Hey, 250 days in. That feels like it should be some kind of milestone. I’d like to say I did something to mark the occasion but… not enough to have actually done something. I had a rousing day of going to Dunkin’ Donuts in the morning not all that successfully. Worked from home for the whole day and then went to our orientation event at Brew House. Afterwards there was a roast for a couple of our fellow Remotes who are departing. Short story on that; freaking hilarious. I was blown away by how well done everyone’s pieces were.
Author: Nomad
Day 249 | January 30
Literally did nothing but worked today. Worked from home too which I never do but my current place actually has natural light for a change and we’ve got a big dining room table that makes it convenient. Took one brief lunch break at J&C Delicias which is a chain arepas joint but other than that I basically powered through until I fell asleep.
Day 248 | January 29
First full day in Medellin. Went to the grocery store with my roommates in the morning despite my never cooking at home. Was a bit disoriented to at long last be in an American style grocery store. In the afternoon we undertook the normal day one routine of just walking around the the city aimlessly. We stopped at 37 Park for lunch which is a really cool place and naturally ran into another half dozen people as they were walking by. In the evening we went up to watch the sunset at this lookout on the mountains and then out for drinks at Woka which was a cool jungle themed place that was also… a little odd.
Day 247 | January 28
Despite the fact that my flight for Medellin didn’t leave until noon I still had to be up and out of my place by around 8am. Of course, this was the case for most of us so I lugged all my stuff down to Canasto Picnic Bistro for breakfast where we had basically overrun the terrace with our party and it’s luggage. Hung out there for a while before heading to the airport where we were sad to learn that our gate was in the one tiny area without a lounge. The flight to Medellin from Bogota is a snap, though. I think we were in the air for… thirty minutes? The Medellin airport is really far from town, though, so it was another 40 minute drive to meet up and get the keys to our place. The part of town we are in is dominated by malls so we ended up eating in one at Romero Cocina once we were settled. In the evening a big group of folks went to this craft beer place fittingly named… Brew House. I called it a relatively early night from there.
Day 246 | January 27
Despite the late night of driving around Bogota on a party bus it was still a week day today so off to an early start. I got a quesadilla for lunch on the way to the office and then basically powered through work all day there. I had to pick my clothes up fromhe cleaner in the evening which is a bit closer than I like to cut it on my packing. So spent the evening packing up for my departure in the morning and then went to sleep early.
Day 245 | January 26
The beginning of the usual travel weekend craziness. Went over to the office to work for most of the day. Had a quick lunch across the street at Burger Town. Productivity really tapered off in the second half of the day, though, as I got distracted looking into trips to Patagonia when I’m down in Argentina. In the evening I had one of my favorite types of events which was a dinner with locals at La Cervecería. Talked to a girl who is working on a social-travel app called NoMoFoMo that sounds really cool. After this we had our usual farewell craziness. Rented a party bus and drove all around Bogota until some indeterminate time. I called it before the party was over and considering my early start time the next day I’m glad I did.
Day 244 | January 25
Another pretty standard weekday today. Went over to Work&Go and worked from there all day. Had lunch at Capital Bagels across the street where I was sad to learn that the breakfast bagel I ordered to-go was “some assembly required.” But I powered through. In the evening I had a neat event where we went over to the offices of APES and learned about their business and the general state of entrepreneurship in Colombia.
Day 243 | January 24
Settled back into life today and worked on catching up on the work that I should have been doing yesterday. Pretty uneventful, just went over to the office and worked there until the evening. Then some of us went to WOK, an Asian place that serves… literally every Asian dish ever conceived of.
Day 242 | January 23
Heading back to civilization today and most of us had work to do. In true digital douche bag fashion we all swarmed the lobby of the hotel to use the wifi and try and be productive. I lasted about… one hour before the heat sapped all my motivation. We had some time to kill so we walked up the street and got ice cream. After a bit we went over to the tiny Leticia airport where we were all crammed into one room waiting for our delayed flight. That wasn’t pleasant but our flight back was super quick. Then of course we had to fight Bogota traffic back to our part of town which was another… hour or two drive. When we finally got home some of us were craving pizza so we went for pizza at La Fabbrica and then some friends of a friend joined us for drinks afterwards.
Day 241 | January 22
After a pretty aggressive day of paddling yesterday today was much more low key. We took a motorized boat up the Amazon today to look for wild life. Our first stop was at “Monkey Island”… Actually I think that’s the real name. This place was pretty cool. It was swarming with this squirrel monkeys and if you had any kind of food they’d be all over you. They’ll climb up you and jump from person to person. It was pretty hilarious. After that we headed back downriver to try and spot dolphins. The Amazon River has a species of pink freshwater dolphins that exist only here. We spotted a few normal grey ocean dolphins and finally caught up to some pink dolphins. It was suggested to us that they were attracted to splashing so naturally everyone jumped in the river (piranhas be damned). The dolphins stuck around for quite a while but did keep their distance. After this we hiked inland to try and spot some sloths. Despite the fact that it was a pretty short trek it was fierce. I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many mosquitoes in my life. While we didn’t spot any sloths we did see some really cool tarantulas and gorgeous butterflies. As well as an assortment of plants that would kill you if you so much as looked at them. Once we got back on the river we unsuccessfully tried our hands at fishing and then called it a day. We tried to go back to our Legends of Rock Bar for dinner but it was closed so we just ate at the hotel again and called it an early night.
