Archive for January, 2008

Anton Valley

Monday, January 21st, 2008

The Anton Valley trip proved to be worthwhile, even though the 45 minutes it was billed at turned out to be almost double that uphill, and nearly an hour coming back down. Being in the very back of the bus as it wound up the mountains didn't help much either, ...

Embera Village Excursion

Friday, January 18th, 2008

It wasn't exactly a bust, but the Embera excursion left a bit to be desired. It wouldn't have been bad at all if there hadn't been 7 hours of driving to do 4 hours of activity. It was billed at a little more than 2 hrs each way, but ...

Hola Panama!

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Despite the best efforts of whoever was driving the bus from Tocumen Airport, we made it to Playa Blanca alive. Passed a smashup with a dead body on the side of the road, that certainly didn't do much for our confidence. Serious thing, it was a scary drive, about 25kph ...