Bruce

Left Cali this morning and headed for Medellin, the ride through this amazing country side, the roads are good and lined with huge shade trees that almost form a tunnel.stopped for lunch and fuel about half way, after that moving on and a BMW 1150 GS pulls up next to me and motions me to pull over. So I met Louiz a local from Medellin, he said follow me, so we rode on to Medellin and he showed me places and things along the way. It is a stunning ride through mountains and valleys and lush vegetation, this place is amazing and the people are really great to. All allong the way they want to know where you’re from, where you’re going, good luck, safe journey. This is a really nice country, a real jem in South America. Medellin is a beautiful city, the streets are clean, every thing works, and the women are really hot. The climate is just perfect, not hot, not cold, just right, so I’ll spend a day or two here. I’m staying in a hostal owned by a half  Kiwi half A merican real cool place, lots of other travelers, so people to talk to, picking up info all the time and cold beer to.  M ust go now Adios.

I am now in Colombia, dispite all the negative press and coment, it is a really friendly and beautiful country. This is how I imagined a lot of  South America would be, jungles and ravines, rivers and mountains and warm. The mountain passes are quite something, really tight winding roads with drop offs that go down for hundreds of meters, don’t want to go down there. The drivers here are manic, so one has to look sharp!, hours of  intence concentration, yea  I have had a few close calls! I stayed in a hostal with a few other bikers last night, all foreigners and half of them broken from accidents, so I will have to be careful now. O ff to Medellin today, it sounds like a nice place, then maybe 2 more days to the coast, also many more mountains in between, have’nt ridden so many mountains in my life, really beautiful, I just wish that I had got a helmet camera before I left.  Must go now, more later Chow.