{"id":8423,"date":"2020-05-04T08:46:15","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T15:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=8423"},"modified":"2020-05-04T08:59:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T15:59:37","slug":"plata-o-plomo-filmed-in-colombia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/05\/04\/plata-o-plomo-filmed-in-colombia\/","title":{"rendered":"Plata O Plomo: Filmed in Colombia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Susie and I are hanging out at home, getting out for our daily walk or two, and generally obeying our fearless, fiercely-partisan, and fear-mongering leaders as we wait for them to declare a CV19 victory.\u00a0 We’ve been watching a lot of TV while under house arrest, and it’s a big deal when we find a series we haven’t seen before.\u00a0 We had one such discovery last week with Narcos<\/em>, a series on Netflix about the drug wars in Colombia.<\/p>\n

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Silver or Lead, Amigos y Amigas. Or in this case, a Model 625’s stainless steel and six full metal jacket .45 ACP rounds.\u00a0 That hat is one of my favorites.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Somehow we missed Narcos<\/em> the first time around, although I was vaguely aware of its existence from a hat I picked up at an International Association of Chiefs of Police convention in San Diego two or three years ago.\u00a0 Good buddy and retired police chief Mike was going to the IACP convention and he invited me along as his official “Assistant to the Director.”\u00a0 I was even issued an official laminated ID card, but Mike drew the line when I asked him if I would get a gun, too.\u00a0 His answer was immediate and clear:\u00a0 No<\/strong>.\u00a0 That’s okay, I already had a gun.<\/p>\n

Mike and I had a good time at the IACP show and we came home with a lot of swag.\u00a0 One bit of that haul was a Narcos<\/em> hat embroidered with the show’s tagline:\u00a0 Plata O Plomo<\/em>.\u00a0 If your Spanish is a bit rusty, it means Silver or Lead, with the premise being (if you were a Colombian cop or politician) your choice was either a bribe or a bullet.<\/p>\n

The Narcos<\/em> Netflix series is the story of Pablo Escobar, the activities involved in taking him down, and the drug wars in Colombia.\u00a0 From the first episode, I thought the scenery was stunning. \u00a0 I mentioned to Sue that it looked exactly the way I remembered Colombia from my Andean adventure.\u00a0 We started in Medellin’s Antioquia neighborhood (which, by the way, was Pablo Escobar’s old stomping grounds). \u00a0 Sue checked it out on her cell phone and, sure enough, Narcos<\/em> was indeed filmed in Colombia.<\/p>\n

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Riding with good buddy Carlos in Colombia.\u00a0 That’s me in the green jacket.\u00a0 Photo by good buddy Juan DeMotos.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We’ve been binge-watching Narcos<\/em> and every scene brings back a memory for me.\u00a0 Colombia is a magnificent place, and I loved every minute of that adventure.\u00a0 I’m going to recreate that ride by posting some of the photos (the one above is but a sample) of one of the grandest adventures I’ve ever enjoyed. \u00a0 I’ll post a series of blogs from our Colombia trip over the next two weeks.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned, folks.\u00a0 This is going to be good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Susie and I are hanging out at home, getting out for our daily walk or two, and generally obeying our fearless, fiercely-partisan, and fear-mongering leaders as we wait for them to declare a CV19 victory.\u00a0 We’ve been watching a lot of TV while under house arrest, and it’s a big deal when we find a … Continue reading “Plata O Plomo: Filmed in Colombia”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[654,89,369],"tags":[299,247,78,298],"class_list":["post-8423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure-motorcycle-books","category-motorcycle-adventure-ride","category-zongshen","tag-akt-motos","tag-colombia","tag-csc-motorcycles","tag-de-motos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8423"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8429,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8423\/revisions\/8429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}