stories from and about south america
Recently I was reading a short article about the Maya civilization of Central America, and the development of what may well be the first known use of an explicit zero in the world. (Trust me, talk to any mathematician and they will be able to talk for hours on … Read more...
Continue reading...→A post or two ago I spoke about bus travel in South America. I boarded the bus from San Gil to Cucuta at around 2pm, and was looking forward to arriving at my host’s house in Cucuta at around 8pm. Wishful thinking. When you look at the … Read more...
Continue reading...→There are so many travel opportunities in Colombia. The only reason I ended up in San Gil instead of Cartagena was the desire to get to Venezuela, and San Gil was a convenient half-way point between Bogota and Cucuta. What I hadn’t realized about San Gil is that it … Read more...
Continue reading...→Bus travel in South America is fabulous. It’s not often you’ll run across an opening statement about South American transport that positive, but what options are there? Train services barely exist, and in those areas where trains are available they are generally intended more for tourism than … Read more...
Continue reading...→I weighed in at 100kgs when I left Canada – that’s about 220 pounds – and I am 1.88 m tall (6’2” for old timers). I mention this because it has a certain amount of importance to the entire story. Despite my more or less … Read more...
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