We made it to Ecuador. Columbia so far has been my favorite, everyone was so, so, nice, its beautiful. . . I´ve heard that Columbia has the pretties women in the world, its true. We unloaded our bikes and stayed the night. Our bikes made it without any vandalism. but every person that has anything to do with boats or the peer will try to rip you off. They wanted $20 each to unload our bikes. I negotiated before we loaded the bikes that the price included loading and unloading (ran into the same trouble before). They would not do it, so after auguring with them for a while they finally said fine unload it yourself, So we did. We had the bikes unloaded within minutes while 15 men stood stairing at us. You could tell they all felt stupid (thinking we could not do it ourselves). The darrian gap is said to be the most dangerous place in the world. The way to get around it, is not much better. I am just way glad to be back on my bike.
We drove through Medellin it being a big city, we drove on to Santa Barbra, way nice little town (not into the big cities, most people like it for the partie I guess, I´m more into the small towns with the locals. . .). I walked out to the town square and within minutes had 4 Lady's surround me wanting to know where I was from, way nice.
We then drove all most all the way to Cali, but a guy at a gas station offered us his house. He was so nice, way nice family. He lived in a very small town and the whole town came over to see the two greengos.
We then drove to just shy of the boarder. You can drive down the road very far without wanting to stop and take a picture. However, we did run into a few wrecks, one was very very bad. The guy was just sitting on the side of the road with his friend holding him, with others standing waiting for the ambulance. We stopped but there was not much we could do, poor guy (I wanted to throw up).
Today we woke up, drove to this church, so so pretty. Then drove to equator (the boarder was way easy and free). We have stopped in a town Otavalo where there was a big market. We were walking around and saw a big mat with the picture of the army of Heleman. So we stopped and the owner of the shop was the stake president. He is going to give us a ride to church tomorrow.
Tomorrow we should be crossing the equator (southern hemispher). Good times.
