Day 83

Day 83 1/17/2022

Odometer  32,550 – 32,560 —  10  Miles (9860 Miles Total)

Medellín, Colombia

This blog is starting to feel weird to update since i’m just hanging out in one city for the last week and plan on being here another 5 nights. I wonder if I should keep updating this when I plan to hang out in Medellin for a month or two after I get back here from Ecuador.

Anyway. I got up and had a busy day planned. I shot over to a salsa class I had booked from 10-11. I had a new girl I didnt dance with before. She warmed me up like everyone else but then got on my ass about my shoulders and arms not moving enough and I guess she decided it was time to get me working on that to loosen up and stop dancing like a white person. I didn’t know the hands and shoulders were supposed to move in sync with the opposite side of your legs. Well this confused the hell out of me and I did terribly during the whole class. Too much movement worrying about swinging my arms in with each step, making sure my arms are moving inwards, making sure my shoulders are moving the right direction, and then on top of that making sure im making the right steps on the beat at the same speed and catching all the sam moves out of basic 1,2,3.

For the first time in as long as I could remember I got frustrated that I couldn’t get it and just wanted to walk out in the middle of class and quit. I almost did. Now I know what it feels like for my skydiving students that can’t stop spinning in free fall when they can’t figure out how to fly stable. I stayed though and I just wasn’t having any fun at all. I got through the class and was bummed I had another hour booked with the same girl at 2pm. During the last few minutes of my class with her I looked over at Spencer and he was there grabbing some water. He was taking a class in a few minutes. So funny how I have friends I see around town now.

I grabbed my bag at the end of class and had two hours to kill. I went down to my normal breakfast spot. I sit down and the girl already knows what I want and how. 4 Eggs, hash browns, toast, pancakes, a huge bowl of fruit and fresh mandarin juice. I worked on my blog and edited pictures for a while. Spencer showed up at one point and he got breakfast here too. His bike has been having issues and he was telling me about it. We were trying to figure out what the issue might be. He dropped the bike off at the KTM dealer a few days ago and they’re working on it pretty slowly with no luck and he has to book a flight to fly his bike to Chile pretty soon. We hung out and chatted for a while and then he decided to go down to the dealer to put some pressure on them to find out what’s wrong with his bike.

I got back to the salsa school at 2pm for round two. It was the same deal I just wasn’t having a great time. I got a little better towards the end of class but I still wasn’t happy. I booked a class for the next day with the girl Spencer danced with today and one for Wednesday with the first girl I had teaching me.

I shot home and changed, and went over to Crossfit. Anastasia came to class again! We had a good class. It was quite brutal and quick. We stayed after for 20 minutes to do another good Ab workout and then went home. We cleaned up and decided to meet up for dinner with Spencer and Matteo from the other night. I ran some errands after the gym and got my linen shirts dry cleaned so I had to pick them up. I couldn’t believe how clean my white shirt was. I thought it was destroyed forever.

I grabbed Anastasia on the bike and we shot over to a Korean street food joint Spencer found. We had a good dinner, chatted for two hours, had some alcohol and Matteo showed up. We went out to a few bars he wanted to show us. He’s a tour guide in Medellin and starting a tour company in New York. He’s a damn good one as well from what we saw. We ended up at a small salsa bar that was pretty dead and we chatted for a while about all kinds of things. We all danced a bit and I worked on what I learned today in class and it was all so fun. The time flew by so quickly and next thing we knew it was midnight. We all went home and I passed out like a baby in my room.