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Thursday, December 11, 2008
medellin
thought it would be a nice easy descent, given that medellin is 3300 feet below santa rosa and only 67 k away, but the mountains had their last hurrah of the first leg and had me climb another 2700 feet on the way down. i cleared the computer again by mistake, but it was about 75 k at 21 km/hr. drafted a truck on one of the descents and hit 68.5 km/hr on my aerodynamically challenged white donkey of a bike. i strapped my camera to the bike and took a video of one of the steeper parts of the decent. it's 250M so i need to cut it some to make it fit on the internet.
staying at a nice clean hostel with lots of backpackers. can't say i'm a fan of spending a lot of time at these places, but here and there they are quite nice. there's a mega-lo-mart a few blocks away to stock up on rice, sugar, and oatmeal.
i'm going to try and find someone on couchsurfing.com who can take me in and show me the city. i'm not much of a fan of doing touristy things.
i need to work on my spanish too. i can communicate just fine, but conversation is pretty much out of the question.
i enjoy getting emails from y'all, keeping me updated on what's going on at home. so keep them coming and i'll try and keep this thing updated.
thought it would be a nice easy descent, given that medellin is 3300 feet below santa rosa and only 67 k away, but the mountains had their last hurrah of the first leg and had me climb another 2700 feet on the way down. i cleared the computer again by mistake, but it was about 75 k at 21 km/hr. drafted a truck on one of the descents and hit 68.5 km/hr on my aerodynamically challenged white donkey of a bike. i strapped my camera to the bike and took a video of one of the steeper parts of the decent. it's 250M so i need to cut it some to make it fit on the internet.
staying at a nice clean hostel with lots of backpackers. can't say i'm a fan of spending a lot of time at these places, but here and there they are quite nice. there's a mega-lo-mart a few blocks away to stock up on rice, sugar, and oatmeal.
i'm going to try and find someone on couchsurfing.com who can take me in and show me the city. i'm not much of a fan of doing touristy things.
i need to work on my spanish too. i can communicate just fine, but conversation is pretty much out of the question.
i enjoy getting emails from y'all, keeping me updated on what's going on at home. so keep them coming and i'll try and keep this thing updated.
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