I'm waking up everyday feeling that I'm lucky. Blissful.  That I'm new born, and who doesn't like when they were born ?  I have a constant rush of luck in me. That's giving me tons of energy so I never stop smiling and I won't.  Doing what I love the most. Seeing the beautifulest ways of peoples, cultures and countries. There is no words for it " a picture is more than a thousand words " but " memories is inexpressible ". I can't even describe how happy I'm and how happy Im planing to stay.  I'm living in my biggest dream, the dream I always wish to come true to complete myself. And I'm doing it. But also, I realized that I can never have enough of this. There is always something new. Something to explore, someone to met and someone to love.  Sounds foolish in a way but I love my life and couldn't done it better then I'm doing it. I know that my grandma would love to hear everything I'm up to and we will giggle together when I tell her. She will always keep me smiling. I love you. He loved her so but she was already gone long ago,  he really wanted her to stay  but she could wait to get away.  Nu viskar jag de orden,  De vackraste jag vet,  Du var mitt allt på jorden, Mitt allt i evighet.

San Agustin is a tiny and boring town. It's nothing really to do there except the archeological park and surroundings.  I did really enjoy to see all those different old stone figures thats made to guard the graves. They usually have something in there hand, that archeology's things its weapons. The biggest one is 7m high and massive. The bigger ones has a weight of a couple of tons. Big bustards.  Spend first half day walking in the park seeing 135 different statues. Interesting but for me, that was enough.. The other half of the day we spend on horseback, going up on the hills looking at more statues, some painted in black, white, red and yellow. Exiting to see painted ones after 140 non-painted. The best was to be on the horse. Special when my horse loved to gallop. Awesome views overlooking the valley too. Couldn't have a better day.  We were supposed to leave the next day but got stuck in the mudd for almost 4 hours. We were all muddlooking figures after that and the dirt road to Popayan over the mountains takes a day of driving and its not safe to get stuck overthere so we it turned out to have a full day in San Augustin. Not to fascinated.  So, here we are heading for Quito, Ecuador and our last destination together. Some is going home and some will keep traveling. I'm gonna stay on the truck to Lima, Peru. And then going south and all by myself. I feel more than ready to do something by myself rigth now. It's about time. Even thoue I'm gonna miss all of them.  - Newton Faulkner - Lipstick jungle. 

Bogota is home for eight million peoples but still a sweet place to be.  Surprisingly clean and mordant. Stayed in a brand new hostel in the tourist area named La Candelaria which is south.  Went up the cable car looking over the views of Bogota, strolled around on the streets and other than that I spend my time with Botten. I was crazy happy to see him again and hopefully it wont take long until next time. When I met him I realized how important friends is and how many lovely friends i still have back home. Some I haven't spoke to in ages, some every now and then. But I hope and have the feeling that we get back together one day. The day I feel like going back home, that's gonna take a while, where home is I don't know. Of course I miss friends and family but not home' home. Could be because I've been fucking around as you say it or in a nicer way moving around. I don't feel like I belong to a particular place and right now I'm very happy not to. I love what I do, what I see and people I meet. Anyway, Me and Botten had a delicious Thai dinner at Zona T, lunch at the old part of Bogota with nice old buildings and cobblestone streets. Touristic and loads of fancy and expensive restaurants. We even went to the movies with Ben and Paul seeing the latest Fast and Furious. I thought it was good entertainment special when it's in Rio de Janeiro where I've just been ! I would love to have more time in Bogota not just celebrating Bottens birthday. To see museums and so on but you can't get everything.  Almost forgot, Botten even took me to one of his friends birthday party. It's always a pleasure to met locals.  From bogota we went straight out to the desert. Looked like a small grand canyon around us with cactus everywhere. They had a observation center watching stars but at night was overcast so there was nothing to see. Bugger ! Just got to San Agustin, where we gonna see some crazy millions years old architecture rock formations, almost like Easter island. Hoping to get around by horse..  - I like it, I like it a lot.

After all our diving Me, Paul and Toyha left for Tayrona national park. Took us a out an hour to get to the main entrance of the park, where we started to walk through the jungle, climbing up and down on rocks crossing empty beaches and finally we got to Cabo de Juan. the last beach.  The once in the beginning has a really strong current so you can't swim over there, but the last one is worth walking for. A lovely beach, a broad one which I prefer and the area around with mountains covered in rainforest, big rocks and clear water. As close to paradise you can get.  Sleeping in hammocks made it all better too. I love hammock sleeping. Can't tell why but it's just something different and I found it cozy. Because of the truck we had to leave the next day to catch them in Medellin. Missed Cartagena that should be a lovely place to visit but for Colombia, I'll be back for sure. Colombia is the best country I've been to, the people, nature, everything just hit me hard straight to my heart. I love it ! Catch s flight to Medellin, late as always so got there at late afternoon where we found a nice Thai restaurant with good food and a bottle of red wine later we got to the hostel meeting the others and head of to expensive hard rock cafe. I would say, always good food and drinks and funky but to fucking expensive. Medellin surprised me being that mordant as it is. A huge different compare to all the other big city's we been to. I like it, I like it a lot. Spend almost a day on the truck heading to Tamesis, a small town south, famous for the orange and coffee farms. Paul, Matt and Me spend the evening drinking beers with locals we met. Hardly no English and no Spanish for us but we worked it out as usual. Next day we drove for an hour to another of those small towns surrounded by mountains covered in green. We got some horses and went horse riding up the montains going too a coffee farm. Once there we got boots and a stick and where taking around the farm watching the differnent coffee plants and learned all the process. He also had cardamom so we got to taste it straight from the seeds. Delicious ! Had a tasty lunch, a broth with chicken, beef, big non sweet bananas, potatoes and advocate. Yummiii Colombian food. After horse riding back, we were pretty exhausted. In the morning at the next day Me, Paul, Matt and Sunny went tubing. A bit more rough than Laos. We got life jackets and helmets for the ride and did 8km of tubing down the crazy rocky river. Man, we all got some scars and bruises every where but worth it. I was laughing as much so I couldn't even paddle.. And after one night of bush camp we are soon arriving in bogota and I'm so looking forward to met the best Christian Botten again. Yey. - I don't waste any precious time. 

