civilization

i have returned from the jungle unkidnapped, followed by a few days in the beautiful yet godawful tyrona national park. there is so much to report and so little time to report it. i sort of dawdled early in my trip and now i am scrambling to get in the last few sights. i currently find myself in cartagena which will be followed by medellin (once the home of pablo escobar's ruthless drug cartel, but now supposedly a very pleasant city), and then back to bogota to fly home. i actually have a 7 hour layover in mexico city so i am considering the final challenge of heading to the center of mexico city via the subway, since i've never been there.

this trip has been different in that i have been traveling with people almost the entire time (something that has further interfered with my blogging). i am not quite sure how/why it happened that way. today for example, i share a room with Walt from NYC, who is obsessed with colombian cleavage (which i am forced to believe is more plentiful here than anywhere else on earth). before that there was the turkish/irish nurse from germany, but i had to end that when she got a little weird. i must remember to dial down the charm when traveling with women.