Last night I went to bed at 10pm, got up once during the night, woke up at 6:15 and got up at 7am. (That hooting bird hooting kept me from falling back asleep.)
Street was a little wet so we must have had a little rain
sometime during the night.
I left the apt at 9am and got on an Envigado bus outside Smartfit
on Avenida Poblado. I got one of the last two seats. The bus went to the end of
the block and turned right – obviously Ave Poblado northbound is closed – and
took a 5-minute detour until it returned to Ave Poblado near La Frontera.
I got off right outside the Davivienda bank building. Inside
the garage I took the elevator up to the “first floor”, I checked in with the
guard, he called Inter-Col and I took a 2nd elevator up to
the 8th floor. Daniela handed me my new passport, good for 10 years,
and a copy of my digital visa which is good for 3 years. I asked her about the
difficulty for a Colombian to get a US visitor visa but with her accent and
wearing a mask I didn’t understand all of her answer. She said it was okay if I
had Teresa call her and talk to her.
I took a Sabaneta bus to Envigado and got out across from
the bookstore. They had several James Patterson hardbacks and after checking
online I chose “Mary Mary”. I gave them my Scarpetta hardback and 3mil for the
new one.
I walked to the paper store where I printed some pages and
bought 5 money envelopes.
In Todo Drogas I purchased my medications for the
month and was soon on an Envigado bus near the park. Still on the bus I
realized I forgot to get my memory drive back at the paper store. Shit, that
means I have to make a special trip. I was back at the apt by 11:15.
Teresa and I had an hour nap after lunch.
I made plans to meet Marcos for coffee tomorrow morning at
10am when café Maca opens. Our meetings usually only last 45 minutes do
from there I’ll probably make a quick trip to Parque Envigado to recover my USB
drive.
Tomorrow Teresa is going early to eps, will return to make
me breakfast, then going to the gym followed by a trip to El Tesoro.
I just noticed Todo Drogas doesn’t give me a very
good exchange rate when I use my debit card but the difference only amounted to
$2 so I don’t know that I should consider carrying cash instead.
I finished John Grisham’s The Pelican Brief on my
Nook.
Funny pix of the day
Terry, good day. I have a curiosity question. How much do you think you and Teresa spend per month on transportation during a typical month? I would think much less than owning a car, even without considering the depreciation on a car and the initial cost.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Jack Williams