I moved on to Bill and Marjorie Heumann´s C&C 48 sailboat the Second Wind. The boat is immense compared to my 34´sailboat Lyric. It has two full staterooms with bathrooms and separate showers. The kitchen is large with refrigerator and freezer. There is a separate generator to supply electricity, and a 75 hp Perkins engine for motor power. T...

After our long bus ride, we were looking forward to staying in Panama City for a while. We ended up getting off the Tica bus into a huge bus terminal. It had a FOOD COURT...and a MOVIE THEATRE. I don´t think we´ve seen so many people at one time since we left. We took a taxi into town and checked in at the Hotel Colon. It was a pretty nice place...

Panama city was alot of fun. The first thing I did when I arrived was of course check out the Panama canal. I learned all sorts of fun facts about how it was built, how many people died during construction, how long it is and so on and so forth. Since I cant remember any of these fun facts I will spare you ( the few that actually read this) As y...

All-in-all I had about 24 hours in Panama between arriving on the bus yesterday afternoon and flying out today. After a much needed 12-hours of sleep I headed out to the Panama Canal. The canal was pretty cool. I only went to the first (or last) set of locks, the ones that connected the Pacific Ocean to the canal and causes in two steps an incr...

After our 7 hour bus ride from David, we arrived into Panama City. We took a taxi to the Voyager Hostel, another 'interesting' Central American taxi experience. We needed two taxi's and neither of the drivers knew where the hostel was (one of the biggest, most famous hostel's in Panama City!), so out came the Lonely Planet guides! Along the way ...

Panama via Caracas The next morning we were up at dawn for our flight to Panama City. Although we arrived to check in a good 2.5 hours before our flight, we only just made it through to the gate on time, due to umpteen queues for various things. One last cerveza from the Venezuelan brewery of bureaucracy that had kept us merry during the last 2 ...

I have more or less skipped the other Central American capitals; Guatemala City, Tegucigalpa and Managua. Traveling quickly through them in order to catch a connecting bus or because that's where the road runs. San Jose I didn't even go to, because it was way off my planned route. Anyway, none of them are known to be great cities, although I am ...

Today was a visit to the School of the Americas. The SOA was a training base for Latin American armies specializing in counter-insurgency strategy / low intensity conflict (LIC) and tactics. According to the SOA watch, the SOAs trained some of the most notorious human rights abusers in Latin American history. To check out its alumni, visit www....

Well, we have reached the end of the road in Central America - literally. The Interamericana ends here in Panamá and dosen´t start up for another 150kms in Colombia. In between is probably the most hazardous jungle and rainforest in the world. Obviously there are the bugs, Snakes, Spiders, Jaguars and diseases common to most tropical jungle but ...