Between surfing and rock climbing this has been Connor’s happy place. Trust my kid to visit a country where everything is super cheap and find the two most expensive hobbies to fall in love with. He is definitely in his element on this wall. In the end he scaled it 5 times at ropes from easy to impossible. Honestly they all looked impossible to me. I have to give full credit to Cal as well on this one. He did…
Today was lots of fun. There were a few things on my list and it was a good day for a pile of miscellany. Phil and I got up early and drove into Boquete to explore downtown without constant complaining about too much walking or the boring places that Mom likes to explore. We targeted the Tuesday Farmer’s market, a gathering of various vendors that happens every Tuesday near the bridge that spans the river that passes through the centre…
Taking a down day today while Connor started back to his school work to make sure he doesn’t fall behind and to accommodate the plumber who came by to fix the toilets. Thank goodness he left the one he replaced in the middle of the yard, it needed a little of that trailer trash vibe to interrupt all that natural beauty. With not much going on I thought I would share a little about life in Panama and do a…
We finally found it! The mysterious and elusive waterfall of awesomeness, and I do mean awesome. Through a combination of google satellite images and tips from locals we were finally able to chart a course that our poor clown car could handle. That is not to say that the path was without potholes or hills. Some of the potholes were so big that they could have swallowed the car whole but they were easily navigated around and the car handled…
A bit of a rocky start to the day. We quickly discovered three thing about our Air BNB. Despite all that we soldiered forward to check out the Waterfalls that I have been dreaming of for months only to find that the inroads were very rocky and Phil was wildly uncomfortable with taking the rental on them. No waterfall for me. That fine when the 4:00 rain started I stood in the downspout from the roof and imagined really hard….
Much to the boys’ deep chagrin we left our Pedasi home bright and early, and to their much deeper chagrin I forced them to pose with the Pedasi sign on our way out the door. In my defense I had asked for that pose several times over the last 9 days. After forcing them to smile prettily we climbed back into the clown car and started the 5 hour drive to Potrerillos. The temperature dropped as our altitude climbed and…
Our finally day in Pedasi, thank goodness this wasn’t our whole trip because it definitely went by too quickly. For our last day I wanted to take a trip to the beach but was quickly stung by another freaking jellyfish. They are apparently spawning right now. For those who know me best you know if there is a jelly fish nearby it has a mandate to rush over and sting me immediately. I must have been something that eats jelly…
Back to the beach today. This lovely little resort is in a cove near Playa Venao, where the boys went surfing. It’s very sheltered making for fresh calm water and some cool coral that had no fish. It is stunning how quickly the tide comes in here. When we arrived the water was waist deep before you hit coral, an hour late you could have a deep water swim. So water here is like weather at home, if you don’t…
A slow couple of days. The good news is that everything worked just fine including Phil and I. Lots of Zoom calls and networks to access and nary a glitch. Not the best pictures but it was lovely to set up on the patio and enjoy the fresh air and bird songs while being a productive member of society. We also heard the truck guy. Sadly I wasn’t fast enough to get a picture because I didn’t recognize truck guy…
After two busy days we took some time to chill and bathe in Aloe Vera gel. Topped up our groceries, slept in a bit…you know just another day in paradise. We did take a trip to the beach to test out Starlink mobile to make sure we had back up internet. It worked like a charm and we made two new friends who were interested in the results. Craig and Lindsay were so fun and showed us their favourite beach…