Los Aventuras de Edmundo y Linda

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 of bed.  There was waves coming over into the boat and the crew was all running around on deck screaming in German.  4 of the sails were damaged and had to be taken down.  Over the next 4 days the crew used a huge sewing machine to repair the sails.  Tons of food was damaged and had to be thrown out.  Everyone was seasick. 

9 huge birds landed on the top of the boat and spent the whole day pooping all over everything.  A few people got pooed on and some poop some how flew through the window of our room and onto Linda’s sandles… ha ha!   

We anchored the boat in a shallow area and went crazy on the rope swing.  Unfortunately, one of our friends fell in the water on the side of his head and busted his eardrum.  Hope you’re feeling better Moby.

Linda and Moby made the best of the rotten bananas and made some most delicious banana bread!!!! 

 We caught a small tuna and used it as bait for bigger fish.  The tuna fell off somewhere but we later caught 3 mackerels and 3 barracudas.  The captain took out the heart of one of the barracudas while it was still beating… yuck! 

We saw lots of playful dolphins again!!!!!!!!!  YEAH dolphins!

Stephen, one of the crew members, introduced us to peanut butter, honey, and garlic sandwiches… actually really good (according to Edmund)!

Our boat arrived in Cartegena, Colombia at 10:30am. The city is beautiful. The old part of town looks exactly like an old European city and the new part is very modern and has tons of highrises along the edge of the ocean. We checked-in to a hostel, explored the sweet old town, and then met up with our friends from the boat for some beers.

Went out for lunch with a cool canadian dude we met at our hostel. The soup had a chicken foot, liver, and a chicken heart. Everything was pretty gross! After lunch we went to a castle that overlooked the entire city. It was built to protect the city from pirates. We visited the old town and visited with our ship buddies at a restaurant and partied together. Oh… and we are millonaires here… we took out 1.6 million pesos… we are loaded!

Woke up at 4:30am to catch a sweet completely beat-up 1985 Toyota LandCruizer at 5am. The truck had no front or back lights, no front bumper or grill, the windows only open and close by pulling them by hand and ... [Continue reading this entry]

Warning: the next entry talks about gross bathroom stuff. Don´t read it if you can´t handle that. The 10 hour bus ride back to Panama City was sweet! We were both sick to our stomachs the whole way and ... [Continue reading this entry]

The 10 hour night bus to the small ocean side town of Almirante sucked big time. The airconditioning was on full blast and it was impossible to sleep. We arrived at the Almirante bus terminal 2 hours early ... [Continue reading this entry]

Met Nando at the bus station and then took an hour long bus ride to Balboa.  We did a short walk through the jungle and then Nando ferried us across a lake in his hand made canoe to his village, ... [Continue reading this entry]

Edmund slept almost the whole flight!  We were trying to decided whether or not to take a bus from the airport to our hostel ($0.35 - 1.5 hrs) or a cab ($25 - 20 mins).  We were glad to take ... [Continue reading this entry]

Drove back to Guada and chilled at Luis´s house and watched surf videos. That night we met up with our good friend Nacho (The Dorito Man) at his sweet crib and then went out for tasty pizza and drinks. Feliz ... [Continue reading this entry]

We did our laundry... have to take advantage of the automated laundry service at Luis´s house. Luis went skateboarding with a buddy and came back late because we had to drop off Kara at the airport. We ... [Continue reading this entry]

We stopped in a small town along the way to see tons of huge crocodiles.  The crocs weren´t fenced in... and could be a little scary.  There was a funny Mexican dude who spent the whole ... [Continue reading this entry]