Blogs from Isla Colon, Bocas Del Toro, Panama, Central America Caribbean - page 19

We took these pix for Walter and Cindy, of their beautiful property in the Darklands near here...... read more

Misty Bridges,….visions of the sweaty clamouring heaving silicone of a budding porn queen….no, rather the engineering/meteorological interface phenomenon suffered by early risers on a stormy day, the tourista cop, maybe, and the parallel travellers come back to haunt me. Finally it had rained in Panama after threatening for weeks, or maybe I brought it back to P City from Colon (don’t mention the irrigation) after the transit. Whatever brought it on, it worked, so I left early and went West, funny set-up, but Panama actually runs East - West, not North - South as you would think!…I only discovered this as we went up the canal, at one stage I glanced at the compass, we were heading WNW, I nearly stopped drinking!, but they assured me with another can that all was well, but it still ... read more

Vi akte med Pamela, Mette och Bard till Bocas del Toro, dels for att Mette och Pam skulle fa fornyat sitt visum och dels for att jag garna ville se och uppleva ett annat land an bara Costa Rica… Bocas del Toro ligger précis vid gransen till Costa Rica och ar darmed ganska enkelt att resa till…Stallet bestar av flere oar och vi bodde pa huvud on, Isla Colon. Vi hade lite otur med vadret, regn och ganska mulet..men vi fick nog nagon sol dag oxa. I Panama var de karneval just den helgen som vi var dar sa de var spannande och uppleva det trots att hela arrangemanget var ganska halvveis som man sager i Norge... dvs alt var halv planerat och lite komiskt. Vi akte pa en snorkel tur en av dagarna och de ... read more

Today we drive from Boquete in the mountains to the Archipelago de Bocas del Toro in the Caribbean. By 8 AM the Toyota is headed back south from Boquete so we can pick up a shortcut over to the road that reaches to the Caribbean side of Panama. There are only two roads that go completely across this country and Boquete is not on one of them. We pass the road to the hot springs. It is slow going. At one high spot Luigi pointed out the Pacific ocean behind us and predicted that would be the next place to be developed. The Pacific side gets a lot less rain than the Caribbean and that is what folks want in a "getaway" second home. Big power lines cross the highway at several places. An ambulance passed ... read more

I woke up this morning to constant, heavy rain. Clouds as far as the eye can see...not too happy about that. I decided to make the most of the weather and head on down to Bocas del Toro, Panama-why waste a rainy day just sitting around when I can sit on a bus and a plane and be going somewhere? I met up with 4 other people who are going with me, we are getting a bus to the border, and we found an 11 dollar plane ticket from there to the islands. My hope is that I will be at a bar with a beer in my hand in time to see the second half of the Panthers game. I figure I will stay in the islands for roughly a week before heading back up ... read more