I’ve been in El Valle de Anton so long now that I can’t even remember arriving. Has it been a month yet I’m not sure? Right now I wake up, eat my free pancakes and fruit and then all that’s left to do is to figure out which mountain, waterfall or adventure is on the agenda. …
THE WEEKLY
Ah, life on the road living out of a backpack. Glorious freedom. However, sometimes you run into a few hurdles and week 112 had a significant issue. After the cliff jumping day in Los Valles, I woke up with crazy pain in my right ear. It continued all day and kept getting worse. A local …
The 111th week on the road began with a journey from Boquete to Valle de Anton. It took about 9 hours with three different buses. The entire journey cost about $15 dollars in comfortable public buses. I arrived at Bodhi Hostel in Valle de Anton, which would be my base for the next three weeks. …
This week I headed back to Boquete to have a week of smashing out blogs, running consistently and hitting the gym. It was a work week essentially. I ran 45 kilometers, wrote 15 blog posts in 6 days an went to the local gym four times. Sometimes I need this blocks to catch up. It’s …
I was lucky enough to get an invitation out to a small island called Cebaco Island. It was about an hour boat ride from Santa Catalina or for me a whole day of bus trips to meet the owners at the jump-off spot on either side of the split. The island is home to 300 …
After almost a month of exploring the jungles and mountains of Panama it time to hit the beach. I caught a few local buses and made my way down to Santa Catalina, the premier surf town in Central America. I stationed up working with Hotel Santa Catalina for a week and began adventuring around the …
Santa Fe is a small mountain town in the region of Veraguas. I caught three buses from Boquete and it took me almost all day to make the journey costing about $15 total. The public bus system in Panama is pretty efficient and after more than ten buses, I’ve never waited for more than 10 …
Solo travel. It’s back. I said Josh farewell as he headed back to Australia to get ready for the launch of his book and to consume four smoothie bowls daily. I was left in Boquete, to explore the final few hikes on the agenda. I had left the best til last. The hikes proved to …
After the storms came to defeat us last week in Bocas Del Toro, we headed on a ferry and then a 5-hour bus inland towards Boquete. We were hoping to escape the storms or at the very least be in an environment where they didn’t affect the possible adventures like a tropical island. We checked …
After our San Blas Adventure, Josh and I grabbed a private room at Hostel Casa Areka in Panama City. With a fridge, a desk and pancakes included for breakfast we were on for a solid week. We had five nights in Panama City and we decided to hit the ground running. Literally. I’ve been stepping …
This week Josh and I made it from Colombia to Panama. It took us five hours to get across the border with sniffer dogs and a slow, slow process. Our journey took four days but it was an epic four days. We were exploring the San Blas Islands on our way from Colombia to Panama …
Guatape was the base for the main days of this week’s adventure. An hour and a half bus ride from Medellin had us into the mountainous land of Guatape, a truly astonishing place that looked more like Europe than Colombia. Like many tourists before us, we had come to see the big rock, La Piedra …