Sunday 4/27/08 Bucaramanga, Colombia
Week 29 Stats
Start city: Santa Marta, Colombia
End city: Bucaramanga, Colombia
Total distance traveled: 349 miles
Days on the bike: 6
Average miles per day of riding: 58.17 miles
Longest day: 72.7 miles
Shortest day: 30.5 miles
Money spent: $103.00
Average money spent per day: $14.71
Nights spent in cheap hotels: 6 !!! (a trip high so far)
Average cost of a night in a hotel: Around $3 US
Nights spent camped out on a 1,000-cow dairy farm: 1
Number of cows we spotted while camped out at the dairy farm: 1 or 2
Number of armed guards dispatched to protect the dairy farm from bandits/guerillas: 8 or 9
Number of times we remarked how suspicious the dairy farm was: A bunch
Number of times I held on to passing trucks while climbing in the mountains so I could hitch a ride to the summit: 5 (Pius and I decided this cycling technique should be called trucksurfing)
Number of times while trucksurfing that I felt like Michael J. Fox when he sneaks truck rides with his skateboard in Back to the Future: Every time!
Flat tires: Uggggh, I prefer not to say. I had trouble with a tricky puncture on my trailer tire, one that was right on a seam in the tube. A few stops were made this week to fix the bugger.
Movies watched in a movie theater: 1 !!! First of the trip!!! Charlie Wilson´s War–very good.
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