Pan Am Bum Rush!

[FLTLNDR]

Oye,
Subscribing - Great TR. Are you renting in Santa Catalina for the next few months? If ever you drive to Panama City you will pass right by my home in San Carlos. I'll be there after pow-season (mid-April); if you are still around stop by for a cerveza y ceviche. The surf will be going off on the Carib side for the next three months more than the Pacific; if you are making trips up there, there is a secure (paid) place to park your rig last stop before Bocas del Toro.

PS: Are you doing this repeatedly? I'd trade my San Carlos for your Jackson Hole one winter and be stoked - Buena leche!

 

[Mr. Leary]

Looking good, Ian!

:beer::lurk:

 

[RMP&O]

Oye,
Subscribing - Great TR. Are you renting in Santa Catalina for the next few months? If ever you drive to Panama City you will pass right by my home in San Carlos. I'll be there after pow-season (mid-April); if you are still around stop by for a cerveza y ceviche. The surf will be going off on the Carib side for the next three months more than the Pacific; if you are making trips up there, there is a secure (paid) place to park your rig last stop before Bocas del Toro.

PS: Are you doing this repeatedly? I'd trade my San Carlos for your Jackson Hole one winter and be stoked - Buena leche!

Hola amigo!!

Thanks for the offer, we may talk more in the future....

I was just in Panama City yesterday. Just a quick (17hr.) trip up there to pick up some guests for a friend of mine at the airport. My friend needed somebody to pick up 3 people at the airport and bring them back here to SC, I volunteered.

Yes I am renting here in SC but by April 1st will be headed north and back to JH, Wyoming.

 

[FLTLNDR]

Hola amigo!!

Thanks for the offer, we may talk more in the future....

No doubt.
I really enjoyed Santa Catalina. You picked a nice spot to settle down for a spell. If you go to Puerto Armuelles please let me know - I'm looking for property out that way to Punta Burica. Adios!

 

[Christian P.]

We are in Santiago right now...I was hoping to stop by but at this point we have to keep pushing to Panama City...! I'll stop later.

bye!

 

[RMP&O]

You probily just past me by....

I am sitting right on the Pan Am in Santiago at a resturant having lunch and using the free wi-fi.

I sent you a pm, sorry if it was not fast enough, I have not hit up the internet in 5 days and don't hit it up all that often.

Check your pm's anyways....

PS; big jazz festival happening in Panama City right now, check it out!

 

[RMP&O]

unbelievably slow to upload pictures here.....so here is just a few.

We took a river trip the other day down the Rio Kate;

 

[RMP&O]

so....made some progress on resizing my pictures last night which allows me to upload them much faster. As a result here are more pictures! Not in any real paticular order.....

Sunset on X-Mas day here in Santa Catalina,

 

[RMP&O]

at me casa....

my buddy Mike showing off his skills on the tube during our Rio Kate float....yes it dumped some serious rain on us!

From Bahia Honda on X-mas day....Bahia Honda is an island north of Catalina. A local dive shop owner takes some 150 kids presents there, I got invited and it was pretty awesome to go.

Myself & Glenn who does this event and owns Coiba Dive Center also on X-Mas day

And more from X-Mas day on Bahia Honda....

 

[RMP&O]

More from Bahia Honda and X-Mas day....

drying laundry Bahia Honda style!

A police man calling home on X-Mas morning at Bahia Honda village

Bahia Honda radio flyer!

recycled trash....

I just got a call from a member of the Panama4x4 Club who just came into town. So logging off to go meet him and have a beer! More pictures to come next time I am online....

 

[RMP&O]

Life here in Panama is going well....

We just had a big full moon party last night. Tracked down a piggie, that alone took us 2 days. Seems all the pigs were sold over the holidays. Any ways, found a pig, dug a pit and cooked it up Hawaiin style. It was a friend Peter & my first time but it turned out great. We fed lot's of people, drank tons of beers/rum and sat around a bonfire under the full moon till late....

Hard to beat this kind of lifestyle!

 

[nctacoma]

r.

I added up my fuel for the trip south.....330gals. to do 4600 miles. Yeah, my Taco gets bad milage but it is well over 5500lbs with gear and I have the power to pass anybody I like when I like!

How do fuel prices in Mexico and Central America compare with current US prices?

 

[FIELDZY]

Hello from Queensland Australia,

just joined to let you know how much I enjoy reading your Trip reports. Just finished reading this one and read your Car build up and 'The Ultimate Road Trip' thread.

Reading your reports makes me feel like i am there! It has really inspired me to one day undertake such an adventure. Being only 22 I have travelled to various countries but never travelled overland. You are truly an inspiration to people like me who one day wish to explore and travel the way you do.

Keep up the fantastic work and have a great time in Santa Catalina.

Eagerley awaiting more updates!!

Cheers,

Adam.

 

[exploreFL]

Dude you are making me miss Santa Catalina! I think I saw some boards on top of your truck, hit that point up for me! The pizza man there has great pizza if he is in, also the portuguese guy has awesome burgers! Enjoy it and keep posting some pics!

 

[RMP&O]

Thanks for the good words guys.....

It is super hot here in Catalina lately. I just been surfing, long walks on the beach and hanging out with friends. Oh and some beer drinking too. And let's not forget fishing.....

Fish ON!

My neighbor is one of the best local fisherman here in Catalina....we go out every couple of weeks. I landed a rather large Wahoo a few trips back. And the boat man speared a HUGE Red Snapper.....not to mention all the tuna we catch. No pics though because they guy with us who took them never gave them to me.

I got to say fresh Yellow Fin for sushi and grilled Wahoo rocks hard!!

Four friends of mine are flying in to Panama in a week. My 38th B-Day is at the end of the month and I have a bar rented for that. Should be fun!


I leave Panama on around the 12-14th of March. If anyone is interested I have a spare seat in my truck for the drive north.....