“It’s kind of a funny story…” is how I will surely begin every narrative of our five-day voyage at sea from Panama to Colombia. Ah, yes, Panama to Colombia via the San Blas Islands–sailing through an idyllic and remote archipelago few people…
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A Foodie Tour of Casco Viejo
Ah, Casco Viejo, Panama. The longer I travel the more I realize just how important great food is to my experience. I know not everyone feels this way–some people would be perfectly content eating hostel pancakes and home-cooked spaghetti every…
Quick & Dirty Panama, Part 2: Panama City
Part 1 of our Quick & Dirty Panama Tour took us to the glimmering white sand beaches and crystal clear waters of Bocas del Toro near the Costa Rican border. After 5 days of aquatic adventures and fun in the…
Quick & Dirty Panama, Part 1: Bocas del Toro
Typically, my preferred style of travel–if it hasn’t become obvious yet–is slow and thorough; plodding, one might even say. In South America, I spent anywhere from three to nine weeks in every country I visited, limiting myself to a handful of cities so…
Month in Review: October 2014
It’s wild to think that at this time last year, I was in Cusco, Peru, mapping out my future life as an English teacher in Buenos Aires as I recovered from my first excursion to Machu Picchu. There may or may…
