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I got up early this morning and headed up into the mountains to a town called Boquéte… it’s really beautiful, nestled in a valley among gorgeous mountain scenery, the weather is refreshing.. warm in the sun but the air is cool which is a nice change from the hot, sweaty places I’ve been since I got down here… and I got to have my first veggie burger in over a week AND an awesome strawberry-banana smoothie… Woohoo!

Anyway… the hotel that I wanted to stay at is full, but the owner brought me to this woman’s house who has 4 rooms built on the top floor that are quite nice. I’m paying quite a bit ($12) but I have a nice view from my window and the bathroom is really nice, so whatever.

I’m going to stay here tonight and tomorrow night and then on Wednesday I plan to head back down the mountain to Davíd, switch buses, and make my way to the border of Costa Rica and hopefully make it to a beach town before dark…

It looks like I’ll be able to connect my camera to these computers to upload some pictures… will update a little later with those hopefully…

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Hello all,
After a long day of ridiculous transportation issues, I am now in the city of David in the Western end of Panama… I’m staying at a hostel here for the night before heading out tomorrow… either to the beach or to the mountains… I haven’t quite decided yet… But all is well… except for my butt from sitting in uncomfortable bus seats all day long…

Anyway… I need to get off the computer so I will update more when I next get a chance…

Pura Vida!

So this is my last night here in Chitré.. Tomorrow I will be heading out to a city called Davíd where I will be staying over 1 night before making my way to an island in the Pacific called Isla Boca Brava… which contains only 1 hotel/restaurant and no phone… But I should have internet and phone tomorrow… so you´ll hear from me before I disappear to the desert isle for a few days…

´Til then!

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So I´m still here in Chitré… I should be heading out tomorrow in search of the beach… but we´ll see if the place I´m planning on is going to have someplace for me to sleep… But yeah.. not much doing today.. just bummed around town a little more, spent some more time at church.. and read a lot of my current read Robinson Crusoe… I´m just enjoying the ambience of the place before moving on I guess..

In other news, I hear you folks up in NY are getting slammed this weekend… 12-18 inches of snow by Sunday morning? That´s pretty ridiculous… I´m almost sad I´m going to miss the ensuing chaos… but not that much

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My third day is winding down here in Panama… A day that began with a quite pleasant 3 1/2 hour-ish bus-ride.. with air conditioning and everything… and lord knows that won´t happen again…

I´m now in a town called Chitré, which is either a large town or a small city depending on your definition… but it´s a rather pleasant town/city… definitely not a tourist town… I don´t think I´ve seen anyone since I´ve been here that I would pick out as a tourist… But I guess that´s a big part of what I like when traveling… to see what life is really like in different places… It´s very calm compared to Panama City and everyone seems to be extremely friendly…

The main point of interest in the town is the cathedral… which is noted for it´s balanced use of wood and gold tone as opposed to the usual Central American tradition of over-doing it with gold. I went in to take a look and ended up sitting in on about an hour of what was a much longer mass… I think that´s the most time I´ve spent in a church in the last 5 years combined… at least… and I was surprisingly pleased by it… I´m feeling cleansed somehow… Who knew?

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Here I finally am… I´ve made my way down to the southernmost country in North America… any further south and I´d be in Colombia…

I´m sitting in an internet cafe in Panama City enjoying the feeling of posting my first entry about my first day of my 4 month trip… Unfortunately this computer doesn´t seem to have a port where I can connect my camera to post pictures, so those will have to wait til I find a better computer somewhere…

Suffice it to say that I´m enjoying myself… I´m staying at this hostel that occupies 2 floors of a highrise apartment building in a nice area of the city… and for all those up Norte, its 9:30pm and its a pleasant 79 degrees out… perfect for strolling around in the really inexpensive pair of Timberland sandals I got earlier… I think I´m gonna do a little bit more shopping tomorrow too cause everything is really cheap here.. I need a belt, a towel, and a watch… Woohoo!

I was hoping to do some touristy stuff tomorrow but we´ll see if I feel comfortable enough with my spanish to figure out the buses to watch the boats go through the locks on the canal… If not, I´m sure I´ll come up with something entertaining to do…

So.. until then.. signing off from Panama…

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