It’s our last full day here in Minca. Naomi was DETERMINED to go for another walk up to the little waterfall today. But it ended up being another lazy morning at the apartment. As I’ve done here every morning, I made a cup of tea for Naomi and a delicious coffee for myself. We showered. We read some more Trump news. Other than that, it was another beautiful day in the jungle.
Naomi packed her artist tools, her swimsuit, and a towel, and marched off to her waterfall. I stayed home and wasted more time on the computer. Just before 1 o’clock she texts me; getting hungry, wait for me, let’s go get something to eat.
Before we could go to the restaurant I had to make a stop at the ‘ATM’. It’s not an ATM — the guy in the little desk behind the glass asks me how much money I want. Then he punches the amount plus 6% into the portable card reader, I put my password in and OK it, and voila! he doles out the bills. It’s like I’ve ‘bought’ something with my card, but the thing I bought is Colombian pesos. (300,000 plus his cut).
By now it’s around 2:00 o’clock. We’re off to what is now our favourite diner here in Minca — the Mexican restaurant. I guess the power is out, because there’s a very noisy generator sitting in the driveway. And when it runs out of fuel, the TV playing loud Colombian ‘tex-mex’ tunes shuts off. A young man hops on his motorcycle and soon returns with a big fruit juice bottle of gasoline. Back in business. We order a big plate of nachos and a couple of beers. Delicious and filling! And as it turns out, that’ll be the only meal we’ll eat today.
It’s not as hot as it’s been most days. We wander back to our apartment. Along the way we stop a couple of taxis that are waiting in front of the big church on the Main Street and ask the drivers for a price to transport us back to Santa Marta and to our next Airbnb. We want to make sure we have enough cash for the trip tomorrow.
Once we’re back at the apartment Naomi packs her bags so she’ll be all ready to go tomorrow at noon — she’s planning to visit the waterfall one more time in the morning before we leave. When she’s packed, she takes her pencil crayons and heads upstairs to do a bit of art. After a while I join her upstairs. She opens the last of our beers and we have a little happy hour up there. By 6:30 it’s dark outside.
We continued watching the ‘Severance‘ series. After 3 episodes we’ve had enough. Naomi picks up her Sudoku book and I start typing this up on her blog. Hope she’s got some good pictures to add.