Photos of Panama..

I am including a link to my wife's FB page and you should be able to see the photos even if you are not a member of FB...I have no way to test it though so here is hoping...:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2723960945621.2117262.1455042755&type=1&l=ea88c60d37

You will have to cut and paste to your browser as I can't seem to put a link on Blogger.


Hope you can see them....
ManyWheelsBrian

A last bit about Panama...And home to New Mexico

It is a bit early but we are starting to have some of our spring winds here in NM and as the dust ramps up, I start sneezing...oof, allergies.

We had a great trip to Panama and our goal of visiting all of the countries in the Americas is one country closer. Very sweet country and very, very hard for me to get my head around the idea that in 1989 we invaded Panama. Amazing!

We found that it is an easy country to visit, it seems to be doing well with lots of jobs and a lively economy and that a lot of expats enjoy living there. I would go back any time. One interesting thing was that as the airplane neared the country and we filled out our visa forms, we were handed a folder with a detachable card that informed us that as tourists, we were covered for all our health care needs. How shamelessly socialistic! No wonder we invaded them! That crap can be catching...just think if all of us in the US realized you can actually do that and provide health care as a right and not have it continue to be a for-profit industry, it would turn the country upside down.

So in 16 days we visited the old part of the largest city, the Atlantic side at Boca del Toro, the uplands in the north at Boquete and the Pacific side at Boca Chica....giving a nice overview of the country.

I won't go into all of the experiences we had but there were many and we met a fair number of folks that we really enjoyed.

Now I am home in NM and working on happy-home-owner projects as well as getting my hack ready for a good long summer ride. I am experimenting with some ideas to set up a way that I don't have to sleep on the ground but up on the hack tub. Interesting project and I hope it works out....it would be nice to be up off the ground and able to park overnight in an occasional Walmart or Flying J truckstop....maybe a Pemex in Mexico....

Some pix...

Oh cool, I can post..

I have been having trouble posting on my blog as we travel but now it is working so I can tell you we are in the little town of Boquete here in the uplands of Panama after having spent time in Panama City...Casca Viejo or old town, time in Bocas del Toro on the Caribbean coast and now the uplands of the continental divide. I will post some pix when I get home next week.

It has been a great trip, with some good experiences all along.....

Yesterday was pretty special as we rented motor scooters and did some riding around the mountains here. I truly believe there is no better way to experience a country or area than by moto. You can smell the different scents as you pass through them, feel the spray from the waterfall or the change in temperature from the sun to the shade...you have to be aware of the surface of the road...all things that heighten ones awareness and experience.

If you ride, I am only preaching to the choir...if you don't ride, I am sorry....I wish you could experience that things I do....

Perhaps a bicycle...that is even more in touch with where you are as you feel the strain of the uphill and exhileration of the downhill....


Enjoy your travels even if they are short...the post office, the store, the dog walk...all so very good.

ManyWheelsBri