day one--traveling

My cousin told me that it is sacrilegious to leave the United States and go to another country on Independence Day, but the tickets were cheaper and we needed to get a move on....so left Sacramento on the 4th, flew to L.A. met up with maryannes co-worker, and my new friend Zack in L.A., then we took a red-eye to Ft. Lauderdale, FL....had an 8 hour layover, so we slept on the ground in the airport(yes, we were those dirty back-packing people)....ate some shitty airport food, and got on our 3 hour flight to Colombia.