confused. victor didn t know who they were. they claimed they were farc, but they were making up stories about shooting in the jungle. they hadn t killed us. that s good. but it was another story now. how were we going to get out of this? on their car insurance. any questions? -yeah. -how do you go to the bathroom? great. any insurance-related questions? -mm-hmm. -do you have a girlfriend? uh, i m actually focusing on my career right now, saving people nearly $600 when they switch, so. where s your belly button? [ sighs ] i ve got to start booking better gigs.
we re uninvited. we re in the darien. we ve left the police outpost. and all we really have is victor. all i can think, 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 they wanted to hear from us what we were doing there and what we were planning. victor negotiated with the tribe. i think we re okay. the next day, victor negotiated guides for us. the plan was for the guides to take us as far as paya, which was the last panamanian village.
he saw us pull in. hello. welcome. good morning. mark. i liked victor right off. he was really friendly. good morning, miss. hi. how is it going? i am single. older, earlier 50s. victor kind of took us on a tour. we walked through the village. he showed us his house. we told victor we were planning to cross the darien into colombia. and that didn t seem like too big an issue for him. he talked about his experience guiding in the past. and he claimed to have contact with the farc, which was another relief. that s one less of a reason to worry with a guy that has contacts with the farc. kind of won us over, you know. si, bien. leaving capati was phenomenal. it was happening. it was really happening. we had a young boy that was our
we got in the boat, and there we were, headed into the darien. i didn t think there would be any real severe consequences. anything that i was going get into, i felt that i could get out of. i think we all felt that way. it would take all day to travel three or four miles. but we were definitely on our way. robert had a gps. but the gps was tough in that part of the world. we tried to get our maps to gel with the gps. we couldn t get the map to coordinate. it became very clear that this type of journey was impossible without a guide. we went up river all day, and we arrived at a native village, capati. at that time we met victor.
he was too far away to hear what he was saying, but he was talking to the squad commander. eventually victor came back and the squad commander launched into this speech about the revolutionary armed forces of colombia, the farc. they were members of the farc. they were there to protect the people of colombia. and we listened. when he was done speaking, victor started speaking to me in english. this man, i don t know. he was trying to appear casual, but he was struggling. he was really trying to pick his words carefully. say it again? this man is no good, no good. he told me he didn t trust them and he didn t know them, that he was worried. at that point i was really