Morning traffic near Santa Catalina


The last couple have months I have really fell into the groove of the latin beat, cruising down from Nicaragua to the Carribean coast of Costa Rica, white water rafting the mighty Pasquares before trekking through the Nicoya Peninsular and settling for a few weeks in Playa Santa Teresa. Jumzi, Catalina and myself rented a beatiful little cabina with barn door windows looking back into a forest full of howler monkeys, and every morning we enjoyed rich Costa Rican coffe before the short skip down to the waves. After my travel compadre Willy split to the US, and James headed back up to Nicaragua, we spontaniously decided to hit the Panamericana highway down South into PANAMA! It was so exciting cruising through the temperate jungle terrain and stopping in at little family owned restraunts by the highway. After heckling through another border crossing and picking up a random Costa Rican surfer heading to Panama City, we cruised into Panama with the windows down and music pumping - I couldn´t beleive I had actually made it to Panama...