19th February Cali

We have decided to have a comple clean up so had our suits laundered, probably about time, sadly they are not a gleemy as we had hoped but at least all the dust and grime of the last two and a half months will be out of them.
Had a chat with Mike here at the hotel who runs motorcycle tours himself and we have consolidated our future route and the highlights to see. We now need to sort how and where we are shipping the bikes home Mike has given us a contact and we have emailed a couple we know, we need to get this sorted as this will decide our end point.
Back to the garage and the tyres have not arrived and as it is Sunday tomorrow it will bee sometime Monday at the earliest so we can get them fitted in Medellin instead and that will suit us fine, at least they are there and booked out to us. I asked Sory at the garage to recommend hotels for us in our various stop off points and she has typed out an A4 sheet with lots of information including details of where we can get the bikes serviced, many thanks.
We haven’t cleaned the bikes at all since we have been here other than a couple of half hearted attempts to clean the screen, but there is a place around the corner where they clean bikes and cars. Well one and a half hours later and a fiver each and the bikes are gleaming, how do they make any money? While we are here about 7 policemen arrive on bikes, usually one riding and another on the back with an automatic weapon, they are very interested in the bikes, personally and not professionally. We have another photoshoot one with a guy with his gun and Martin and I with our arms around his shoulders whilst his colleague too k the photo.
Last job is to get a phone sim card as we will be here a little while, no bother with that and we are all set up.
We are staying here tomorrow and will head off on Monday to a coffee plantation on our way to Medellin.