20 July
We decided to go ahead and fly to Cartagena. Sandra's ship app tracker, shows the transport ship in Limon Costa Rica, but Norm told us that the ship was having trouble getting pierside in Panama to load. We don't know what the true story is, but Norm said it was OK for us to go to Colombia.
We had the choice of either an early morning flight or a late flight, that was non-stop. Otherwise we'd have to fly through Bogota. This would have just been frustrating to me, because we couldn't see any relatives, so we opted for the early flight. We left the hotel at 5 am and rode a half empty plane for 49 minutes from Panama City to Cartagena. It was an uneventful flight.
We got lucky and our hotel rooms were ready, so we were allowed to check-in despite only being 9am. Once we got our stuff situated in the room, I asked the hotel staff where to get a data plan on Sunday. We were told the only place was at the Mall, so off we went. We got there before 10 and found out that a lot of stores didn't open until 10:30. First stop was bookstore, where we bought a Lonely Planet guide to Colombia. We were the first two people in the Claro store and two hours later Sandra and I walked out with service. It gets complicated translating what we want and then having problems getting two global phones work on the local network. Roger claims to have read most of the LP Guide while Sandra and I were in Claro. Next stop was lunch, due to our early morning departure. Food court food is the same as in the US, just different names of fast food places.
At the airport in Panama City, I bought an iPad card reader. (Apple has figured out that folks want card readers and USB ports.) So now I have to figure out how to get pictures off my card and posted to the blog. So far to me it's not intuitive. Hopefully this will get updated with a picture soon.
We decided to go ahead and fly to Cartagena. Sandra's ship app tracker, shows the transport ship in Limon Costa Rica, but Norm told us that the ship was having trouble getting pierside in Panama to load. We don't know what the true story is, but Norm said it was OK for us to go to Colombia.
We had the choice of either an early morning flight or a late flight, that was non-stop. Otherwise we'd have to fly through Bogota. This would have just been frustrating to me, because we couldn't see any relatives, so we opted for the early flight. We left the hotel at 5 am and rode a half empty plane for 49 minutes from Panama City to Cartagena. It was an uneventful flight.
We got lucky and our hotel rooms were ready, so we were allowed to check-in despite only being 9am. Once we got our stuff situated in the room, I asked the hotel staff where to get a data plan on Sunday. We were told the only place was at the Mall, so off we went. We got there before 10 and found out that a lot of stores didn't open until 10:30. First stop was bookstore, where we bought a Lonely Planet guide to Colombia. We were the first two people in the Claro store and two hours later Sandra and I walked out with service. It gets complicated translating what we want and then having problems getting two global phones work on the local network. Roger claims to have read most of the LP Guide while Sandra and I were in Claro. Next stop was lunch, due to our early morning departure. Food court food is the same as in the US, just different names of fast food places.
At the airport in Panama City, I bought an iPad card reader. (Apple has figured out that folks want card readers and USB ports.) So now I have to figure out how to get pictures off my card and posted to the blog. So far to me it's not intuitive. Hopefully this will get updated with a picture soon.
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