Colombia is a favorite all ready as everything else I've seen in South America. Arrived in Santa Marta and from there we made our way to Taganga a small beach town. Started my advanced diving course, it was about time, and I'm done. Did three days of diving, Deep dive on 30 meters, aswering questions, playing with the yolk and guessing fruits. Sounds strange to guess what kinds of fruit chopper ( instructor ) was bringing down with him but you loose your colors under water. Not all of course, red, orange are the most common. So a tomato for me turned out to look like a kind of peach. Hum. Navigation dive, you get a compass and have to swim in a square. Easy going. Photograph dive, I was taught to take pictures under water depending on ligth, angle and fishes. Interesting. I went to my old world, forgetting everything doing what I was doing. That could be my future occupation, a under water photographer. Hell yeah. Buoyancy was just a bit more advanced than the open water course. Nothing really special. Night dive, my first, was grande loco, going descend without seeing anything else than pitch black and the light from the other divers. Was even more special because of the strong current we turned out to get. All the fishes gets a brighter color when watching them with a torch. They are sleeping, hunting and just very satisfying to watch. That's the five dives included in my course. I took a wreck dive as an extra one. Going down to 26 meters swimming around a twelve meters drug smuggling boat that's been there for 20 years. We were able to swim inside checking there kitchen and some other opened doors. Even better than my Bali wreck dive. Now I'm a advanced diver, let's see where it takes me. I'm gonna keep enjoying my hammock locking over the beautiful bay of Taganga with a fresh mango juice in my hand. Hey Mate, you got to love life. - You have to die a few times before you could live.

Did a day trip to see some small islands on the north-east ( Caribbean ) coast to Venezuela. Crystal clear water and empty beaches. Just what i needed. Snorkeling and chilling. There's a lot of rubbish floating around thou so hoping that Colombia is gonna offer me something better.  With the mountains in my back I'm leaving the beautiful highs and cold climate around Merida, south Venezuela, for this time but for sure I'd love to come back. First nigth up here gave us 11 degrees, a huge change for being in warmer climates for six month now. I wasn't really prepared for it, but I cant call myself Viking not enjoying it. First day me, Paul and sunny went canyoning. Drove up the mountains west of Merida, walked along side of the hills to get to our start point. Wetsuits, helmets and repelling gear on and we went down throu the water, climbing over rocks, sliding down I'm small waterfalls. There was four big waterfalls, highest was 35 meters. So happy that I'm not scared of hights anymore, thanks to my travelling. Kind of heavy being in a big waterfall trying get your ass down but enjoyable. Definitely rock climbing next !  Exhausted with soar legs and some blue spots here and there we were all fine and satisfied in the end of the day. Yesterday me, Sunny and Matt walked 3km up hill on 4000 m. Man, altitude is heavy. And even worse being a bit hangover. Yeah, I now it's all my own fallt.  We spend 2 hours chilling out in the hot spring, haveing an amazing view over the mountains around us. Georgeus.  We were supposed to go horse riding close by but there was no horses available so we walk around and our guide which was the best ever bought us one bottle of rum and a coce. Funny enough we found ourself very thirsty finishing the hole bottle in 20 min for the three of us. So, he bought us another one and joined us. Got back to town and kept going, being pissed since three in the afternoon. I had a two hour sleep and Got myself ready to leave at 06.30 this morning and here i am, still fine.. Our guide said to us "you are not normal tourist, you are funny". Never happened that he's been wasted with some tour group before. Found him passed out in Matt's bed this morning.  The views around here is, I don't know, I can't even explain how amazing everything here is. From the beaches in Rio de Janeiro up the Brazilian coast. Seeing national parks and cruising on the amazon. Seeing rainforest, animals and waterfalls in The Guyanas arriving to the highs of Venezuela. I feel like I'm on clouds enjoying every second and every minute of my life. I really liked the cooler climate over here. Think I been missing it and think I prefer a country with seasons. Loving this out of my nipples. South America, you have my heart already and I haven't seen half of it. Colombia, I'm all yours..  - John ME - Run.