In 2014, Victor was in Panama and his favorite story was visiting Embera village and watching a pet toucan wash himself in a small outdoor sink. Victor turned on the faucet to wash his hands and the bird flew right in and started splashing around and trying to awkwardly fit […]
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The way it usually goes is like this: Victor plans the itinerary, and I book the transportation and accommodations. One thing about Victor is he is meticulous, detail-oriented, and thorough. He doesn’t make mistakes, he doesn’t forget small details, he doesn’t just leave off details from the itinerary for no […]
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Start with Part I Here We were walking from Airbnb towards the livestock barns, and I noticed it wasn’t quite as dark as I thought it would be. As we were driving up the mountain, my fear of encroaching darkness made me feel that it was much later in the […]
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The dusk was setting quickly over Matagalpa, the little red and yellow coffee berries no longer visible on the branches of coffee trees lining the narrow, unpaved road steeply ascending into the mountain. The light of our headlamps jaggedly bounced up and down, as our tiny, rented Toyota Yaris struggled […]
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A while ago, I wrote a single post about paragliding in Medellin, completely skipping over the part where we went to Colombia in 2022 and spent five days in Medellin. Now that I have a few free weeks after finishing all Norway posts and before the next trip springs up […]
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