Back on the Road

At this point in our story, we had discovered the problem with our credit card, and were waiting for a new card to arrive in Bogota from Canada. We didn't want to move on without it, but we were getting kind of antsy waiting for it. Finally it showed up in the mail while we were in the middle of a lunch party with Juan's family and friends. We saw many interesting things and met MANY people in Colombia, but just the same, I was happy about the prospect of being on the road again. We stayed another two days, and then caught a bus out of Bogota, towards Cali. From there we flew back to San Jose, Costa Rica and spent another night in the hostel with the pool (high luxury!).

Getting in touch with the people who had looked after our car was easy...but finding their small town was more difficult. We rode a bus on an ever-more isolated route, and finally got off at the end of the line...a small bus station that was closed for the day - Sunday. I was a little unsure that we were in the right place, but my fears proved false and we soon had our trusty little car back again. The car had been washed for us, and everything; it seemed to be in great shape. It was such a relief to load our back-packs into the trunk, and relax on the road with our air conditioning and our stereo. We happily headed North again, ignoring the fact that three of the four tires had bubbles in the sidewalls....