Finally, after 12 long days on a sailboat, I´ve arrived in South America! In Panama City, I found a captain sailing to Colombia. The Panamerican highway, which otherwise connects Alaska to the tip of Argentina, meets its demise in the Darien Gap region between Panama and Colombia. Travel here is next to impossible as the area is infested with guerrillas and drug traffickers. The only sane options to South America are by plane or boat. I am on the Tarona, a...