i m here for tejo. it involves alcohol and explosives. colombian mario gallino, ex-pat will holland and their bandmates are to be my guides for this ancient and very traditional colombian sport. thanks, man. how do you play this game? i guess that s how it s done. what do you call this object? el tejo. el tejo. tejo. and hence the name. exactly. tejo. i should be good at this. i ve been throwing pots into the dish sink from across the room for years. you win more points if you
and removal of your old set. why wait for the new models? sleep train s year end clearance sale is on now! .guaranteed! your ticket to a better night s sleep bogota is the largest city in colombia and the economic heart of the country. about a fifth of the population lives here, many of them very well, but some not so well. it s a city with a marked
sorry. mm-mmm. now, do you cure this first in salt, or no! dry it? salt it? how? no. just fresh? yes. delicious. you would never get this off your menu. you ll have to keep it on your menu forever, right? forever. oh, the best part. mama didn t raise no fool. santiago de cali, or just cali, as people call it in these parts, is a city in the southwest of colombia known for its proximity to the pacific coast and its semi-tropical temperatures, but i m not really here for the climate.
cheers. i always find colombia encouraging. they face problems more extreme and seemingly more intractable than many of us can imagine. and yet, every time i come here, it gets better. don t get me wrong, problems, serious problems remain, which is particularly heartbreaking in a country so beautiful, so generous, so proud, so eager to love and be loved back. i come back to my own country from colombia, and i think, if they can fix that, if they can make things better, then surely, there s nothing we can t do.
luckily for us, it means that cheap gas is easy to come by in these parts. there are no stations as such. you just keep an eye out for the cans. most of this gasoline is from venezuela. it s extremely cheap. i think it s like 50 cents a gallon. 50 cents. the government subsidizes a lot of it. they re able to buy venezuelan gasoline and sell legally venezuelan gasoline in colombia. wow. having taken on as much gas as can be mouth siphoned in one sitting, we re off again. let me set the scene. it s hot out here, desert hot, and we plan to ride three hours along the coast to our lunch spot, and i ate salty goat innards for breakfast, and i refuse to wear a helmet or sunblock. we avoid wild donkeys and goats,