HELLO FROM BUCARAMANGA, COLOMBIA

I have arrived in my native city after seven days ridding from Cartagena, a total of 690km, beautiful views, and lovely people!  My arrival was awesome, Silvia's family received me just outside of the city and they had posters, whistles, three cars full of people all cheering me on for the last hour into the city and to my mother in law's apartment. t'was really nice of them, and then my brother in law, Camilo, got me an interview with the local news paper, the story will be published in their weekend edition, pretty cool!  Now i get to rest and take it easy for a bunch of days, and the best thing is Silvia arrives on the fourth and i get to spend time with her before heading out again towards my final destination.  I'm so greatful for this wonderful experience, the people i met, the places  seen, and all i have learned.  Life is great!

HOLA DESDE CARTAGENA COLOMBIA

I arrived yesterday!  I always forget how extremely beautiful this city is, wow! tomorrow i head towards Bucaramanga where i was born and grew up, it should take me about 10 days, thers been lots of heavy rain in the interior of Colombia and landslides have the road closed but i trust ill make it since im on a bicycle!  I found a great hostel called hotel familiar and its only a few blocks from the old city wich is all colonial and surrounded by fortress walls, the castle of San Felipe is within walking distance, i finished assembling my bike tyoday so i went for a ride all around town, it was a beautifull sunny day and tonight the full moon is out and im setting my alarm clock for 230am so i can see the best part of the lunar eclipse! well thats all for now, lots of love to all!

HELLO FROM PANAMA CITY, PANAMA

After i left Jaco, i went to Quepos were i stayed at a great hostal called the wide mouth frog, met lots of great people and the atmosphere was so good i ended up staying 3 days, then i headed with my new friend Paul to Dominical, i arrived first and he came later by bus, we stayed at the end of the dirt road that is the tiny surfing town of Dominical, at a hostel called piramis, run by a really wonderfull spanish lady from saragoza, called Acension, she was really wonderfull, the beach was amazing, the river too, and the jungle made it really my favorite spot so far, i could have stayed there for a whole year, but stayed 4 days instead, had a great time with paul and Cody, a California free spirit lady, who lived in hawaii for a long time and now is just looking for land to grow food and live on, among many other wonderful people, went fishing, hiking, had fires on the beach and just relaxed, it was a nice break, Quepos and Dominical.
After this i continued to ride hard towards panama, the highlight was Las Lajas beach were i camped and had the whole place to myself, the night sky was amazing.  Now I'm in Panama City and it looks like i'll be flying to Cartagena, Colombia since the north east of Panama has been flooded for a while now and i cant make it to the port where i was going to take the boats down to Colombia, but its a very short flight and then ill be back on my bike straight away!!!