Author: Derrick Cromer
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TD202 – Oct 9, 2022 – AMJDancer – Beat It, Thriller & Billie Jean
AMJDancer is a spot-on Michael Jackson impersonator who does street dance performances around the Carrera 70 entertainment district in Medellin. This is the fourth time I have bumped into him and the longest video I have so far. This starts part way into Beat It and has the entirety of Thriller and Billie Jean. I…
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TD189 – Sep 26, 2022 – Michael Jackson de Medellín – Thriller & Billie Jean
I took the day off from working on the website, so here’s Billie Jean and Thriller 30 minutes ago. -D
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TD188 – Sep 25, 2022 – Medellín First Day
[7:58 AM, 9/25/2022] Derrick 🇨🇴 🇵🇦🇳🇮🇨🇷: Buenos dias Diabla. About 30 minutes ago we parked at a truck stop near La Boleta for food and rest. I only got orange juice. The food smells really good, but the line is long and I don’t feel like eating. There are a lot of grackles here. I…
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TD187 – Sep 24, 2022 – Welcome to CartasADiabla.com
Whilst walking Montería streets this morning during golden hour, I decided to make a post about the website. How meta. Time for more exposition. You may be asking yourself, what in the hell does Cartas A Diabla mean? Roughly translated from Spanish, it means Letters to the Devilwoman. I considered several similar names that are…
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TD182.63 – Sep 19, 2022 – Half a year of travel in Latin America
If you don’t like films with a lot of exposition, skip down two paragraphs. MATH ALERT! An earth year is approximately 365.26 earth days. 365.26/2 = 182.63. My journey from Jacksonville, Florida to San Jose, Costa Rica started on March 21, 2022. Googling “March 21 plus 182 days” indicates that September 19 marks my first…
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Two lovers sat on a park bench with their bodies touching each other….
Repeat Chorus 200 times:One, two, three, fourOne, two, three, four, five, sixOne, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight One, two, three, fourOne, two, three, four, five, sixOne, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight Two lovers sat on a park bench with their bodies touching each other, holding hands in the moonlight. There was…
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TD179 – Sep 17, 2022 – 🇨🇴 Saint Valentine’s Day 🥰
Sending big love to all the Colombians I’ve met, to the ones I’ve yet to meet and even to the ones I will never meet. To my friends, the Wayuus in Cabo de la Vela, I send the deepest love. I will see you guys again after Peru. I send mammoth love to Barranquilla, Santa…
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TD 176 – Sep 13, 2022 – Cartagena to Tolú
Parental warning: explicit lyrics, rated PG-13 [7:17 PM, 9/13/2022] Derrick 🇨🇴 🇵🇦🇳🇮🇨🇷: It’s been another difficult travel day. I want to preface this story by saying that I love travel. It makes me feel alive like nothing else. It can be trying on your patience when buses are consistently late and it feels like everyone…
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TD138 – Aug 6, 2022 – Shaman Tambo, Kambo 2, Yagé 3 or 33
Today I am taking kambo, a poisonous frog secretion used in Amazonian traditional medicine for purging. This is in preparation for the ayahuasca ceremony at 11 pm tonight. I have been feeling lethargic since the ayahuasca ceremony a month ago, so I’m hoping the kambo, named after a species of frog, will reboot my system. I…
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TD102 -Jul 1, 2022 – First Ayahuasca Ceremony
On July 1st and 2nd, 2022 I attended my first two ayahuasca ceremonies with a shaman. I met Daniela, a nice Venezuelan young lady who drove us to the ceremony. We left Panama City at 3pm from Albrook mall bus terminal. She also picked up Antonio, a 24 year old Guatemalan man who went to his first ceremony the month…
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TD 62 – May 22, 2022 – Costa Rica to Panama Border Crossing
The border crossing was lively. I saw a Panamanian pigeon fight, a plastic chair I was sitting in spontaneously disintegrated in front of a bunch of people but I was smooth in my recovery and the border patrol police tore our bus apart for 90 minutes looking for drugs. So we are running super late…
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TD14 – April 4, 2022 – New York Karen
OhMG aye dios mio, I am watching the craziest incident right now. There is an old gringo woman from a northern state, judging by her accent, complaining about the air conditioner not working in the womens’ dorm even though it’s not hot enough for air conditioning. So she wants a private room. In US internet…
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TD5 – Mar 26, 2022 – La Sabana Park San Jose 🇨🇷
I just got back from Parque Sabana, the biggest park in downtown San Jose. It’s not that beautiful right now. The pond has no water because Costa Rica is at the end of dry season, the plants looks pitiful, nothing is green, the outdoor artworks have faded paint and there are mostly sports fields. There is…
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TD1 – Mar 22, 2022 – First day in San Jose
Adam and Abigail dropped me off at Jacksonville airport (Jax) Monday night after my last meal in America which was Thai food. Jax was the first airport I had ever flown from back in 1996 on the way to London. I had a 6:00 a.m. flight. It wasn’t worth the hassle or cost of staying…
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