March 23, 2019 Brendan’s birthday! Unfortunately, it wasn’t as jammed packed with fun activities as mine because this fell on a travel day for us. We had to leave Panama and make our way back to Costa Rica. We packed up from the beautiful over-the-water house and made our way to the water taxi where…
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Day 47 – Bocas del Toro, Panama
March 22, 2019 Our last full day in Panama together with Mike and Kellee. Tony and Lana offered to take us out on their boat for the afternoon which was really awesome. We went to a floating island bar that had great drinks and tacos. In the middle of pristine waters, we all hung out…
Day 46 – Bocas del Toro, Panama
March 21, 2019 Today we decided to have a rest day and take it easy. We headed to town on the 11am water taxi and stopped by the dive shop where Tony generously let us borrow his truck. We took the truck to ‘Skullys’ a cool hostel on the beach that had a pool. We…
Day 45 – Bocas del Toro, Panama
March 20, 2019 Day 45 (3/20/19) Another day waking up in paradise. The mosquitos were the only thing that reminded us that sometimes paradise comes at a price. Each night we had battles with massive amounts of mosquitos. There was no way to keep them out of the house even with bug nets, or our…
Day 44 – Bocas del Toro, Panama
March 19, 2019 Today we went out for our second day of diving to finish our PADI open water dive certificates. We did two more dives, the last one being another shipwreck. This was our deepest dive going down to 60 meters where we could swim underneath the ship. It was super awesome. We were…
Day 43 – Bocas del Toro, Panama
March 18, 2019 Today was my birthday and I couldn’t imagine a better way to spend it. I watched a beautiful sunrise over the water, and Mike and Kellee were very sweet and made some birthday brownies. We took the 11am water taxi into town and headed to the dive shop. Taylor opted out of…
Day 42 – Bocas del Toro, Panama
March 17, 2019 Today we woke up and spent the morning hanging out and watching all the fish swim around the house. A free water taxi is offered to go to town every day at 11am and return at 2pm. We took the taxi into town and explored some more and got some pizza to…
Day 41 – Bocas del Toro, Panama
March 16, 2019 Today we packed our stuff from hostel Mamallenas, and I went to greet my friends Mike and Kellee at the little airport in Bocas. It was super exciting to have friends come and visit us on our journey. They got to town and we explored a little and got some groceries and…
Day 40 – Bocas del Toro, Panama
March 15, 2019 Today was our first full day in the beautiful Bocas del Toro, Panama. We walked around the little town and explored. We found a nice beach (or so we thought) and hung out for a while. What we didn’t realize at the time was while at that beach, we were literally almost…
Day 38-39, Guatemala to Panama
March 13-14th, 2019 Today we start our journey to Panama where we are meeting my friends from WA for the week. We got up early to catch an 8am shuttle from San Pedro, GT to Guatemala City where we fly out of. Being nervous of any road delays, we gave ourselves ample time to get…