While we've been gone Mike has been traveling like crazy. First he got to see his mission companion John Burnett who happened to be in Bogota for work! Then he went to a remote area of Colombia to help make sure it was safe for a US military medical exercise. He had to go 3 hours up river in a speed boat to get to this little town cooed Candelia de la mar. The "town" was completely built on stilts because of water. There is practically no electricity and the living conditionals are very poor. Every day the people throw their trash into the water below and just wait for the tides to take them back out. It's so crazy to see how varied Colombia is. You have this sprawling, international metropolis like Bogota, then you have a tiny place like Candelia de la Mar. It seems like a different country! Luckily Mike didn't have to stay overnight but it was certainly not your average day at the office!
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