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…
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…
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…