Sunday, April 20, 2025

Last night I went to bed at 9:30pm, got up once at 4am, finally waking/getting up at 7am.

We took our showers, had our last breakfast in the hostel, finished packing and went down to the office. The final bill came to 3,332,000 pesos ($774) which included something like 80mil in snacks so figure just over $100 a night.

We walked outside the hostel and encountered another procession:

We eventually maneuvered our way across the street and about 6 blocks away we were a block from the bus station. Teresa talked to a man and he offered to take us directly to our apt in Envigado for 100mil which we accepted. If the guy’s speedometer was working correctly we only did about 30km/hr but were back at out apt in an hour and 15 minutes.

I took a Calendula capsule and felt relief 20 minutes later. 😊

I tried again to order the chess book from ThriftBooks.com, this time using a different debit card and different browser but still got the same error message. I switched to their offer of using Paypal and still got an error message so I gave up.

About 2pm I took a nap for an hour and in the meantime, we had a thunderstorm come through with a little rain.

I went onto the balcony to clip my fingernails and on the ground level saw a few kids with their parents looking for easter eggs. First time I’ve seen that here. I asked Teresa if that was a custom here and she thought I was crazy.

Tonight I remembered to watch 60 Minutes, a very good episode which highlighted the potential future health risk of H5N1 aka Bird Flu. The current presidential administration will probably drop the ball again and thousands of Americans will die.

 

FUNNY