1358 Into Colombia (through the jungle); 
    legally, we had been assured by Colombian officials in Panama, very >>>>>illegally, we are told by Migration, with attendant proceedings.
1358 Before Panama was chipped off Colombia there would have been no problem.
1370 Similarities with Mexico.
1373 Days of suspense, awaiting decision from Bogotá.
1374 Cartagena de las Indias: impressive Spanish fortifications.
1377 Banknotes labeled as "Gold Payable to the Bearer" but worth only the >>>>>paper>and ink.
1377 In the meantime, getting the vehicle through customs; maddening - how >>>>>long? : two full days.
1378 Decision from Bogotá: report to Migration Headquarters in>Bogotá.
1379 Deeper into the Viceroyalty of New Granada, or the United States of >>>>>Colombia.
1380 Museum of Pre-Columbian Goldsmithing (Santa Marta).
1381 Pre-Columbian printing rollers.
1383 Thousands of ants on their freeway (with rush- and quiet hours).
1386 Warning: nights, only near police stations.
1387 Warning: even in daytime, do not stay alongside road.
1387 The pigmies of Maracas.
1388 Each road-junction, a guessing game.
1389 The Caribes and the Taironas.
1390 Police checkpoints, part of life.
1391 The first 100 meters up the Andes.
1392 Unsolicited warning: thieves.
1392 Long-distance telephone call:
     special office, large security-deposit, armed guard at the door.
1394 Two heroines.
1395 Pavement, treacherous as no dirt road ever.
1396 Trucks with major repairs, in the middle of the road.
1397 The beatitude of cool weather, rediscovered.
1397 First classical music in eons.
1398 Banana-finger and cacao-pod, 135 million years old.
1399 More unsolicited warnings; is it really so bad?
1399 Fertility and non-polluting husbandry 2,500 meters in the Andes.
1401 A church for 10,000 persons carved in a salt-mine.
1403 Backwardness is not a lack of technology, it is a lack of brains, of >>>>>diligence.
1404 Two postal services, with separate offices:
     one for surface mail, one for air mail ...
1405 Dilemma: police station, safe with regard to thieves, unsafe with regard >>>>>to guerrilleros.
1405 Relief: illegal aliens become legal aliens in Colombia.
1406 A fortress to behold, outside and inside: the Vespuccian consulate >>>>>in>Bogotá.
1406 New, serious worry: the Vespuccian bureaucracy fails to deliver to us an >>>>>important document through the consulate in Bogotá, as agreed upon.
1410 Before Bogotá, Bacatá of the Chibchas.
1411 Violence, violence.
1412 Astounding classical music:
     three radio stations, and thoroughly scholarly programming.
1414 The world of pre-Columbian goldsmithing, then and now.
1418 Claims that float around: 
     Colombian toponym "Cundinamarca" stems from norse "Denmark" (Dinamarca).
1421 Aping foreign grandees, especially their absurdities.
1422 How about honey from coffee flowers.
1423 Astounding traffic: rabid anarchy.
1423 New martyrdom in the search for streets.
1426 Adventures in taxi-riding.
1430 Eight hours at less than 15 kilometers per hour.
1431 Amazing compact altitudinal layering of temperatures, plants, animals; in >>>>>the tropics.
1435 Emeralds, from mining to faking, and more.
1443 Fertile Andean grandeur.
1443 Rancho-size industrial vertical integration.
1444 Colombian coffee in genuine Colombian rancho-style brewing.
1446 Criminal stratagems.
1447 The least superficial interview by a newspaper so far.
1456 Goldsmithing motives also as petroglyphic motives.
1457 More streets changing from "two ways" to "wrong way" without warning.
1459 San Agustín, archaeological site.
1461 Fuente de Lavapatas, archaeological site.
1463 Cerro de la Pelota, archaeological site.
1466 Alto de las Piedras, archaeological site.
1467 Alto de los Idolos, archaeological site.
1469 When two vehicles meet on a one-lane mountain-road with no room to >>>>>side-step.
1470 Tierradentro, archaeological site.
1472 The generosity of giving to the paraborigines part of all the lands >>>>>stolen from them in the first place.
1475 With a professional tomb-robber.
1480 Those mountain-side bucolic ranchos.
1481 First gear, second gear, first gear, ad infinitum.
1482 Underdevelopment (in brains).
1483 Irritations, too numerous to be listed.
1485 Men with skirts, ladies with men's hats.
1485 Grand total of Colombian crimes seen: zero.
1486 Colombian solution to the cocaine problem.
1488 Astounding soil-tilling almost as vertical as a tapestry.
1491 Entering Tahuantinsuyu, the empire of the Incas.