch black, and then theres no more to crawl. a cuple of the ppl made into the drivers caben, the rest of us are stuck on our hands and knees. setle in, its a two hour ride. great. after about 20 closterphobic minites the bus breaks down, we are the first ones out. another bus comes saprisingly quickly and we get the best seets this time.
we make it the coast and meet guidos (our captain) wife silvia. they are some crazy ass germans. they where in a biker gang for like 15 years till some thing happened and they had to get ouf the countrey. they moved to greece and opened a biker bar till some thing else happend and they had to leave again. they have been on the boat for 11 years. i dont think they can ever go back. nice enuff ppl though. we do some running around town grabing beer and food. we set sail and run into a small storm first night. three ppl throw up, im so happy im not one of them. next day was incredable, we have arived in the sun blas islands. theres a very small town where we get our exit stamp before heading on, we sail all afternoon, drinkiong beer and enjoying the sun. around mid day we arive at a bunch of tiny diserted islands. straight out of the movies, palm trees and white sand. theres a cuple other boats ankered here, friends of the germans. we spent the next cuple days drinking beer, snorkeling, watching the dolphins play and reading. we decided to leave and head to columbia, winds good and we shouldnt have any problems. middle of the night we hit another storm. the boat is swaying so much u cant lay in bed with out falling. theres more lighting out side then there is dark. worst storm they had been in for a few years. next day i slept almost none stop, didnt get any sleep cause i was was all over the cabin the nigh before. the next night we hit yet another storm. used to it by now, nothing new. nothing much to say about it.
we got into cartagenn columbia mid day. checked my email and found out my traveling parner eliya is here waiting for me. met her at the hostle and did a wonder of the town. really nice place here. really big. where staying in the old walled colonial part of town. this place used to get atacked by pirates all the time, it was the last stop the gold made before heading across the ocean to spain. very nice target. tons of history here.
anyways going to go explore
lots of love
mikkel

3 Comments:

At 12:02 PM, Blogger Dad said...

Hey Mikkel, good to here from you! Well another chapter in your amazing travels . Like I've said before its just like reading a book, enjoy it so much . Glad your safe and all is well. Everything always seems to be going your way (except the dog bite ) So keep that horseshoe where it is. Those desert islands sound so cool, wish I could see them, not to many people have I guess. Well I hope your journey continues, as well as it has in the past, I'll do my father thing and tell you to stay safe in Columbia, and don't let your gaurd down. Enjoy Mikkel!! Proud of you! Bye for now ..Love Dad

 
At 4:43 PM, Blogger Brandie said...

Wow that sounds sooo amazing! All I can do to picture it is think of the stuff I have seen on the Amazing Race, but I am sure it doesn't even compare.

Our life has been stressful so far. Trying to pack while looking after two kids, and feeling very unmotivated. We sold both our cars, so today Garrett's mom went by bus up to Edmonton to go borrow Garrett's brothers extra truck so we have something to drive till we leave. We are using the money from the sale of my van to help pay for reno costs.

Found out Microsoft would have packed us (spent all last week getting people to help us pack), but in order to do the renos we kind of needed to do as much packing ourselves anyways. this weekend Téa has a birthday party, and Garrett is going to be building the rest of the back deck, and painting both decks. A week from now we are getting painters in and a guy to put in some tiles in the bathroom areas. Lots of renos going on in a short period of time!

heads up to ya mate, enjoy your travels! Lang may your lum reek!

Brandie

 
At 4:50 PM, Blogger Mom said...

Hello my luv:
So nice to hear your voice yesterday, and that you are safe, healthy!! and happy!
Great adventures. We went to see Mom and Dad last weekend and I printed off all of your stories. Mom is reading them now and is very impressed. She actually called me to say she worries about you, isn't that sweet!!
We have been working on the house, looking great. Would be so great to see you, miss you a lot. Love you like crazy!
Mom and Dee
(ps: Dee is reading this too!)

 

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