Shift in the Wind

Well, I had a plan....
We were all set to load up the bike on the yacht tomorrow at 8am...But that was this morning!

But a phone call this evening and everything is different...
The captain of the yacht is new at this run from Panama to Colombia, and he was trying to drum up business by visiting all the hostels and having a chat with the front desk...
Unfortunately he did this at one place while a Colombian Immigration officer was standing in the hostel lobby, and well, they didnt like his story (The whole tourists on private yachts thing is not quite fully approved it seems)...
So anyway, now the captain and his yacht have to leave Colombia immediately without passengers.

On the bright side though, he could have sailed out of port and not returned our money, but he didnt. He stuck around for basically a whole day waiting for us to call and then he returned all our deposit money... So I gotta be grateful for that.

But, while we were getting our money back, we had a bit of a discussion and we figure we can meet the yacht a ways down the coast and load up there...
Its not clear quite what we are actually going to do because none of us are sure where there are docks or what condition the roads are in etc, but the current plan is to "give it a go" so to speak!

So, tomorrow morning I set out early with another motorbike rider to head down to the Caribbean coast and a town called Turbo. It should take us half a day to ride to where the road gets bad and turns to dirt... Likewise it should take the yacht about the same time to get there, so then we make a phone call and see if we press on to Turbo or get a launch to take the bikes off the beach at that point.
If its a no go there, then we either do the dirt road (half day?) or we take the long way round on good road (full day extra) to Turbo.
Not sure whats gonna actually happen, but Im done with hangin out in Cartegena so Im happy to be riding somewhere... even if Im not exactly sure where :))

Oh yeah, and this area where we're going may still have FARC activity (Colombias militant resistance movement that kidnaps people and holds them in remote jungle camps for ten years or more!).... hope I dont meet them :)))