We met at breakfast and arranged to go to the mall for Chris to change over more money. We have to be at the airport by 2 pm for our 4pm flights and checkout is 1pm, so it works out well.
At about 1pm we call an Uber and pay the $6 extra for the large car. When the car arrives it is a nice sport utility (by Renault). We also finally get to go through the 20km tunnel that goes to the airport, which was really just a straight road through a mountain but we have done in now.
At the airport, Chris and I are supposed to be on the same flight, but I had done my entire check-in online and his didn’t complete so he ends up at the counter checking bags and checking in. They end up switching his flight to an hour earlier, so we both go to the lounge and then Chris leaves a little later while I stay there (watching Netflix on my Ipad). I board my flight at 4 pm, takeoff 4:45 and arrive in Bogota at 5:45. I now wait in Bogota until early morning for my flight to Leticia in the Amazon. Chris stays at the airport for his 11pm flight out.
I have somehow acquired a cold, which is a little bit of a downer. Hoping it doesn’t get worse or mix with some weird amazonian virus and take out humanity. I don’t want to be patient zero. So, in Bogota I get myself a cheap hotel to spend the night, which also has an airport shuttle so I can get rest and get to the flight on time. The hotel turns out to be pretty high end but for a good price (hotels.com), I have dinner at about 8pm at the hotel in a nice restaurant where I am certainly the poorest dressed until another North American shows up. After diner I crash out in the room.
On the plus side, I bid $35 for an upgrade of my flight to the amazon and it was accepted, so the flight will be a little more comfortable than peasant class, which I had to fly today (yes…the voice in my head said it with a touch of snobbery).
Colombia Motorcycle Ride 