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We plan to get FM3 visas, but we've not done the necessary stuff for that yet. There are specific reasons for that, most involving the hopes of bring stuff down from the United States during decent weather and being able to avoid paying huge import duties. I won't get into that now, as it's tedious and lame. Besides, if you want to know about that stuff, there's already plenty online about Mexican visa requirements and the steps to obtain them.

Apart from my generally being terrified of flying, the trip will be very exciting. Bogotá is a metropolis of 7 million people, with all the modern conveniences as well their accompanying problems. Even so, really wacky stuff goes on there. Former mayor Antanas Mockus declared a "night without men" in 2001, when all men had to be off the streets by 8:30 pm in order to draw attention to the city's high rate of crime against women, an element of Bogotá life that leads 40% of husbands in the city to forbid their wives' going out at night. In 2003, MP Luis Eduardo Diaz was suspended for using a dildo as a prop during a debate in parliament where he was proposing the forced sterilization of the poor to curb birth rates.

Who knows if we'll see any such unusual bogotano behavior, but if so, you'll read it here. We are going for a week at the beginning of June.