to bogatar. they sat us down in their office and they re just all ears. so, we need to go through all the details of your trip. they want to know everything. all the details you can remember. i was starting to feel burned out. i want to know everything about your guide. they wanted to know about victor. where did you meet him? questions about where we met him, what he had done in certain situations. is he okay? you haven t heard? it was then we got the full story about what had happened after victor left with the paramilitaries. they got victor to lead them back into panama, and when they got to paya, there was kind of a celebration under way. for whatever reason, they didn t like the cooperation they were getting. the chief was killed by the
there was no discussion. they were going back to paya, end of story. in moments they were gone and robert s gear and our food and everything was just on the trail. mark, are you okay? now it was victor and meg and robert and myself. before we could talk about what we really wanted to do and what our plan was, two of the men that had passed us earlier in the day showed up. one of them was bleeding, and they were completely terrified. apparently they had been cutting bamboo and people had just started shooting at them. that s all they could say. then one of them sort of showed where the third man had been shot, that they killed him. and they continued back to paya where our guides had just run off to. i was trying to delay panic, you
we re uninvited. we re in the darien. we ve left the police outpost and all we really have is victor. all i could think was, stay with victor. stay with victor. if anyone is going to sort this out, victor is going to sort it out. victor kept his calm and he walked directly to the chief s home. obviously, he wanted to hear from us what we were doing there and what we were planning. victor negotiated with the tr e tribe. [ foreign language ] the next day, victor negotiated guides for us. the plan was for the guides to take us as far as paya, which
walked by it. we camped at night and expected to be in colombia the following day. the next morning when we woke up, we had breakfast. and we continued. we knew that we were probably going to cross into colombia that day. right around noon, we decided to stop for lunch. while we re eating, three men who we knew from paya passed us. they were headed to the same village and they were moving quite quickly. they had heavy bags, but they were moving much faster than we were. exchanged pleasantries and they were off. probably wouldn t see them until we got there. so after lunch we grabbed our stuff and got back under way.
incursion into panama. our guides were from paya. there had been people killed. i mean, everything kind of fell away. the room started spinning. i just felt suddenly really horrible. i could just feel a fever coming on and they asked me are you okay? i m like, no. i need to lie down. right this way. they sat me down and this nurse came in. she just said, what happened to you? i just completely lost it. i just cried. it felt really good. i couldn t explain to her what had happened to me, because i didn t know what had happened to me. but i had made it to where i wanted to be. i was back in colombia. that in itself was kind of overwhelming. clearly, i just had this day in