-Good morning adventurers. -Good morning!
-We got up at 5 a.m. this morning. -Really good! -Yeah
I'm not quite awake. We're about to go through security and she was like got to do an intro don't we?
It's like oh, yeah, we're making a video today
Oopsie daisy
We are headed to Medellin today, it is our final day here in Cancun
We're very excited new country, new continent.
Colombia - in case you don't know.
Oh, yes.
But it's gonna be cool. We are still waking up
We're about to head through security. And then I guess we'll see you on the other side.
Yeah let's do it.
Actually, I also wanted to mention that uh, we had to have onward travel booked they checked it up at the gate over there
We actually did it ahead of time
Yes, if you guys have been following the videos
We've had some trouble with sometimes they say you need onward travel booked in order to enter the country
Sometimes they say that they don't check
but anyway, so we just want to let you guys know that you better have it when you are heading to Colombia
Yes but no visa at least for Americans going to Colombia. So at least we didn't mess that up.
Yes. Alright
See you on the other side.
Well, we entered the gate, managed to get something to eat but I'm not feeling that good you guys just too early
I think it's always really difficult when you get up this early and you we're trying to figure out what to eat
It's not like you want to eat a salad
But I don't think a bacon egg breakfast sandwich is the best thing either which is what I just ate so
Allison was smarter and she got something a little bit more green and lighter and on the healthy side.
Well healthy and it is good, yeah
Compared to what I had, it's looking pretty good
Ham and cheese and spinach
Hopefully I started to feel a little bit better but our plane should be boarding pretty soon we're gonna be off.
We've landed in Panama and that was super quick flight because we basically slept through the whole thing
We were out. It's bad. So tired.
But I don't know if we really mentioned it
But we're connecting here and then heading to Colombia ultimately so we have one more flight. And we'll be there
We landed, it was really easy
We came out of this gate and then we are leaving from this gate which never ever
Happened there like right next to the gate
Normally, we're like rushing through the airport, but we have a little over an hour to kill. So I think we're just gonna wander to the airport to see what it's like.
That we are and I have yet to get coffee cuz iIcan't drink coffee at 5 A.M.
But this girl it's the first thing she does
Uhm this only halfway gone. So technically I have coffee at 10:30 and 5:00 a.m
Well, I got some coffee, but it's not good
We went to the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf and I came over the last I went to one but I remember it being this bad
Poor guy
That was cold brew and everything just was it's not very good
I got starbucks with me in this morning, I'm sorry
Also, we have these little reusable cups that we've been using which have been amazing because we hate using all the plastic
you can't win them all but it feels good to not have one extra piece of plactic today
By the way, you could just pick these up on Amazon if you just search for like a bamboo-
to-go cup don't get these exact ones cuz they leak
But you can get a lot of nicer ones
All right, you played number two should be short and sweet and the..
Hopefully, it's not rainy like this when we land.
Yeah, we couldn't see anything when we landed we could hardly see the city
So we're in Panama right now, Panama City
And for some reason, I never really paid attention to how close it is to Medellin over here
Look at that gonna be like a one-hour flight to get just across the border there
We made it to Colombia super easy flight for much less than an hour, I think
Yeah, with a little bit of turbulence I think?
But the views coming in were some of the most incredible
I think we've seen from a flight.
It was so green and lush down there completely blew us away
Waterfalls and everything
I thought we were gonna be staying in the city mostly but
We might have to get out of the city
Definitely. But now we're going to head through immigration and we'll see you on the other side
-Good morning adventurers. -Good morning!
It is an amazing day here in Medellin.
-Can you believe this view from our balcony? -No. -This is insane.
It is so cool. So yesterday when we got here, it was super stormy and cloudy
So we we got little glimpses of it. But today the clouds are really high
So we're seeing in all of its glory and oh my goodness. It might be one of the prettiest cities we have ever seen
Yeah easily and seeing it from here is just insane because we're above most of the buildings in the city. It's crazy
We have a lot of work to do last night and today again
to play catch-up but I think we're gonna run out and grab some coffee because
Columbia is obviously known for coffee. So I imagine they have some very good cafes here. I actually found one
That might be the most famous cafe in all of Medellin and it's supposed to be super hipster sounds right up our alley
So I'm very excited to go.
Alright, let's head out!
Well, we're having a bit of a problem
Actually, the place that we're staying is in kind of a dead zone where no roads go directly to it
So you have to go this roundabout way to even get to the grocery store. That's just right over there
And we can't really walk it. So we're trying to do an uber and look at this route that it gave us
Can you believe this?
