Snow Prepares for Major Surgery in another Country - Van Life Colombia
we're getting settled in at our camp and curt has found a toy i do not know if this is good or bad but he has found a slack line actually it might be a good place to learn because you're not far off the ground right there at the beginning and as you get better it goes down the hill and you get a little more off the ground so this place we're staying is not only a great spot for overlanders it's it's overlander friendly but it's a hostel and they also have glamping so out here they have these nice tents that are set up and they have glamping so you can see here somebody has set it up for a birthday yeah can i can i look can i see okay so they have it set up here for the birthday it is beautiful for a masashi yeah oh nice nice queen bed smells great in here it's very good very nice we got into this camp you know we had just drove the van through a giant city we were a little wore out but we've gotten some rest getting the kitties out for a walk always makes us happy especially in a cool place like this and nana is enjoying this if there is a leap of faith a step away from the comfort zone and be a little afraid to take a look around you how far can you see how far do you think you can run standing on your knees it's a beautiful world out there just don't pass on the dare it can be a bit frightening something you don't know you need a little enlightenment it'll make you grow it's a beautiful world out there so we figured out what the horses are here for there's a tour all these folks are staying here and there looks like they're going out on a sunset ride all right yes he wants to put it in kurt the little guy wants to put it in he wants to do it oh no okay gracias yeah all right look at this contraption guys kurt struggled last night with just a normal lighter but that's not how you do a fire here another campfire dinner more vegetables and chicken just tossed on the grill curd's shaking it up a little bit with an apple up there i'll have to see how that turns out on the grill but i think it'll be good what do you think kirti oh yeah so you're the fire you're the flare you're the song inside my head and i will what do you think so we got two of these things kurt's eating one now we'll have one for later what'd they cost kurt there was 5 000 pesos which is a little less than two dollars guys walking around with a big box of mangoes these and and avocados and avocados selling them there you go so the real stream so i have all these little strands of my teeth that's tasty good all right snow's going to give it a try she's a little more cautious than i was it is good but it tastes uh it is kind of pumpkiny tasting i would say more like butternut squash tasting in texture but sweeter like a fruit it's good nana want to smell it i am excited today i get to go out in the nature and it's been a while since we've taken a walk it's actually been too long and you know it's been a stressful month and uh it's been mounting up you know we didn't have the van all the shipping stuff but additionally we weren't able to really kind of effectively travel and so it's been just kind of a stressful time and i'm pretty pumped that i get to get out here in the nature hi how are you doing good so one of the things that makes this forest walk really cool it's these big huge pine trees or i think they look more like cypress trees i'm not sure exactly what they are but they're just kind of almost haunted they're tall and they have all this moss growing on them and they look really cool and we're up at about 7 200 feet elevation the weather here has really been kind of in the 50s and 60s for the most part like on a sunny time like right now maybe up to the mid 70s but it rains a lot and i was fortunate today that it cleared up long enough for me to get out here on this hike well i think that's going to stop my hike looks like the shoe is coming unglued not only did the sole just completely come unglued but it's coming unglued up here so i got to start heading back with a floppy foot so the weather is nice today we're getting some laundry done there goes our friend summer who is amazing and been very friendly and giving us tons of advice oh another overlander from florida yeah and um they've been here since the pandemia but hopefully we see them again she has recommended a really cool restaurant where we're gonna go have some lunch let's go eat so we just rode our bikes up the road and had a yummy lunch at what is the name of this place kurt artesian artisanal artisanal really really yummy but looks like rain we got to get back to the hostel and get our clothes off the line because we washed them this morning and they're drying it's calling me blue so this morning we got a special treat so the girls have been telling me about this awesome drink so it's hot chocolate con queso so this is like a mozzarella cheese it's kind of like a and so the cheese is a little bit spongy and absorbs the hot chocolate and so delicious and yummy but it's one of their favorites so they made it for us i thought that was really that's very nice so we have been parked up at this little hostel maybe 45 minutes outside of medellin up in the mountains very peaceful very quiet very comfortable the people that work here and the people that own and run this place have been very nice and i don't think i realized just how anxious i was to start this knee replacement replacement process um as we got closer and closer to medellin i could just kind of feel my shoulder muscles tightening up and i was distracted and yeah and i guess this is a pretty big deal guys i'm finally going to get my knee fixed it's something we've been working on for a long time uh and we're headed down to medellin today for my doctor's appointment to see how we feel about the doctor here and um so step one and then step two we will head towards cali a city about eight hours from here where we meet with another doctor and then i'll be able to pick and then we'll start to schedule this surgery guys so i think this hostel has been exactly what i needed we had some really nice campfires just surrounded by these pretty little flowers we were able to walk the kitties ride the bikes not very far on a nice little road up for a nice lunch it's just been exactly what i needed to get my head in the game and get ready to get this knee replaced so now it's time to leave this little place and head down to the big city we were gonna drive our van down there and try to find somewhere we can park it and then get to the hospital where i meet with an international liaison lady first at four o'clock and my doctor's appointment is at five o'clock so let's head down to medellin so we've left the hostel and we've left the little area of santa elena that's the little neighborhood we were up there in and we're going down the curvy mountain road headed down into the valley to medellin and the first thing we're going to do when we get down there is we're going to ride by the hospital because we're in this big van and it's not just going and finding a typical parking place so we're gonna ride by the hospital and see if there is a parking option and we have left ourselves plenty of time that if there's not we can find a paid parking lot somewhere and still get a taxi to the hospital and then we also have to ride around a little bit and check out a few places of where we can sleep tonight in the van in the