Family FIRE Travels: A Week in Medellin, Colombia Story

Medellin, Colombia may not be the first destination you have in mind when it comes to Spring Break or a family vacation.

The city is practically synonymous with the drug cartels and violence that peaked in the 1980s and 1990s.

Over the last two decades, however, the city has undergone a remarkable physical and cultural transformation.

Friends of ours spent a summer in the “City of Eternal Spring” in 2019, and one of my best friends from residency is building a home there for himself, his Colombian bride, and their baby.

Having heard good things about the city from friends I trust, I did not hesitate to book flights for a week-long getaway in Medellin.

Why Colombia for Spring Break?

Relationships are tricky

Since we do some combination of homeschooling and worldschooling — more of the latter in 2022 — we don’t necessarily have a defined spring break, but this trip happened to take place in early-to-mid-March, which is prime spring break time for some states.

We had already planned to be in Florida for a month. We had a cruise scheduled for late February, which was canceled. Later in March, we had the DLP Prosperity Meeting starting on St. Paddy’s Day and a few more days at Universal Orlando toward the end of the month.

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