Tuesday 30 July - Saturday 3 August Sailing San Blas and beyond Silvia, our host at Hostel Wunderbar, dropped us off at Turtle Cay where the SS Wildcard was moored. The boat had been overbooked, due to a miscommunication between Silvia and Captain John who thought that we were a no-show...this was most annoying considering we'd booked and paid a $200 deposit three weeks earlier which Silvia was pocketing and we'd arrived a day earlier in Puerto Lindo to ens...

Tuesday 23 July - Monday 29 July Panama City We departed San Jose at 11pm on the last of our Ticabus legs. The bus pulled up to the Costa Rican border at 3:45am, everyone off the bus to form an orderly queue at the office, whilst bus drives off to the Panama side. After some lastminute border crossing research, we were prepared that we'd have to wait around until 6am for the office to open. 2 hours 15 minutes later the standing contest was declared a draw b...