Cabanas Cholita Colon

... next day we met up at 8 AM for the loading of our 40 ft. cubed container. For some reason when we went to drive into the Port the security would only allow Nick and I to go through... I guess it some sort of boys club thing! Who knows!! It is amazing the speed at which the locals move at, as is it took an hour and half for us to get the vehicles loaded. We then came back to pay for the shipment, which only could be paid in ...

just left the panama city and am in a place called colon, on the caribbean sideof the contry. today started out as a very bad day when we left panama city, we found out that the shipping company we are using to send our van over to Columbia was closed, it was also rainng very hard but still hot enough to be sweating, not good for the smell of the old van. also the town here is very sketchy and very poor, run down, and our travel book says we would ...

... and attempting to cut open coconuts with Joel and Andrea's machete. Saw a lot of toucans. (Mar. 28) Went to the city of Colon and saw the world's second largest free trade zone (which was lame). The first largest is in Hong Kong. Cory, Joel, Andrea and I took a cab out to a remote fort called San Lorenzo and managed to get the $5 entrance fee knocked down to $2 by saying we were international exchange students. We saw at ...

As much as we had looked forward to Barro Colorado Island (and talked it up to the students), Alex and I had downplayed the visit to the Galeta Marine Laboratory (also a Smithsonian Institute facility). We had two reasons for doing this: first, it's awesome and we wanted the students to experience it for themselves without a bunch of fanfare from us. Second, the lunch we had eaten there two years earlier (the last time ...

... has all the money and controls Panama.   This means that Panama does everything in its power to support the shipping industry.   So, no road has been built between Panama and Columbia, ensuring that the shipping companies have to be used to move goods between the continents.    Some people have ridden their bikes through what is called the Darien Gap - a very sparsely populated area between Columbia and Panama, mostly inhabited by Amerindians and rumored to be very dangerous, loaded ...

... nutritious thing I ate in Portobelo. Shen was determined to watch the League of Champions Barcelona/Leon soccer game while in Portobelo, and we thought he'd have no trouble at all finding a place to watch it. After all, every other guy on the street was wearing Barcelona paraphernalia. Unfortunately, either it was just for show, or Carnaval takes precedence, because no one seemed too enthusiastic to watch it. However, after enough ...

Scrivo nella mia ora d'aria visto che ho piazzato anna davanti ai suoi aristogatti (sempre sia lodato il dvd portatile) e chiara dorme, e ho mezzo secondo di tempo per pensare ai miei cari e a me stessa. In questi giorni non ho praticamente avuto nemmeno il tempo di andare al cesso, e sto dicendo sul serio, eh. Le bambine stanno bene anche se soffrono moltissimo il caldo, Chiara č costantemente in un bagno di sudore, si sveglia completamente fradicia come appena uscita dalla ...

... under a sign that said REY and the sign was about 100 feet up, the bus stoped and droped him right directly under it so he comes runing to our window freaking out where is it where is it looking every direction, we then point up and wave good by as our bus pulls away. on the bus we meet some old american soldier whos been living in panama since 1977 he tells us stories about all sorts of things to pass time ...

... when they told us they had room we jumped at it. 29th - This morning we set off to go to the bank and the Seaboard Office, our first problem was that the bank decided we could not get the money using our card as they have a $500 limit. We decided to go to the office to talk to them and guess what, they are closed today and to make it worse Monday is a holiday so as it stands at the moment we may not be able to ship Kirsty on this vessel as we cannot give ...

... who helped us out wherever possible. Taught us the great Spanglish word ´Por-for-f*cking-vor´. Eddie the Whining Pirate - Canadian Electrician who left his job to go fishing for the summer with his terminally ill father. Funny guy, good company but frustratingly walks off or goes off on a tangent at any chance possible. Loves his rum and cigars and reminding people they owe him the odd dollar here and there. Rosemary the Colombian ...