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The walk did take place this morning with the 4 regulars mainly because I did not sleep well, worrying about today, so it was a tad shorter than usual and we went back to bed for more rest.
I was up before 8am, planning to leave around 11am for Migracion in Pereira. I trimmed my beard and cut my hair to the nubs. I had more emails from Migracion and had sent them to Luz Dary to see if we needed to bring anything else. She didn't respond until around 11am that we were good to go, so we got away late at 11:30am. It is basically an hour to the outskirts and 45 minutes in the city to travel, with 2 toll booths.
I wanted the extra time to make a fast pit-stop at PriceSmart for a couple of things, and we ended up spending $182.40 USD with $1 = 4277 pesos today. We had bypassed the lunch counter because of the lineups and went after there again after we cleared the checkout. We ordered what we thought would be quick and they told us it would take 10 minutes. Well, we had to leave in 15 minutes!! So it took 5 minutes to get a refund and get another order that we wolfed down, putting us late.
Then Waze wanted to send me in circles around Migracion's office so I ignored it and found street parking 2 blocks away. Then the fun began again....
The guys in the office said that we needed some email from Migracion to enable us to get the travel document (good for a lousy 30 days) SalvoConducto which is necessary for the processing of the Visa.... I kept my cool and pleaded with them, and then Luz Dary sent me the email that we needed. I then had to email it to the guy's work email. When they printed the SalvoConducto and handed it to us, I think you could hear my relief for blocks....
And, once we get the Visa, we have to go to Pereira, or Cali, to get the new identity card, the cedula within 2 weeks. 14 months of this BS already and I already have very little hair left to pull out...
We stopped to pick up empanadas and fried potato patties for supper on the way into town. Too pooped to do anything else.
I hope you enjoy the pictures. That was the day’s excitement.
Al
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Lovely highway north to Cartago 
Coming back, looking at the Coastal Cordillera 
and again, through the sugar cane 
This is by BugaLaGrande 
Stopping for supper, nobody felt like cooking..
