Meandering around a magical walled city
2009-01-24, Cartagena, Colombia. By: fidgi

Cartagena has indeed been as ‘bonita’ as I expected. This walled city by the sea (it was heavily fortified by the Spanish in the 16th century to protect their rich new discovery from pirates), with i...

Scuba Diving Columbian Style
2006-08-04, Cartagena, Colombia. By: aloden

Scuba diving from the small village of Taganga is touted as being close the cheapest anywhere in the world. For $35, me and Steve got two dives and a couple of hours at a private beach complete with ...

andrew looks like a drug dealer
2006-07-29, Cartagena, Colombia. By: aloden

or so it would appear as he was approached on five separate occasions by a private entreprenurial distribution technician (read: drug dealer). all this occurred in a span of several hours as we toure...

Sorry Mom!
2006-07-28, Cartagena, Colombia. By: aloden

For the record, I took at least 30 seconds to think about the decision. But when Steve proposed that we hop on a sailboat for five days and sail down through the Carribean to Columbia, there was noth...