The original plan called for a rainforest tour today but it was a lot more expensive than we expected and (after the Quetzal Trail, etc.) we were a little 'rainforested-out' if that's possible. So we went in the total opposite direction and visited a dry-forest (yes that's really a thing). We took a taxi from our hostel to the mouth of the Amador Causeway, which is a long breakwater constructed with earth excavated for the canal. It connects a couple of nearby is...

I'v been slacking a bit on the blog thing so I've got some catching up to do. The past two days were kind of uneventful because we've been moving around a lot. Thursday was the day we started our journey to Panama City, but not before another amazing lunch at Antojitos (where I ate twice as much as any man should) and a tour of a major coffee plantation. Souvenir tiles and a memorial invitation were involved, but you'll have to hear that story in person :) We hav...

So it turns out that the late-night AC/DC I was enjoying before bed was merely a precursor to an excruciating evening of BLARING music and drunken stupidity. A group of morons decided to wake me and the rest of the planet up at around 2AM and could not be silenced until nearly six in the morning. A whole lot of us were furious but multiple trips to reception and screaming down the halls did absolutely nothing to dissuade the aforementioned morons from acting like...

Yesterday was one of those days that makes you step back and say, "I can NOT WAIT for the new system!" The Kingdom Hall was a 12 minute walk from our apartment, and the sun was already beating down pretty hard by the time we got there at 9:15. There was a pretty big crowd and the Hall filled quickly, so I was preparing to drown in a pool of my own sweat before the Watchtower study started. Happily, while there wasn't any AC, there were ten fans running all the ti...

The weather man wasn't too far off today: we got some rain, some clouds, and a few fantastic but oh-so-short minutes of blistering sunshine. Joe played chef and made us all some egg and bacon sandwiches for breakfast while I pried myself from bed. Getting up before 9AM on vacation just feels wrong but peer pressure is a powerful thing. By the time I'd finished my sandwich everyone else was ready to go so they ventured out in pursuit of a pineapple while I took my...