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Published: June 12th 2011
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No, not punk...
What say ye, let it grow or off with it? Oioi,
I'll start by telling what I will be doing in the coming week.
I will be travelling to Colombia by pampampam ;p boat, a sailboat to be precise.
The trip will start somewhere in the area of Colon, Panama.
After setting sail we will be island hopping the San Blas islands for 3days(google San Blas if U want to see some really nice pictures 😉 ) after which we will travel trough open sea to northern Colombia where we will sack the city of Cartagena ye-arrrr(this still needs to be discussed with the captain though, alternatively we might just dock instead in a peaceful manner..).
And then from there I will make my way down to Ecuador etc...
Kay, Panama City.
Obviously when visiting this area one has to check out … aye, the canal.
For those who don't know, Panama city is located at the Pacific entrance to the Canal and so from the city you can easily do a little trip to the locks where they lift and lower the ships between sea- and canal-level.
The locks themselves are cool enough but not in a way that they leave a permanent impression on you, however, while I
was there a panamax was passing trough.
Panamax is a type of ship designed specially to the maximum capacity of the canal.
So this was a fully loaded container ship of 290meters long, 12m deep and 32,3m wide in a lock which was 33,5m wide.
Which meant that at each side they had 60cm space to manoeuvre...
The visit to the canal was cool as a result.
Besides some other small trips I didn't do a whole lot, partially due to the tropical climate I guess, chillin and doing nothing is just so tempting …
I did decide to add Uruguay to my trip too as I have heard the steak there is even better than in Argentina, so it should make a good final stopover on my trip 😉
Cheers,
P.
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Jacques
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Is fatigue and improvisation taking over a bit ? Or are the high temperatues spoiling your plans ?
I am sitting behind my computer living in a virtual world, whereas you are facing the real world. Perhaps you are making a pause, a stop in order to create some time for reflection ? There are indeed so many options and it isn't "always" easy to make the best possible choices. Let's not forget that there are so many things to see and after all , time is running out. I fully appreciate how difficult it must be to go for the real thing. Are you still to sort out a few options ? And are you therefore gaining time? Perhaps all this stuff is manageable and is the real problem the tropical climate. I don't exactly know how high the temperatures rise these days ?Extremely high, I suppose? About the seasons ? Is it winter time in Central America? And if so, it's difficult to believe that the temperatures still can go up so high? This week you are going to board a sailing boat for a trip which will last a couple of days. Hopefully this will cause some refreshment. Thereafer you will be heading to Uruguay... longing after the best of steaks. But you are kidding, I suppose? There must certainly be other reasons to visit Uruguay? About your beard and long hair. It's upto you to decide but in my humble opinion it doesn't really matter, and I am now going to be a little selfish, if it doesn't harm your zeal to rejoice us with your regular reports. Sometimes these reports suggest many things but afterwards we don't hear anything further about expressed intentions. In my foregoing posting I referred to looking behind the curtain, but as far as I can see, that curtain remains firmly closed, and last but not least: making plans which work is like going to Ikea, buy yourself a package of accessories, of which you are to make one piece of a furniture. Not easy, as we all will agree.