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Christmas Lights and Travel Bloggers

Like me, my friend Brock’s trip around the world came to an end in Medellin, Colombia.

It was December 2010, and I was there to welcome him with tripe soup at Mondongo’s. Michael, the blogger from Go See Write, was also there.

In the video, he then visits Pablo Escobar’s grave, eats a massive slice of pizza, checks out the rooftop view from the International House, and then hops on the chiva party bus from hell with me and a bunch of other bloggers to see the Christmas lights.

The one that left me behind at our very first stop!

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Dave

Dave is the Founder of Medellin Living and author of the Medellin Travel Guide ebook. Connect with him via Twitter @rtwdave

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  • So how did you get lost? What happened? too many party buses to keep track of?
    I am the last person to correct somebody's Spanish but, I cringed with the way he pronounced Medellin, him not realizing the ending is sounded out "jean".....

    • I didn't get lost. Our first stop were the lights along the Medellin River. I got out with my date, and specifically asked the driver how long we were here for. He said about 20 minutes, at the least, it might've been 30, I can't recall.

      Either way, we walked away to look at the lights, we were gone no more than 15 minutes when we began walking back, and I noticed all these messages from friends on my phone asking me where I was. We walked back to the place where the bus was parked, but it'd already left without us.

      You can read the full story here.

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