Los Aventuras de Edmundo y Linda

After growing his beard for over 6 weeks Edmund finally got a shave! It cost $2 to get a straight razor shave in Cartegena from a barber working in the same room as a photocopy company. The barber had huge thick glasses but did a great job.

We met up with the crew from the boat for supper. We all ordered steak!

The next day we met up with Guillermo and his friend Lijia and visited some local food and beer spots.

The kitchen in our hostel is about the same size as a small closet. Linda cooked us an amazing meal!

We did a sweet day trip to a mud volcano!  The mud was cool it was impossible to swim or sink.  After the mud we stopped at a small fishing village for some seafood.  While making supper at the hostel, Linda knocked a bottle of oil onto the floor and then 2 minutes later a pot of eggs.  So we continue on with the theme of our trip: Linda be more careful.  Later that night we met the boat crew at Cafe Havana for live music and drinks.  Lutwig, the captain, bit both of us on the neck (and Linda´s leg earlier – see photo) as a goodbye gift.

We woke up late, didn´t have money to buy food and then spent many hours trying to find a stupid bank to exchange our stupid american money into stupid colombian pesos.  Stupid.  Finally got that done, stuffed ourselves with good food and then chilled at our hostel and did some sweet trip planning.

The first day out on the open ocean was really wavy and everyone felt kind of poopy.  Edmund was a zombie because he took sea sickness pills.

Linda felt poopy for most of the trip.  During one of her night watches our friend J lifted up his arms to the sky and said: “Universe, give us a fish!”  2 seconds later a flying fish flew onto the boat!!!!  They threw the fish back into the ocean but the captain was mad because flying fish are supposed to be one of the best tasting fish.  A huge wave came crashing over the upper deck on the boat and completely soaked everyone.  And not surprisingly… more DOLPHINS!!!!

While arriving to Cartegena we both got strapped into harnesses and took turns being pulled up to the crows nest, 20 meters above the boat.  We had to hold onto the mast on the way up to keep from swinging out of control.  Edmund and a few others on the boat got sick with a nasty cold.  Edmund fought back by eating a clove of garlic each morning, taking lots of vitamin C, cold fx, and washing his sinuses with salt water by snorting it out of a glass (a trick Stefan taught him).

Here is one of the earliest pictures of what is now the Stahlratte (“Steel Rat” in German) boat.  Lots of modification have been made since its original construction.

The boat was ported at the marina in Port Antonio, Jamaica. The marina was pretty posh, so we spent some time in the pool and on the free internet. We ... [Continue reading this entry]

Our first night in Santiago de Cuba kind of sucked.  Gross food, bad night club, lots of people bothering us, and our old crappy '51 Chevy "taxi" got a flat tire on the way back to the marina.  Oh, and ... [Continue reading this entry]

Anchored in 3 different spots around the islands on our way to Santiago de Cuba.  Did lots of snorkeling, caught and ate a bunch of conch, traded some beers and rum to some fisherman for a ... [Continue reading this entry]

Our "taxi" from Havana showed up 2 hours late, stopped about 5 times to visit his friends, and got stopped 3 times by the cops.  He didn't get in trouble for driving us because he said that we were his ... [Continue reading this entry]

Havana is an amazing city!  One of the top cities we have visited so far.  We saw a Flamenco show, ate lots of gross food, ate lots of tasty ice cream and cheap, cheap pizzas ($0.30), ... [Continue reading this entry]

Woke up in Cuba!  We ported at Cienfuegos.  It took pretty much all day to go through customs.  The officials brought dogs to search the whole boat for drugs and examine every part of the boat.  We went to shore at ... [Continue reading this entry]

We sailed through a storm on our first day out of Colombia.  It was really scary.  Linda and I were trying to sleep but the boat was rocking so bad that we had a lot of trouble not falling out ... [Continue reading this entry]