Penultimate Day! On a beautiful day, many were counting down to the final arrival in Cartagena. Our ride out of Medellin was busy but controllable, and everyone headed for the mountain roads again, basically to go up, then down again to the small coastal town of Monteria over 420 km. We expected the day to get very hot and sticky but it was reasonably ok compared to expectations.
This part of Colombia is magnificently green, given the high tropical rainfall, and the ride was also over recently renovated roads for the first two-thirds of the trip, so we had a great time zipping around the twisty corners. Later the road was to deteriorate a little with many bumps caused by geological movements.
It was over 220km to the lunch spot and I was glad to reach it for a small break, but just before we did, we came across a motorcycle accident which is always sobering. The rider was carrying a male pillion and they had run head on, into a car that was in the wrong lane and trying to overtake a truck. The rider was a young local man, with two broken arms, but apparently no life threatening injuries and JC talked to him to give him confidence that he was not going to die. The pillion had slid well down the hill and had no major injuries but appeared to have been knocked out for a few minutes but come around. The bike was completely totalled and the front of the car badly damaged giving some idea of the seriousness of the impact. As we stood there, the Bomberos (fire fighters) ambulance arrived and they took over.
We all slowed down a little! Then stopped for lunch followed by a more leisurely drive into Monteria and another GHL hotel with a pool and a Japanese restaurant called Miso. The restaurant was not flash, but we did have an enjoyable dinner with some sushi and soup.
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