The coffee tour in Boquete was really good. The place we went to was supposed to be the second best coffee in Panama. When the guy started it he couldn't get a loan to buy the processing machinery so he built it himself using car parts and stuff. Now the banks want to give him loans but he's quite happy using the machines he built. They walked us through the whole process from growing to roasting, grinding and packaging, and we got to sample some coffee. Aloua...

7/2/2011 I'm so over writing this. I feel like home is so close and I don't want to spend too much of the time I have left in front of a computer. But I also want to remember what I've been doing so I'll write but maybe not too much detail. La Fortuna was good, not as good as Monteverde though.The afternoon we arrivedI did a hike to try and view Volcan Arenal, which sometimes you can see sparking and spitting lava, but it was so cloudy we couldn't even see th...