OK, Lets get up-to-date!! Maybe this picture of me, is not the "best", but guess what? It is current as of two weeks ago! I am quickly recovering from a mishap suffered due to in-experience on a 4X4 ATV in the Colombian mountains! But survival is the "operative phrase", and yes that is insured at this point! I have been doing some re-hab back in Bogota, and think that I will be back to 100% in a few more weeeks. For those interested in the details, I'll be brief-I was returning from some excitement in the mountain terrain and river crossing riding the ATV late afternoon [three weeks ago, June 22nd] outside of Annapoima, Colombia. Although I was on flat terrain, it was an old gravel road, that was unerdgoing some repair, due to low light conditions, I failed to see some makeshift 5 Gallon paint cans that were used to warn one that the road was torn up and "dug out". You can probably picture the rest, see me "launched" from the point of impact to a rough landing in the construction area!

Annapoima has no emergency services, so Annapoima's Mayor with his pickup truck was the only vehicle with enough "size" to load my A__ in to get me off the street! With only a "First Aid Station" in Annapoima, I was transported to another small town nearby that reportedly had X-Ray equipment! Arriving there, it was determined that the images were not clear, and that probably the next decision too be made is how to best get back to Bogota? It was by now, about 10:00 pm and we made a call to Bogota to send us an ambulance. The trip from Bogota would take approximately 90 minutes to 2 hours, because of the 2 lane mountaineous roads! So, I finally made it to the emergency room in a privte Bogota hospital at 3:00 AM. After that, everything normalized and I will be back in shape soon.

During this period, I have done some arthimetic and verified that 2008 minus 1936, equals 72 years of age, probably too old to really get too interested in ATV'ing as a serious past-time! We are now scheduled to return to Atlanta on August 05.