@ Andy – I realize, more and more every day, that my earlier writing is biased by the area I live in. Chapinero south of Lourdes near Carrera 13 is not a fair representative of the entire city. Then again, I love it around here and wouldn’t live anywhere else!

Great post, keep up the good work. Thanks for including the links to the articles.

Glad to see that not all your posts are related to the seedy aspects of life in Colombia.
Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate your candor in talking about all the different aspects (whether good or bad), but
it’s just nice to hear a positive post from you. Kind of have gotten used to only reading about the bad stuff, since I started reading
your blog.

Hey, you know how you seem to always stumble into bad situations where you’ll feel uncomfortable by the “zombie basureros”.
You know, it is possible to avoid the parts of Bogota where the “basurero” concentration is the highest.
That’s what I do, and for the most part it is possible to avoid them….except for the ones that sneak up on you.
I mean, likewise I’m not gonna go walk around the worst part of the Harlem projects in NYC.

Anyways, not crticizing, but although the seedy posts are interesting, I wanna hear more about the positive from you as well…so keep it up.

Finally, I found Dennis Demori’s comment above about about you working for the tourism board funny…….guess he hasn’t read the rest of your posts.
But, I do sort of agree with him that this post does merit business magazine / travel magazine / “tourism board” positiveness.

Andy

Ok, that’s it. I finished all of your posts this week-end. Great read, start to finish. It’s neat to see your experiences change and your writing along with it.

I don’t think this is book material, I think you should write this as a screen play.

I’ll be in Bogota in March on business, maybe I’ll see you around.

Again, thanks for the read.

Tony Z.

I reckon that at this stage you know more of my own country than me… hehehe. Probably, I’ll hire you as tourist guide next time I visit Bta.

Keep writing… PAOLA.

Anders

This is definitely one of your best posts. I found it really informative — nice overview of what’s going on in Colombia; it helped me put a lot of things in context that had been scattered in my head.

As I was reading this I was thinking you should work for their tourism board. You do a great job of selling the country’s positive aspects.

@DennisDemori

I remember one of my Colombian friends in the 90s saying that the biggest advantage the US has with Colombia is Colombian’s lack of planning ability. The flip side was that Colombians are amazingly responsive and creative dealing with things that come up. Have you seen this?

Hopefully the good times continue and some of the benefits accrue to you.

Wishing you all the best,

Andy