Harbor Inn Bed & Breakfast Colon
Residencial Espinar Colon, --, Panama
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A MAN A PLAN A CANAL PANAMA
... to advise a number of people of our progress and having got my timings very wrong in the text messages the night before, I was frantically sending message after message to correct my timings. If I led you on with my first text message, please accept my apologies. We were in the first locks at 10.30 BST not midday to 1pm as I predicted. There are three sets of locks; a linked pair (Miraflores), then a single (Pedro Miguel) at the Pacific end of the ...
Darien Gap Crossing (pt 1: The Car)
... it wide enough for a full-size Mitsubishi Montero? Of course it is. It must be. After a quick discussion we agree that the camper van will go first because it is lighter: this way the 3.8l engine of my big Montero will be closer to the center of the container, for better balance. This my idea... no one else seems to care.
Robin drives his vehicle into the dark container, and our guide starts strapping it and ...
Shipping the car to Colombia… almost!
... words of introduction Señor Boris repeats the story of the damaged and delayed boat, and explains that he was only informed this morning and apologizes for making us wait: he was on the phone trying to get more information and to find a solution. He says we have 3 options: pay $50 daily port storage fees until the boat comes; come back t drop the cars off in 2 days to avoid the fees; switch to another shipping line (with a different procedure and different costs). When ...
"I have of late...lost all my mirth."
... Standing shoulder to shoulder with these guys then maybe. Yet this week, the exceptions to the rule have been, well, ruling. So it must be something else.
Incidentally the only other girl I was interested in is now pulling one
of the alphas in the dark somewhere in front of me. This is probably
not a bad thing, since the Irish lass looks exactly like my ex. That's a
whole other story, and one that ...
Santana
... Es hat sogar eine ganz berühmte Insel, auf der nur eine einzige, dafür aber sehr fotogene Palme steht.(Wenn es die umbläst, pflanzen die Kuna sie dann neu?)
Alle paar Stunden kamen ein paar Kuna mit dem Einbaum angepaddelt, und boten uns Kunsthandwerk, Fisch, Hummer und vieles mehr an. Das Kunsthandwerk war leider sehr überteuert, den Fisch hatte Gisbert schon selbst gefangen, nur Hummer gabs dann leider doch noch für die meisten Passagiere.
Für alle die, die es noch ...


