Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Land.

So we loaded the bikes on a boat finally and took off for Columbia.
We did meet some fun people that ended up on our boat though. There was one from San Fransisco, another from Germany, three from Australia, one from Israel, and one from England and one from Minnesota. Our captain was from France but lived most of his life in Columbia. His wife was from San Fransisco as on board one of the boat crew as well as their son and one of there friends from France. The Australians were way fun.

We waited all day once for a bottle of Rum. . . The other passengers on our boat ran out of Rum (oh no) so a kuna Indian came by on a boat and promised that he could get us anything we wanted. So they gave him money for a bottle of Rum and a few other minor things and the kuna promised to be back in an hour. 5 hours later after spending the day fishing he came back and said that he could not remember what we wanted and wanted us to write it down. I tied to tell the others to just get their money back and lets go, but they could not go a night without getting waisted.

Mean while two on our boat bought some lobster. Right at the same time the kuna fish warden showed up and said that it was illegal to buy (not sale only buy) lobster that were female. Which who knows how to tell the difference and it so happened that the kuna sold us two females. After the captain talked to them for a half hour and they let it go. However the kuna left during the ordeal.

The crew not wanted to go without the rum nor the loss of the money they gave the kuna wanted to wait around. so the kuna left and after again another 2 hours he came back with everything but the rum. The captain said its too late so we stayed there for the night and the captain when into the village and got the needed bottle of rum so we could finally leave the next morning. Wow what a deal. The San blas islands are awesome though. We found some the missionaries on one of the islands. They lived in one of the small huts crazy
The little Indian villages on the islands are crazy cool, they probably lived the same way forever. There were kids everywhere like 10 kids per adult, all of them come running for you like your from outer space. They love seeing there picture on our cameras.

So me and Matt bought some bread and some Pepsi and sat down in someones yard and started passing them out. kids came from everyone where.


So on our way to another island we ran into a San bar and got the boat stuck. We were stuck, no way of getting out on our own. We did flag another boat down coming buy to give us a pull out.


We finally made it to subzero which was way pretty.


After two days of fighting to find another boat we finally managed to put our bikes on another boat which will not take passengers and we hopped on passanger boat and made it to Turbo but not until after we ran out of gas in the middle of the ocean and had to wait for another boat to come and give us more gas. We are still waiting for our bikes but they should be here in a few more hours. . .

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hope your rides haven't been stolen or sabotaged while out of your control...trust no-one