Timely Escape
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Though the plane was almost 2 hours late leaving Toronto I still managed to get out of town before another sizeable snowfall hit the city.
Folks back home are digging out while I am digging the heatBaca selengkapnya
Though the plane was almost 2 hours late leaving Toronto I still managed to get out of town before another sizeable snowfall hit the city.
Folks back home are digging out while I am digging the heatBaca selengkapnya
As a mid continental land lubber, the sea fascinates me. The cycle of the waves, the tides and the creatures that thrive here are all foreign to my upbringing and existence back in Toronto.
I haveBaca selengkapnya
The gringos are subtly discouraged from taking local buses and as a result taxi fares are super expensive. The proprietor at the Tamarindo hotel wrote me a note in Spanish that helped get me on theBaca selengkapnya
For a full week visitors from Toronto and I lived the good life at Villa Sol Resort in Playa Hermosa. It is located on the Pacific coast an hour’s drive north of Tamarindo . The unit we stayed inBaca selengkapnya
As my northern visitors were winging their way back to the Great White North I was taking a bus then a series of shuttles across Costa Rica to the Caribbean coast.
The trek took about 12 hours. AfterBaca selengkapnya
Last Saturday I got picked up at my bed and breakfast (Physis) at 5:50 A.M. by a shuttle company to take me from Puerto Viejo in Costa Rica to Bocas del Toro in Panama. The first van ride took a groupBaca selengkapnya
A young local woman who was on my bus got off the bus where I did, somewhere on the sandy coastal road at Bluff Beach. She didn’t speak English but waved me to follow her through a gate.
I hadBaca selengkapnya
My yoga friends were long gone when I caught the bus to Bocas Town. There I waited half an hour to catch my boat-bus back to Almirante. Being on a bigger boat and on much calmer water, the return tripBaca selengkapnya
What an interesting place this is - so completely different from the beach side experience of Bocas del Toro. With an elevation of 1200 m above sea level, it is noticeably cooler than the coast butBaca selengkapnya
The journey actually went like clockwork but my poor butt ached by the end of the day.
My BnB hosts had my empanada breakfast ready earlier than usual so that I could make the 9:00 bus from Boquete toBaca selengkapnya