Back in Colombia, I set to work on making the most of December and getting ready for a transition back to my bicycle. That's right, back on the bicycle :)
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Making natilla on the fire-- a mix of milk, sugar, flour, and spices made during Christmas season |
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Esmeralda's birthday starts with cake fresh from the wood-fired oven |
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spanish practice :) |
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adrian and cat |
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bike frame is back from paint. hott yellow! |
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Manuela is learning to unicycle... |
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Birthday cake! big 3-0 |
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long lost brothers? |
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they made me a great piñata! |
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white russians fo my birthday |
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2 yellow horses :) |
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getting ready to head out on tour |
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leaving san antonio |
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cars for sale |
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if you've read tom sawyer and have a cool bike, you can get this guy to ride it up the mountain for you |
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we're in indiana! or are we? |
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alena and hardy from germany are headed from alaska to argentina |
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how many germans does it take to close a saddlebag? |
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traveling back in time |
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tatanka, in amarillo pollito. |
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camping at an abandoned army base |
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the road gets rough |
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potato harvest |
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road gets rougher |
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now it's just a trail, but a nice one |
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abandoned country home |
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now we are following the cows |
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time for bridge jumping |
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russian import |
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chiva AKA bus escalera. mountain transport |
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after 2 hours of hard climbing, we hop the bus |
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dizzying drops off the road edge. routinely the driver hangs a wheel over the abyss |
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morning in aguadas |
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super duty, colombia style |
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aguadas |
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long way down and back up the other side. an afternoon's work |
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ice cream earned |
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salamina doorways |
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beautiful morning for a climb |
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monstertrucks from green bay, wisconsin in manizales at the fair |
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drug store! with drugs! |
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20 bananas for about 55 cents. yesss pleeeeeease. |
more adventures to come :). it feels good to be abck on the road, if only for a month.