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I spent the last few hours in Boquete sitting at an open window table in Selina’s restaurant, drinking iced Irish coffee and surveying the busy main street. Another beautiful, sunny day in Boquete, a town which I have swiftly grown to love, even with all of the nonstop barrage of people. Lots and lots of…
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After the bone-rattling trek to the coffee joint, I elect to switch buses to the one going back to the hotel, rather than the others heading out to look at typical rental homes in the area. I need to decompress a bit, after frantically trying to undo a grievous error on my part early on…
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On today’s itinerary, my big pull was the coffee plant way up on the mountain. The tour format got changed up a little in that our group divvied up to fit into three smaller vans to more easily traverse this treacherous terrain. Our big main bus could not, by any meager stretch of the imagination,…
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No more lowlands for us! We’re all about mountain escapades up in here. To a certain extent, that is. From Boquete, it is necessary to go back down and circumvent the volcano near the base at David to make our way up the western side to Volcan. The popular opinion around these parts is that…
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As it turned out, Mykonos Hotel is right outside Santiago, the second or third largest town in Panama. Panama City, Santiago, and David are the Three. Both Santiago and David have around 120-130K population, which is actually a great number for a town. Not overwhelmingly metro, but of sufficient size to sport welcomed amenities such…
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More bus riding, more towns to drive through, and more tidbits of information to glean, all to cap it off at the hotel of choice that day. Who’da thunk? Today was Anton and Penonome (how the hell do I do accents on this thing?), Chitre, Las Tablas–bopping around the Azuero Peninsula in general. Chitre is…
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We left P.C. at 10am for points west. After crossing the Canal one last time, the bus pointed toward Nueva Gorgona, where one of our tour guides lives. He led us to La Ruina, an interesting little community built on the “ruins” of the Army Corps of Engineers, who vacated the compound once the Canal…
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Pithy title ignored, P.C. is marginally interesting on our first full day of the tour. My tour group is #197 with this company, and this is only the second tour with Panama City as a scheduled tour day. Potentially living in the metro area is not particularly my cup of tea, but it does have…
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I created this blog primarily to inform and secondarily to entertain. Kind of my raison d’etre when it comes to my nonfiction travel/nonadventuring writings, just like my books. Last year I started to think seriously about leaving the U.S., possibly for good. There are a litany of reasons why, but mainly is the fact that…
Consensus Reality is for Suckers
Dispatches from a Broken Mind
Consensus Reality is for Suckers 