Before my trip to Colombia, I worried about my safety in Bogota. I was headed there for a week — three days on my own (a solo female) and four days with a group of friends. I wasn’t too concerned about whether Bogota is safe as a group, but I had hesitations about traveling solo …
Bogota is a dream for sightDOING if you only know where to look. This is a city that rewards travelers who know what to look for and disappoints those who expect to show up and hope for the best. These twists to traveling to Bogota Colombia transformed my trip from “just another city” to one …
This is a paid endorsement. All opinions are my own. * * * I don’t remember much from my 2005 Bogota stopover, but I do remember guns. Machine guns. And lots of them, everywhere I looked, all supposedly for “my own security.” Colombia has a history of being a violent country and …
There are things that sound like a good idea and then there are things that sound like a bad idea when traveling. Take tejo, fondly referred to as Colombia’s national sport. Locals get together to drink — heavily — and then throw metal pucks at triangle-shaped explosives made from gunpowder. I had to see it, so …
I’ve always wondered what it would feel like to be rich. To have deep pockets where I don’t really have to worry what things cost or keep a running budget in my head. Maybe that’s why I loved Bogota: it’s so darn cheap that I felt like I was rich for a week! Of …
No doubt about it, I’ve made some bad calls when traveling, like trying to climb a volcano the morning after the worst case of travel food poisoning I’ve ever had. Or the first time I went backcountry camping in Virginia. It was only a 14.4 mile trail (a baby compared to what Mike and I …
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