Top Highlights

• About a month after our engine failure, the second Grand Caravan in the fleet had crashed on takeoff, killing all three on board. These guys were heading out to look for us, and they died.
• In spite of the uncertainties involved, we were all convinced that this political camp would bring nothing but good into our lives. More people, less boredom, more freedoms. As usual, we were surprised by how wrong we were.
• We didn’t need to hear her name spoken to know that the woman who didn’t want us in her part of the camp was Ingrid Betancourt.
• “How you start is how you finish.”
• You shouldn’t be quick to judge people, but in the end you often found out that how people first presented themselves to you was pretty accurate and indicative of how you’d ultimately interact with them when all was said and done.