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Time and the hour, going thru the same thing again, in your actual Panama City, right by your actual Canal...and trying to take the mind back to where the little note book says I last blogged...scrambled notes from odd opportunities along the road, when passions were high, death just a shot away, all the senses attuned to the present, head full of ideas, heart full of fear, love, scent of roses..whatever...now trying to interpret not only the writing but the sense also...<br />So, out of Domenical and just drifting without any rush, south towards the end of Costa Rico...dense, green impenetrable jungle to the left, towering giants, draped in lianas and creepers, brilliant flowers, masses of insects, butterflies, birds and sure as sure, deep inside, the animals whose calls indicate many, very sharp teeth...on the right side the rugged coastline occasionally glimpsed thru the palms...some BIG developments going on here as well, extensive properties, the gated estates, the mega private properties...same old, same old...

Which Canal?

Bill Shum
2006-03-24 22:01:42

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angles of glistening silver corrugated iron over brilliant blue steel beams and girders...lower down, the circular curved office buildings in burnt orange are half finished....inside, of course, the usual squalid, chaotic mayhem as usual.

For the first time I'm feeling really good on border xing, I had no real expectatrions of Panama but it feels good, much the same as CR but this is a fabulous, concrete, 4 lane, grade separated, bitumen covered highway...most of the cars are newish and the cops wave us thru'...we pull up after a while at a big american style shopping mall, its nearly 10 am and in the whole place there are 5 people. 2 guards outside the 2 banks, both closed, one chica at a coffee stall, the only thing open in the food court!, she shares our lack of interest in the greasy left-overs that make up her food offerings, I don't think the bain-marie has been fired up this morning!...
Onwards and upwards....up into the singing mountains, in fact, its just like that!...something out of Heidi or whatever it was, this tres cute little town of Boquete, as the name suggests (bouquet?)its flower town, also strawberries, lots of coffee (coz its at about 1500 m, perfect for coffee growing) but its like a little village in the Austrian alps, also mega property developments, vast estates for residential development, many estate agents, all in english!,...We stay in a pension, more like a chalet, nice room and , never thought >I'd be wanting it, hot water!!...the garden is full of flowers and greenery. Our timing was perfect, just after we moved our stuff from the bikes to the room, the skies opened up...we thought we'd seen rain but man, this was even heavier!..plus lightening striking all over the yard, cracks of thunder making us jump, rolling thunder across the whole valley, Luckily I enjoy a good storm, and soo much better thabn previously when we've been stuck in it on the road! However, it ...