Dispatch from the Colombian coast

So, yes, I am on the Carribbean coast of Colombia right now and it is hot and sticky, but we finally found an internet cafe with good fans and a place to write you all since I´ve heard you´ve been worried.

At the Ecuadorian-Colombian border, I went to get my exit stamp and the officials say to me, ¨Um, you didn´t enter Ecuador¨ What??? Apparently, even though I had the entry stamp in my passport it was never entered into the national computer system, so officially I didnt exist in Ecuador. This caused a pile of problems because since I never officially entered, I couldnt legally leave. But I couldnt stay in Ecuador either because of the aforementioned 6 month limitation thing. So it was illegal for me to stay and illegal for me to leave. I asked them over and over again what to do and they just shrugged their shoulders and motioned for the people in the line behind me to approach. Ecuadorian officials are incompetent beepity beep beeps (CENSORED).

I was on the point of tears and our only thoughts were to go to Quito and try to get me legalized. So finally we got a number for the Quito airport and a police woman there said that she would legalize me the next day but that I should go ahead and leave the country and not take the 7 hour bus back to Quito. So I went and told the officials that. But no one would give me a legal exit because everyone wanted to pass me off on to someone else. So we called the police in Quito again. And they said that the border control could call them. We told the border patrol to call the Quito police but they refused to. Why? Because they were simply lazy pigs that didnt want to get off their fat butts and call. So we called Quito again, and the police there called a corporal and the corporal called the border patrol, and we saw them get the orders to give me the exit stamp but they still wouldnt. Then we demanded the exit several times, and finally, 7 hours in to this ordeal, I left Ecuador, hopefully legally.

We walked across the bridge to Colombia to get our entry stamps and a line was forming. Ten minutes before the electricity went out. So there was no computers to do the entry procedures. After hours of waiting, they decided to take our names nationalities and passport numbers on little slips of paper, supposedly to be entered in the computers whenever the electricity came. So we will see when we try to leave Colombia. Maybe there will be no record of me here either.

We travelled first to Cali and later to Medellin. The buses are incredibly expensive and very different from Ecuador. They say that in Ecuador the buses are so cheap because they have so much gas in the country. Here, on the other hand, gas is more expensive and transportation is killing us. We travel by bus at night to not pay for hotels, and we have finally arrive in Santa Marta on the coast.

Well, that is the very fast summary of our Colombian adventures, but we are already about to go to Venezuela, perhaps even tomorrow, I will let you know how I am doing.