Louise and I lucked out on our bus tickets - we got the front seats, top tier of a double decker bus….now this is the way to travel….one seat, one bum, is my goal so this was waaay over the top and made me very very happy. Sad for Louise, she was only going a few hours and I left her half way between David and Panama city – just left her at the one and only stop the bus makes on that route – she headed south for her last week in Panama &...

  It's cold in Boquete, and very very beautiful. the sun shines during rainfall over the volcano, the wind blows hot and the weather changes by the minute. Bizarro weather - very difficult to dress for the day. Just a few miles down the road it is very hot and very dry - up here in the mountains, green and lush and cold. Today is Saturday and many of the idigenous people come in from the countryside where they still live very simple lives - some of them ...

After Costa Rica Louise and I headed to the town of Boquete. It has been deemed a retirement haven – voted the world's best place to retire by many publications and has been forefront on the expat radar for a number of years. Panama’s very generous 'Pensionada" program allows for expats who have a small minimum guaranteed income to apply for a special status which grants them the ability to live in Panama full time, and receive the benefits o...

Taxi to Puerto Viejo, minibus with 4 Danes and two Israilis to the border.....walk from Costa Rica across a very rickety bridge at Sixalo into Panama - no muss, no fuss....    It definitely was quicker and easier than our previous crossing at the much bigger crossing. We decided to splurge and do they minibus route - $30 bucks for the journey rather than bus it to the border and then bus it to Almirante. the rest of the gang were doing a few days trip to Boc...

hi everybody - quick check in. I am writing this from the lobby of a hotel in david panama - near the costa rica border (1.5 hours) kind of stuck here for a few hours as we thought we could take a early morning bus to costa rica but ...got up real early, off to the station to get the 8 am bus.....already sold out so here we sit waiting for the noon bus - takes about 9 hours to san jose which I hope includes the reputed two to three hours walking back and forth ...