So far, we've been quite lucky in Colombia. I was under the impression that this was a dangerous place run by drug cartels and you wouldn't be able to walk around at night. However, in the 4 weeks that I've been here, I haven't had a moment when I didn't feel safe. People here are really friendly.
However, (there is always a however) one of the guys finally met up with fate. As he was getting out of the taxi on his way home from the bar on Saturday night, he noticed that his wallet was missing from his front pocket and that the pocket was partially turned inside out. It had been stolen!
They called the police and the taxi driver went back to that bar. The taxi driver pointed to the police, a group of ruffians who had been standing outside of the bar all night. The police patted them down and guess what they found? The wallet! The taxi driver, returned the wallet to the hotel and it was recovered. We figured that it was a 1:1,000,000 chance that the wallet was going to be recovered and it looks like we beat the odds!
Anyways, I am going to continue carrying only one credit card and an expired driver's license as long as I am here just in case the same thing happens to me.
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