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  • Jardin: Hats, horses, doors and a cable car

    Jardin: Hats, horses, doors and a cable car

    Jardin is known as the most beautiful town in Colombia and the town lives up to its marketing.

    The mountains were stunning, the people were nice and all the men wore hats which I loved seeing.

    And then there were the doors. I could have taken 1,000 photos of doors. I tried to restrain myself since these were houses. I tried to only photograph businesses or at least homes with no open curtains or doors.

    Anybody home? I’m not casing your house, just like your door.

    Our Air BNB was beautiful but a bit loud. They seemed to be training horses to River Dance on our street.

    Again but this time stompier.

    This priest rang his bell a bunch.

    Hey guys, in case you didn’t hear the church bells, it’s time to pray.

    And of course the fruit vendor.

    Wake up! It’s 6am time to buy bananas.

    Jadin is close to the equator but at 5,000 feet much cooler than Panama City.

    What’s wrong with the air? Oh right this is what under 89 degrees feels like.

    Everything was so colorful from the doors to the buses to the chairs on the square.

    After looking around the town we needed to see the town from above so took a funicular.

    I’ll just do the hooky pokey before getting in.
    Sheryl: This is totally safe right? Jeff: Um, just sit very still.
    Translation: please don’t make abrupt movements or sway.

    We made it to the top and the view was amazing. We walked around a bit, had some beer and rode back down.

    Forget it. If I can’t sway in the cable car I’ll just walk down.

  • Medellin, for about ten minutes.

    Medellin, for about ten minutes.

    We spent our first night in a hotel and went out for a great dinner. I have no photos because I got over hungry and was hangry.

    The view from our hotel the next morning was stunning. Our included breakfast included some Colombian specialties.

    Hot chocolate for breakfast. Yum.
    Bunuelos are good but not quite a doughtnut. More like cornbread.

    After breakfast we did a quick walk before packing up and leaving town.

    We rushed to catch a bus to Jardin the small town we were spending mid week in since it gets crowded in the weekends.

    Sheryl: I just love leaving my hair curly. So quick and easy. Jeff: We can take a later bus if you need time to work on your hair.

    Our bus trip was three hours on a tourist bus. We were a bit frazzled from the traveling the day before. But no problem we’ve done bus rides before.

    Sheryl: We are cool! Jeff: We are adventurous.

    The bus ride was fine. But by hour three we were feeling our age.

    Jeff: My back hurts.
    Sheryl: My self esteem hurts.

    The stop for the bathroom was 3 1/2 hours into the ride probably the longest I’ve gone without peeing in a decade. It cost 500 pesos which is the equivalent of eleven US cents.

    Best 500 pesos I’ve ever spent.

    Jeff was delaying getting back on the bus.

    There’s got to be an airport around here somewhere.

    But then 4 1/2 hours later at arrived in Jardin and it was worth the trip.

  • Colombia

    Colombia

    Jeff and I are still hanging out in Panama. But now we are finally doing some exploring.

    We rushed to get this book sent from the US. I still haven’t opened it, hopefully Jeff has.

    First trip is to Colombia. We are taking a two week vacation to a country we’ve wanted to see for decades.

    Sheryl: We are 22 yrs old and just started dating, but want to go to Colombia?
    Jeff: Sure but let’s wait 23 years until we are old and a bus ride will hurt our backs.

    It’s been so long since I’ve packed for a vacation I forgot how.

    Most important is Sven, my stuffed support sloth.

    We flew on an airline called Wingo. The name sounds a bit too silly for an airline.

    Jeff suggested I start blogging again.

    Thirty photos later he wasn’t so psyched for me to blog

    I hate the internet.

    Our flight was great we got to Medellin and got an Uber. Well one of us got the Uber. The other one was busy “taking selfies for the blog.”