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August 17, 2013
in Cartagena, Colombia, Latin American Adventure, Round the World, South America, travel

Cartagena was hot. Too hot. And I was feeling a bit warn down. After five months in Central America I had finally landed in my first and only (for now, at least) stop in South America: Colombia. And I wasn't in love. I was afraid that I wouldn't be. Colombia was one of those places that was talked up so much as being a favorite country, a must-see, that I worried that it wouldn't live up to the hype. And while Cartagena was pretty, while the food was cheap and plentiful, while it was a nice town, I wasn't feeling it. It didn't help...

August 7, 2013
in Cartagena, Central America, Colombia, Latin American Adventure, Panama, Panama City, Round the World, San Blas Islands, South America, travel

My sunburnt arm pressed into the wooden deck. My head, propped up with a balled up, wet, pink elephant-print sarong I'd purchased in Thailand. My eyes were closed and I breathed in and out with the waves. It was uncomfortable to say the least, but I was just trying to block out the nausea. The sun was setting on my fourth day of what was meant to be a five day sailing trip: we had officially hit open water that afternoon. For the first few hours I did doing nothing but sit, staring at the horizon. "Everything is going to be...

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