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Costa Rican Animals
A few days ago my dad and I went on a walk around the town of Uvita, Costa Rica and saw a bunch of macaws. They were scarlet macaws and were very pretty. There are 3 main species of macaw: hyacinth, scarlet, and blue and gold macaws although there are 16 other types of macaw.…
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A Man, A Plan, A Canal
Our car did not go through the Panama Canal. The fee for a container ship to transit the canal is hundreds of thousands of dollars, and as that cost gets passed on to the customer you try to avoid sending your car through the canal. Our car did take us to see and then later across…
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Cartagena Island Tour
While we were in Cartagena we went on a tour of islands near Cartagena. We had to take a bus to get to the beach. After the bus we got on a boat and went to freedom beach. Freedom beach was a club and restaurant. There we played in the ocean for a while then…
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Cartagena
We ended up staying almost two weeks in Cartagena. The shipping process is slow, with lots of waiting for documents and inspections and for large metal boxes to be moved from one place to another. As far as places to wait for things to happen, it was a great place to be stuck. Cartagena is…
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Mother’s Day
For Mother’s Day we did something really fun. We went to a Mud Volcano! We drove there and got out of the car to see a 40 foot(ish) tall mountain thing. There was mud all over it, not spilling out continuously but covering parts of the hill. We put on our bathing suits, bought tickets…
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Panama!
Last week I dropped our car off at the Port of Cartagena, and spent a very hot day getting it inspected, prepared for shipment, and loaded into a container. Inspection in Colombia includes a fairly detailed anti-narcotics search in which two police officers searched the car thoroughly (including drilling some holes into the base of…
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Pictures of Sloths
A few days ago, the kids posted about seeing sloths and monkeys in Centenario Parque in Cartagena. When we went, the sloths were not very photogenic and a bit far away for the iPhone cameras. We went back today in the afternoon, and the sloths were more active (relatively speaking) and closer to the ground.…
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Sloths ‘N’ Stuff
Two days ago we went to the Parque Centennial, a park in Cartagena. We went there with lots of hope because Mama had said there might be creatures like sloths there. We got there and almost immediately were greeted by an enormous Iguana in a tree. The Iguana was a lot bigger than we all…
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Monkeys in the Park
A few days ago we got to Cartagena. We went to a park here in Cartagena. The park had sloths and monkeys and iguanas. We saw an big iguana in a tree and then a water vendor came up to us and showed us a sloth. Then the vendor showed us some cute little monkeys…
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Our Horse Ride in San Augustin
A couple of days ago we went on a horse ride. We stopped every once in a while. We got off and looked at an archaeological site. At the place we were staying they offered horse tours so we got a guide and some horses even though the tour was about four hours long. Our…
