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Merry Christmas everyone! Time to kick back, relax, and enjoy time with the family. Time to eat too much and drink to excess. Time to exchange presents and have a kiss or two under the mistletoe. To tell you the truth after 5 months on the road … [Continue reading]
Another frustrating day in the socialist nirvana that is Venezuela. Things normally work out here, but only with extravagant effort. First, our laundry barely arrives in time for us to checkout. Second, our fixer, Miraye, was able to get us on a … [Continue reading]
Our overnight bus ride to Puerto Ordaz is literally a frigid experience as the air-con is set to maximum. All interior lights are switched off, making reading impossible. The seats don’t recline very far and neither is there much room making sleep … [Continue reading]
And so begins our next adventure: a journey to the base of the highest waterfall in the world. Christi and I together with Kelvin and Ashley and George and Chow-Lung are in a long narrow speedboat and on the Carrao River by 8:30 am – earlier than … [Continue reading]
Our guide, Elliott, wants myself, Christi, Kelvin, Ashley, George, and Chow-Lung to begin hiking to the base of Angel Falls at 5:30 am. The neighboring camp sites have a different plan, however, and loud voices disturb me at 4.15 am as hikers … [Continue reading]
Flights from Puerto Ordaz to Margarita Island (with a change of plane in Caracas) are straightforward – perhaps one of the few things that are in this country. During the layover in Caracas I try to exchange the Brazilian Reals I acquired in Santa … [Continue reading]
Margarita Island, located just off the Venezuelan coast in the Caribbean Sea, is where Venezuelans (and sun worshipers from Europe) come to party over Christmas and New Year. According to our by now tattered copy of the LP guide to South … [Continue reading]
It's New Year's Day - Happy New Year Everyone! Today Christi, Kelvin, Ashley, and I finally indulge in the classic Caribbean beach experience. Remarkably all the trash and used fireworks from last night has been removed by the time we arrive … [Continue reading]
Christi and I get up early to say goodbye to Ashley and Kelvin and never really get back to sleep again. Both Christi and I wish that we too were leaving, but our onward flight from Caracas to Bogota, Colombia, departs in two days so there … [Continue reading]
Our room at the Costa Linda Beach Hotel in Playa El Agua comes with a free breakfast - if you can drag yourself out of bed by 10:30 am. And as Christi and I are feeling rather becalmed in this island paradise, 10.30 am seems awfully early. … [Continue reading]
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