There is a saying in spanish "borrocho de sueno" (there is a squiggly over the n) -drunk with sleep. Well I am suffering from a Panama hangover. I got home last night after a 17 hour journey from Gamboa to Panama, then DFW, LAX and finally San Diego. My cell phone died in the middle of the night and I thought the beeping was monkeys calling. I was confused why the floor was suddenly so comfortable and why was it so cold? Shouldn't I have been sweating and swatting mosquitos? Luckily I did not arrive home sick this time and the [View Full Entry]

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This morning one tamarin was darted at the Gamboa Eco-resort. It was a young female. Unfortunately, the dart factured her leg. I guess this happens frequently but the majority of the animals return to the forest and heal over time. So she will be released later once we find the tamarins again. The tamarins live in a small forest patch between the Gamboa canal zone houses and the Gamboa resort. Many local families-who work for STRI- fed them bananas in the morning. This makes it easy to track them and low enough for Bob to dart them. Today, the Authoridad Canal [View Full Entry]

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Well I figured out how to catch a falling monkey. You use bird netting, the same kind used to mist net birds. We caught 2 mono titi- tamarin monkeys in the neighborhood where we are staying. They were literally right across the street from the house in Gamboa where we are staying. It is a little surreal to see monkeys from the porch window of a canal zone style house. The monkeys are fed by the family who lives in the house across the street. Very easy to catch and see them! I will write more later when I have more [View Full Entry]

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I am now in a very purple hostel in David, Chiriqui Panama. I left Isla Popa in the morning and spent the day in Bocas with Clementina and her family. I forgot how hot Bocas is and how fast I burn here! I was a little bummed I didn't get to eat my favorite food, jonny cake, beacsuae it wasn't made yet. I was able to get one later in Almirante though. Isla Popa was good to see again. Yesterday, several groups of tourists came by to see the community, buy beadwork and chacaras and play volleyball. It was a little [View Full Entry]

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I am still in avid waiting to take the midnight bus to Panama City. I hate getting there at night so I'm on this bus arrives at 530 AM where I will meet up with the other monkey researchers. Bugging out in Panama I have so many bites and picasones, I'm itchy, from the bugs here. On Isla Popa there were chitras/ sandflies which can drive any ngabe or gringa loca, colradios/ciggers which itch for weeks ans zancaudo/ mosquitos which are not as bad since it is the dry season, even in Bocas. I wonder what awaits me the next 9 [View Full Entry]

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Coconut oil [View Full Entry]

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I made it to Bocas after 24 hours of traveling from San Diego to Bocas. Whew. I will be going to Isla Popa manana. First I am going to eat at the Buena Vista and go to sleep! Julie- I ran into your people from Cristobal. It never fails that I see Santos and Miguel! [View Full Entry]

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I'm leaving from LA to head down to Costa Rica. I'll be taking the bus down to Bocas for a few days. A few weeks ago I went and spoke to a group of kids in a "Kids for Peace" group. They made 29 peace pack bags to take down to Panama. The peace packs are drawstring bags with a handprint on them (from one of the kids for peace) and filled with school supplies, a stuffed animal, a rubber ball and a note in Spanish for the kids. Each bag also has a blank piece of paper which I'm hoping [View Full Entry]

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I just got off the bus from the border with Panama. It is around 930 and a horrible time and place to get a taxi is the Terminal Caribe. The taxi driver claimed he could not use the meter and took me to a bus stop for San Carlos not Hotel Don Carlos. They the guard said it was okay to give him 1,000 colones! That is not a good deal it should have been half that price! Hence the title Brava! [View Full Entry]

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I spent this past saturday with some of my favorite kids from Popa, and a new one I just met. Porfilio and Edy were my friends when I lived there and I still have many of their drawings. They took me along with Tito to their farm. Then we stoped at Ricardo's in Crawl Cay for some johnny cakes and sodas and then out to the bouy to swim. It was so much fun and Bocas is still so beautiful! [View Full Entry]

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