The Schwiet Life

Fueled by coffee, I ran back from La Finca to the center of town and piled onto a Jeep Willie with 11 others to go to La Valle de Cocora. The...

I joined some other travelers that evening around a campfire sharing stories, eating S’mores and drinking hot tea, Abigail’s favorite. I spent my first night ‘camping’ in my hammock on the...

The next morning I caught a bus to the city of Buga, pilgrimage site of the crucifix that miraculously floated up to an indegenios woman washing clothes in the river and...

I arrived at El Viajero Hostel in Cali at 8pm then after settling down joined my international mix of roomies (from Louisiana, New Zealand, Korea and The Netherlands in going out...