I don't like it much when a vulture stares at me at the entrance to a church. I don't like it much either when three crows are sitting, all consubstantially trinity-like, on the Catholic's cross at the narthex. Yes, that's right, the…
Ten minutes across some pretty rough waters from the Panamanian village of La Guaira, we found ourselves kindly deposited on the Caribbean island of Isla Grande. The boat pilot didn’t want to take on the larger waves near the reef…
She said: "Ito and Roni are brothers. And since he was born...since Ito was very young...the Virgin comes to him. We call this 'vidente'. The Virgin used to talk to him in the trees. His madre thought he was sick…
This morning, my last in Panama City, Maria Elena and I hiked (well, ok...it is an easy 15 minute walk) up Cerro Ancon for a sunrise view of the city. Not a bad sight. Amazing to me is that, at…
Below, where we looked at the black volcanic sand that covered the Barriles Panama village so long ago, Edna was telling a story about a UFO in the mountains near the volcano... "...we saw one just out there...one afternoon...all…
The Quetzales Trail Panama connects the town of Boquete to the town of Cerro Punta along the edge of the Baru Volcano, the highest mountain in Panama at 11,398 feet. The trail cuts through the cloud forest along the Talamanca…
Miraflores is the name of one of the three locks that form part of the Panama Canal and the name of the small lake that separates these locks from the Pedro Miguel locks upstream. In the Miraflores locks, vessels are…
Wildlife in Panama Plowing into the jungle near the Rio Obispo looking for birds, I immediatly saw a Crimson-bellied woodpecker, a sirystes and a type of trogon showing off a small butterfly he had taken. A green iguana crossed the…
At the top of the island of Isla Grande Colon the French built a lighthouse in 1893. De Lesseps meant the lighthouse to be one of the guiding markers to help ships find the canal and his partner Gustave Eiffel…
These gentlemen were enjoying a Friday evening beer after working on a carnival float for the big festivities next month. I spent the afternoon walking around the Casco Viejo area of Panama City - a World Heritage Site. ##
It is a little difficult to think of more perfect weather : Very warm but not hot, humid but not oppressive, a light breeze off the sea, blue sky with just a few puffy clouds..... An easy walk from Bridge…
There is a memory of the Bounty’s William Bligh in the form of a tree in the Jamaican mountains outside of Kingston. It should be obvious by now that I have a thing for historic travelers. I’m not sure how…
