We’ve been here for one week so far and this blog entry will cover the happenings up to this point. Last Tuesday when we set out on our trip everything went very smoothly until we hit some bad weather at our destination airport and ended up having to divert to Bogota. The one airport that we were trying to avoid and we ended up there anyway. We already had a 3 layover flight, which turned into a 4. Other than the immigration people there being slow enough to start a molases racing contest, everything went ok. We ended up in Perera around 11pm and base camp around 1am our time.
I’ve gotten to play soccer every single day since I got here and Elizabeth has been visiting family and friends to the point that she can no longer talk, if you can imagine such a thing. Nothing eventful happened all week, going to the gym at 6:30am, playing soccer until around 10-11am and then working the rest of the day.
Elizabeth and I, along with a few friends got to go to the hot springs an hour or so north of Perera yesterday and I got some nice photos from there. Speaking of photos, I’m sure everyone is surprised that none have been posted yet. Turns out that after moving my stuff back and forth between bags trying to find some combination that would allow me to get things on the airplane, I left not only the battery charger, but also the device that lets me load the card into the computer. So I’m on battery watch and having to conserve energy as I go to try to make 2 batteries last 3 weeks. It has made me take much fewer photos than usual so I hope that things turn out in the end.
This coming weekend we are suppose to go to a volcano that is a few hours away and I hope to get some good pictures from there. If anything eventful happens I’ll post again, otherwise I may wait and make a single post next week.
Until then
–glenn