I don't even know what this means
So the guy's here he's been there for about 20 minutes and this is ultimately where he's trying to get to
So we're still trying to figure that out
This is our third uber that we've called
So, I don't know if it's in the cards might have to just get a proper taxi
So we got here and this is the cafe we're supposed to be going to but it is not open
They're doing a lot of construction work. I don't know if they're updating it?
It's called "Purgamina"? "Pilgrim", I'm sorry Pergamino.
It's supposed to be really good. I don't know, I'm hoping they're just doing renovations. It'll be back open soon
We saw another location with the same name a couple streets over but we're not sure if it's the same thing
So instead, I think we're gonna go across the street to a place called Cafe Velvet
Which seems to get pretty good reviews as well this whole area seems like it would have great coffee and food though
So I'm not too upset by it.
Sure, it's actually really cool. Do you know what it's called?
El Poblado
El Poblado, but you can see all this greenery that we're surrounded by there's a bunch of hip cafes and stuff and it's just really overgrown
jungle mixed with urban landscape. It's really cool vibe!
-So much shopping and art work it's very cool, very very cool. -So green!
We found a cafe. It's called Velvet
We ended up eating we were so hungry. We just kind of devoured it and it really wasn't nothing to write home about anyway.
No, it was fine.
At least I'm not hungry anymore.
Yeah, that's true
which is nothing crazy, the coffee though
is pretty good.
Well, I tried to order I've been trying to order frappes
But just like barely sweet and it ended up being super sweet
So I decided to give the cold brew a try and that was a winner
The cold brew here is amazing and it gave me this cream. That's just slightly sweet thick milk. It's really good
We're feeling like this day isn't going that well because I don't know we didn't really say but we tried six or seven times to
get a car at our apartment
Yeah, for over an hour
Yeah, and they just kept canceling and they couldn't find their way there. Uber was rounding him incorrectly
So we ended up having to walk down the road and get some guy and he was really angry
It just has been going that well, but we're gonna make up for it in our next adventure here, though
Yes, tomorrow's gonna be a much better day. We're gonna just have a chill day today and recoup and then tomorrow it's gonna be perfect
We had a wonderful time exploring the Poblado area. We'll definitely be more doing more that I think tomorrow
But we actually went and got a bunch of supplies because we are gonna grill here tonight since it is kind of like a work-in-night
And they have a grill right behind me
Hopefully, we don't burn this place down.
That'll be good.
Yeah, but we're not quite hungry yet
So we're gonna wait till nighttime to fire that thing up
Night has fallen and it is time to grill y'all we got it lit. That's the first step y'all, step one
We have some potatoes in there some little baby potatoes
We're starting those first cuz they need some time.
They need some TLC on there.
And then I think we can do some burgers and some veggies. I'm very excited. Brussels sprouts and zucchini
Oh my god. That's gonna be such a yummy dinner.
I mean you've already seen it. But look at this insane view
I've never seen anything like this
This giant door's here and I keep walking by and saying "Holy shit!"
I've been working out here all afternoon
and I feel like I have not gotten anything done cuz every two seconds I'm just like staring out or like
Texting people and being like "Look at this view, isn't it amazing?"
Yeah, pretty much the perfect grilling environment
And the weather here
Oh my gosh, Mexico where we just came from was so warm
It is low 70s and breezy as you can see my hair blowing in the wind
It's perfect and during the day it gets up almost to 80 but not quite so it's still very very nice
Our dinner is served and everything looks delicious turned out great.
I think we cooked it all well
I think?
We'll see. But we have some potatoes over here, four little zucchinis, and then some Brussels sprouts over there
They're all steaming and seem pretty soft
So I think it's gonna be pretty good and of course the burgers with some cheese on it.
All right, success!
My plate is loaded up y'all but the burger is what I'm most interested
to try
Mostly because we suck at grilling we have absolutely no idea what we're doing
So we always think we're going to either undercook the meat or overcook it horribly
It's good yeah,
Yeah, oh man, there's a lot of flavor in the burger that's really good
And the cheese is nice and settled a little mozzarella cheese. Yeah, pretty good and check this out
We got some hot sauce to travel with you guys. We always have hot sauce in our backpacks
So this one it's going to go with us until the TSA takes it away from us
All right. It's time to devour this and then probably
Watch a movie and go to bed, but we'll be back tomorrow
We have some fun plans, I think already and then we are going out to Guatape which is really close
It's about a two-hour ride from Medellin should be on the middle of
Kind of nowhere a really nice quaint small town
We have a very cool stay coming up.
-Maybe one of the coolest places we've ever stayed on our travels. -Super excited about it.
Very excited about it, but we'll have one more full day here in Medellin
We'll take you guys around show you the site. It should be pretty fun. All right, good night adventurers
We'll see you on the road.