Greetings from South America!!!
We arrived in Cartagena, Columbia last night after a short flight from Panama City and are staying in a small hotel in the heart of the city. Our motor home was shipped and should be here tonight and we will pick it up tomorrow. Hotels are fine but there's nothing like our home away from home with all of your stuff.
This is a port city with ancient walls and fort and beautiful beaches, We plan on a tour of the city this afternoon. As usual all the people we meet are happy to help and try to communicate with us and we are getting better with our spanish. Our stay in Panama was a pleasant one. We left our funky B&B and moved to a small hotel in the heart of the city. We could walk and explore. We found our best meal yet in a Peruvian style restrurant == Sea Bass stuffed with shrimp. Hmmmm so Good.. The city is huge and growing with too many skyscrapers to count and more on the way. Donald Trump Towers have just opened. Lots of money(Canal) around. Exiting Panama was not a problem except they took m y sissors at the airport.
The weather is Hot and Muggy with rain anytime. We are 4000 miles from Paducah Kentucky and seems like a longer way with all the cultural changes. Some things remain the same. The young women are beautiful in their tight jeans and 5 inch heels and glossy black hair. The men donot wear shorts. Everyone is talking on cell phones.
We are excited about new places and faces to come
Take care
Gerry and Bill
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Cartagena, Columbia... are you kidding me??
ReplyDeleteNobody goes camping in Cartagena!! Wait, I forgot who I was talking about!! I hope you get to visit the old fort, it looked cool in the movie, "Romancing the Stone", with Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito.
Keep on truck'n!!
Don