Day 67 - Marko Round The World

Day 67 1/1/2022

Odometer 31,280 – 31,340 —- 60 Miles (8640 Miles Total)

San Gil, Colombia

What a lovely night of sleep with no one snoring. I’m learning to appreciate quiet nights in the dorm rooms a lot more now. I went out for breakfast and it was so quiet on the streets at 8:30am after New Years. It was nice to have the streets all to myself. I got some delicious breakfast at a little shop and it was so good that I ordered two of it. I went down to the market and got two fresh cups of OJ. I got back to the hostel and packed up for the day. I was gonna go to a small town about 30 minutes away to go swimming for a few hours. I got the bike out of the parking garage which cost me $1.50 for the night. I love it.

I took the ride on lovely twisty roads to the town and then drove down a dirt path. I parked and got my ass to the river. The water was quite cold which was nice since it’s so hot here and I laid there for a few hours just getting even darker than I already am. I read my kindle for quite a while and took a few naps. This is life, just chilling out, relaxing and napping whenever I want. Life is going to be brutal this summer when I have to get back to work skydiving. Not looking forward to it.

It got a bit cloudy after spending like three hours there and I decided it was time to go check out a town Nick and Danielle recommended. It took me about an hour to get over to that town where there was an incredible viewpoint of the Andes mountains and land nearby. I sat there for a bit enjoying the view and then went into town for food. The town has these beautiful pavers on every single street with white wash walls on every house. It was beautiful. I miss seeing things like that in Mexico! I took some pictures of the bike in the streets and I decided I would head back. On my ride back I remembered I wanted to go bungee jumping in San Gil.

I pulled into the parking lot of the Bungee place about 35 minutes later and signed the paperwork. It only cost 20 bucks, I couldn’t believe it. The jump was 230′ over a river. I waited about 45 minutes in line and it was my turn. I was wondering if it was all anxious about it and jacked up even though I have 500 BASE jumps. The guy asked what I did for work and I told him. He was pretty thrilled about it. I got on the platform, he gave me some instructions and I walked up the edge. He gave me a 3,2,1 countdown and I jumped. Oh I miss that feeling. I had a great exit and body position, I pitched my body at a steep angle right after I left so I wouldn’t get whipped by the force when the bungee hit line stretch. The pressure at line stretch was pretty strong. I wasn’t expecting it. They lowered me down and I was back on earth. I rode my bike back into town to finish up today’s blog.

I cleaned myself up and went out for dinner, made some friends at the restaurant and hung out with them for a bit. I was invited to play cards at the hostel before I went out to dinner so I went downstairs in the back and there were about 6 people playing. I jumped in to play Rummy 500 the card game. After a round of that we played some other card game which involved some speed. We were all laughing so hard to the point where we were snorting like pigs and the guy that worked at the front desk told us to be quiet about 6 times. We played till 1am. I was too jacked up from the high speed card game so I took an edible to go to sleep and shared one with one of the girls from the card game. She was sleeping in the same dorm room as me and her whole family was in there too. They are from Bogota. We ended up chatting in the kitchen for the next hour while the edibles slowly kicked in. I almost fell off my chair like 4 times. Comical. We both decided it was time to sleep!

Panoramic view from Barichara of the Andes