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Monday, July 7, 2008

The Muddy Banks of the Caribbean

Stefani went with Ant and Lisa to some volcanic mudbaths today. My understanding is that you basically wallow around in some hot mud like a farm animal. I decided to skip this one and hang back in Cartagena.

Tomorrow we will head up the coast a little ways to Santa Marta and Taganga. There are supposed to be some nice beaches up that way and some good, cheap SCUBA diving. The beaches here in Cartagena kind of suck, so we are looking forward to some new ones.

In other news...We have flights scheduled out of Rio on July 29th to return to the USA. Unfortunately it costs around $900 to get from Cartagena to Rio. It only costs $300 to fly to Miami from here. So it looks like we will fly to Miami and then rent a car for a mini North American Tour. Basically it will be a trip from Miami to Atlanta and then start a loop that goes up to NYC along the East Coast and then over to Chicago. From Chicago, I'll continue back to Atlanta through Indianapolis. The whole trip will take about three weeks starting around July 17th. It sounds like a lot of driving, but after several bus trips over 30 hours long, I really don't think it will be a big deal.

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