Day 101,102

Day 101-102  2/4/2022- 2/5/2022

Odometer  34,253 – 34,300 ——   47  Miles (11,600 Miles Total)

Salento, Colombia

Day 101

Didn’t do much today at all. I felt like laying in bed between going out for breakfast and dinner. Watched a bunch of Netflix and slept. I think I’m starting to turn into a person I never thought I would be. Being alone. I really enjoy my time alone lately and the idea of going out and interacting with people drains me and makes me not want anything to do with that at all. It’s weird. I’m going to think about that in the next few days and wonder why that is. 

Day 102

I got up and headed out for breakfast. I had a nice peaceful day yesterday of doing nothing and I feel recharged. I’m on a mission to find a motorcycle at home. I said about 20 dealerships I found online that might have a lead on a 2022 Tenere 700. I went out for breakfast and wrote down every dealer with their phone number in my notes and called them all at breakfast. I just missed one by a few hours in Arizona. 

The owner of the hostel told me about this dirt road that leads from Salento to Toche. He said it would take me about 4 hours to ride it but it was only 28 miles long. Right after my 20 phone calls and breakfast I stripped the bike down and decided to go for it. I threw my backpack on with 2 liters of water and my camera and hit the road. I started up the road which was super muddy. The last few days here have been sunny and beautiful for the most part but of course the day I want to go ride this dirt road it rained all night. I hit some really bad muddy spots and my tires don’t have much tread left on them so it was a mess getting through the mud! I got about 8 miles into the ride and I climbed up about 4000′ in elevation but then it got super foggy and it started to rain. I didn’t have the patience to ride in mud, rain and fog on bald tires for the next 6 hours so I made the call to turn around. I was pretty bummed. I headed back into town and decided I would head to a town called Filandia that Daniella told me about.

I threw my box back on the bike and took a quick 35 minute ride over. The roads were gorgeous just as expected. I found a nice viewpoint that I hung out at for a bit and then I went into town to get a delicious lunch that Daniella told me about. This girl should be a damn tour guide since she knows of a restaurant in every town in Colombia. I spent most of the afternoon in Filandia and then headed back to Salento for the evening.

On my ride back my buddy Dago that I skydive with back at home told me he was thinking about coming by on his bike from Padua about 4 hours away. Next thing I know it’s 7pm and I decided to go out to the local coffee shop to buy some more friends at home some good coffee and as I walk out of my hostel there he is! Dago! He literally dodged about 5 huge storms on the way here and didn’t get hit with one of them. It was raining in Salento most of the evening. Lucky bastard! He got a room at a hostel down the block and we went out for some dinner. I got two orders of fish since I was starving. It was pouring out the whole time. I mean to the point if you walked out in the rain you would be soaked in 15 seconds.

We chatted for a while at dinner waiting for the rain to stop and then headed back home. We hung out for a few hours on the balcony of my hostel while he gave me a history lesson on Colombia which was lovely to hear. We made plans to ride all around locally where he grew up for the next few days. We were going to go paragliding and rock climbing hopefully along with some speed flying if the weather was good for any of this of course.