city so that is the plan and don't forget i have to get shoes yes and we need to get groceries yup we need groceries and kurt has blown out both pairs of his teddy shoes all right we have found the hospital and kurt is doing a little investigating to see if we have parked close to where we will need to go and i think we've found decent parking we will have to see what he comes back with but this nice lady seems to be helping him so it's 3 000 pesos an hour to park here so we go run our errands we come back and she thought these spots would still be empty and we're right by the entrance so we have found a spot that looks safe and secure to sleep tonight in the city probably 20 minutes from the hospital so it ought to work out pretty good and we have plenty of time to spare so we're gonna go and try to find kurt some new tennis shoes this is a legit mall i even saw a few american stores not many but i saw american eagle but we're headed to a store called decathlon which is a sports store see if we can find kurt some new shoes they have my size that's awesome this is a size 46 or 12 which is hard generally to find in latin america these are long enough but they're not wide enough so but it's good they have my size all right we'll see all right we're grabbing lunch in the mall at the food court kurt found him a new pair of shoes with you uh they're colombian shoes and they're about 35 everything else i could find was like 60 to 100 and then you have my size it's all right we've got shoes next up finish eating go to the grocery store so the kitties have been so good that they're getting new toys today we finished up at the grocery store traffic was a little tough walking from the grocery store to the car was a long walk but we have made it to the hospital we found the parking spot that we picked out this morning now we're headed in all right so we got there about 3 45 15 minutes early went to the international office met with our helper girl um still not quite sure what her role is but she walked us over to another building she checked us in where we were waiting for the doctor and then she came out and told us the doctor had to leave so they needed to reschedule our appointment so um yeah we're tired disappointed it's been a long day frustrating day and they just showed little compassion so yeah not a good start no but uh my first instinct was no we'll just leave and head on to cali and forget it but kurt brought us back down the ground and said we're here we do need to meet with that doctor so and we see them at one o'clock tomorrow and we'll see how it goes so with that we will see y'all in the morning because we're gonna find our camp spot and have some dinner and call it a night it's been a long day good morning guys all right we ended up street parking last night uh that campsite we thought we had scoped out when we got there we kind of got ran off by a security guard so it was getting dark we saw a nice level street in a safe looking neighborhood parked on the side of the road worked out just fine uh nobody bothered us felt safe all night got a good night's rest feeling a little better y'all probably picked up on the fact that we were pretty bummed and and down and stressed out about the doctor's appointment getting cancelled yesterday but we're going again today we'll be there at one o'clock and we're taking you guys with us so so kurt took the kitties out for a walk this morning right here next to the van it's a nice neighborhood we ended up in couldn't tell when we got here last night but when he came back in he had picked us up to tamales for breakfast he's frying a little egg to go on top of his what kind of tamales are these kirty do you know uh i think they're mixed though i think they've got some carne and he said a bunch of stuff but i didn't understand everything so i guess it's going to be a bit of a surprise let's see what it looks like right here oh yeah there's some carne maybe some not sweet potatoes what do they call them down here maybe it's got some plantains or do you think that's carrots carrots probably there we go you can see the big bananas these giant banana leaves these came in but look at this thing guys huge tamale it was 4 000 pesos the guy was bringing around one dollar basically and look at that giant tamale look at that so we're gonna put a couple fried eggs on that and that'll be a delicious breakfast curt is a happy guy this morning deliciousness so i want to share with you guys a bit of a funny story so we use these one liter bottles in the refrigerator here and we reuse them and we mix orange drinks in them but we'll get water from the tap and then put it in the fridge they fit nicely in the fridge we can get four across the top right here and so that's where we keep our water cold and we just got two bottles of vinegar now vinegar we use in our tank in our gray water tank it kind of helps clean it and keep it fresh or whatever so we got groceries yesterday and accidentally snow put the vinegar in the fridge like it was water so last night in the middle of the night snow tell them what you did all right i got up in the middle of the night opened the fridge reached in grabbed a water bottle took the lid off and guzzled vinegar it was horrible i was out here eating anything i could brushing my teeth like 10 times and probably took an hour for the heartburning feeling to go away a little bit of vinegar i think's okay but not a big guzzle i do not recommend it the only unfortunate part is that i missed it which also means we didn't get to film it so you guys missed it but i bet it was something to see it's been a somewhat relaxing morning we were able to stay right here on our nice little street parking campsite for the night well into the morning but now it is time to go try this whole doctor's appointment thing again so time to get into the hectic city traffic driving you ready kurt fun fun fun so hopefully the doctor's appointment goes well and then we will head out of the city we got a good parking spot today right outside of the building and stephanie is waiting for us inside so today goes better than you hopefully so so snow stepped up there she's paying for her appointment i can tell you guys she is super super duper nervous about uh about this appointment and what the doctors are gonna say and what what the outcome may be but i guess the time has come where we're fixing to find out now this will be the third doctor visit she's had so the third opinion and then as you guys know we have one more coming up in medellin i'm sorry cali she's signing on the dotted this time that i understand the risks thank you very much wow kurt is navigating this extreme crazy traffic i'm gonna wind this video down doctor's appointment number one is done and the report is it went pretty good me and kurt both agree we like the doctor the lady that helps translate that comes from the international office was very helpful we expect a full quote for what it would cost to have knee replacement surgery because that is what this doctor recommends in a couple of days all right so we're pleased with doctor number one we're off to see doctor number two we'll see you guys in a few days cheers if you like this video be sure to subscribe to our channel and hit that notification bell so you guys know when we put out new videos and don't forget you can always follow us over on instagram to see what's going on in between videos cheers guys
2021-11-05 06:20
