It was so amazing to share this exceptional place called the Azuero Peninsula with our good friends, Kristin and Ondra, who we met while living in Prague in 2008. And...since we were not catering to an attention-demanding wild cat baby this time, it also seemed like a great opportunity to strap on our Panamanian sea legs and take a fishing boat…
After a night in Panama City due to circumstance not desire, our friend Carol picked us up (in a car!) from our hotel to whisk us to our next destination of Valle de Antón, two hours away. The “Valley” is a pueblo tucked inside the heart of an ancient crater and surrounded by mountains and lush cloud forest. Because of…
We live with the motto that, one can choose to be blind to the world, or to be an adventurer in search of its treasure. And, although we do believe in taking all necessary and proper safety precautions during this pandemic, we were not going to let COVID keep us from living and experiencing our nomadic lives. So we adapted. We…
After a 16-hour red eye with two layovers from Vegas (hey, it was free!), it seemed fitting that on our three-year nomadaversary we were welcoming a new country…what would be our home for the next three months (although as Americans, we do get six months on arrival). Heading due south from Miami, one of most unfamiliar things about flying into…
For us, 10 days in Boquete (Bo-ket-tay) felt about right and it was a good place to switch out our flip flops for our hiking shoes. This highly livable town of around 25,000 is tucked into the highlands along the mountainous spine of Panama and is known for a cool, fresh climate, rich soil, remarkable coffee, buckets of natural surroundings,…
We knew if we wanted to catch a glimpse of the sparkling aquamarine Caribbean in Panama, we’d have to head to the north coast. We chose Bocas del Toro. And yes, the Caribbean is on the north, not the east side of Panama. This is a stark and slightly trippy realization we only laughingly really processed when we got to…
Santa Fe, founded by the Spanish in 1557, is definitely off the beaten path for most foreign travelers and according to the guidebook, is “like Boquete 20 years ago” (before the white people invasion?) We really enjoyed Santa Fe. For us, it felt like a little slice of the interior of Hawaii… mountainous, exuding lushness, deliciously pure and cool air,…
After nine weeks of luxury in a comfy orthopedic bed, stocked kitchen and hot shower, we figured we were due a little roughing it. So, from Bucaro, we had the hosts from our housesit drop us off an hour away at the Isla Cañas dock to head out to a very long ocean spit for a chance to see sea…
