I made it! I made it successfully to Colombia and wow what an amazing experience so far! My Spanish isn't paying off too much but it comes in handy to have broken one word conversations to people. These masks don't help anything that's for sure! I don't know if it's soft spoken conversations or they really can't understand me. Either way I'm getting by on what i learned. Also, might i say that Medellín has these most beautiful women i have ever seen. I have not met/seen a woman that does not "do it" for me. Old, young, my age all are just delightful. And something that brings me great joy is seeing these beautiful figures, and my attempts to be engaging in my broken spanish have been humorous to myself.