The Shermans

We are still hanging out in Santa Fe. We took a short trip to Santa Catalina to visit the beach and take a vacation from our vacation. We stayed at a great little hostal called the Blue Zone. It had hammocks overlooking the Pacific Ocean. There is a huge hype right now about this little town, but we just couldn´t see it. It has a very small beach. It is suppose to be excellent for surfers so maybe that is why we didn´t quite get into it. We did have some great food at a little restaurant called Donde Vianca. Not only did she have great food, she was about the only restaurant open for lunch. We are not quite sure where the tourists are suppose to eat there (although there aren´t many tourists there). Not ... read more

Here we are, once again! This is the first time we have actually travelled on a bus for an hour and a half to use the internet! Since we last wrote we have travelled up to Santa Fe. It is a cute little town in the center of Panama and mountainous. There is excellent hiking here and many rivers that are very clean. The little town itself has no road signs and no real organization, but it is fun watching the wandering cows graze in the market. Before coming to Santa Fe we made a quick stop at Las Olas (the waves) to celebrate our anniversary. It was an all inclusive 3 day stay. John surprised me with a nice bottle of champagne delivered to our room. Apparently it was suppose to be delivered while we ... read more

Hola from Costa Rica! We are missing everybody..especially over Christmas! We checked into getting a phone card to call everyone, but they are very hard to find...as well as the pay phones! We will call everybody when we make it back to Panama sometime in January, but just wanted to let everybody know we were fine. Thank you for all of the emails and we will reply when we have a better internet connection! Miss you all! Also, will upload some more pics when we get a chance! The digs are a little more primitave at this point!... read more

Hola from Panama City! We made it! It wasn´t without its struggles. Our flight was just fine, both planes leaving fairly close to on time. We arrived at customs and managed to not have our tourist cards to enter the country. It was the first of many tests of our spanish! We aren´t quite sure where along the way we were suppose to get the tourist cards, but we were directed by customs down the hall to purchase one. They were $5 each. Deb headed over to buy them and John waited at customs. 1st nerve racking experience! Getting thru customs and standing on the sidewalk outside the airport, we looked for the sought after ¨SHERMAN¨sign, but no one was there to greet us! This was not too much of a surprise since we had e-mailed ... read more

Well we have signed up for this journal for when we begin our real journey in December. Our first move was here to Minnesota to grab seasonal jobs working May thru November so we are free to actually begin our dream of traveling and eventually moving abroad. We have really enjoyed Minnesota, and when we are not relaxing on our deck after 11 hour work days, we can be found canoeing down the St Croix River finding an island to pitch a tent on. We are also enjoying many visitors here while we still can before being to far away. Dan, Topher, JJ, Angel, her husband Josh, Dad Sherman and Kim & Chuck have all made there way out for weekend visits. We look forward to many more before December. What else is new? Well ... read more