21 days in Colombia.
Sounds like a reasonable amount of time.
That is, until you
subtract the number of hours, which add up to a number of days, spent doing
nothing but driving from point A to point B.
We spend the
equivalent of whole working days, sometimes even longer, sitting on our asses,
alternating between screens: iPhone screens, iPod screens, iPad screens, and
kindle screens.
Sometimes we even
kick it old school by looking out the window screen, a hard-copy novel or PC
laptop.
To pass the time
I've read 3 novels in 3 weeks - which I would never have had the time for as an
employed person.
Other people take it
as an excuse opportunity for binging on movies and TV series. So if I suddenly stop
blogging, it's probably because I've succumbed to watching Game of Thrones.
I've watched the first episode and still have yet to feign any interest.
Our hybrid travel
bus/truck vehicle has two built-in tables on which the crew will sometimes play
card games, although I am so sensitive to motion-sickness I do everyone a
favour by sitting out.
Combined with
winding roads, dirt roads, one-way bridges, roadwork and traffic - it's not
hard for ETAs to become stretched and re-stretched.
But it was worth it.
The old towns are so
picture-perfect I often felt like I was on a movie set. Its colours leak into
the neighbourhoods: houses with cement walls have exterior coats of unabashed
fluorescent pink, lime green and taxi cab yellow.
I'm putting this charmer of a country on my list of favourites :)
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