It's Like We Know What We Are Doing

Friday, June 2nd "Are you going to the canal??" That was the first question anyone asked when we announced we were going to Panama.  It makes sense, really.  Panama is really known for the canal. Except for me.  I knew the Panama Canal was a thing .  But I didn't entirely understand what kind of a thing it actually was. The day before our cruise, we spent a day in Panama City.  It rained and we honestly didn't get a full feel for the city.  As much as I will say we can have a great day despite the rain, it's always a lie.  Rain changes everything and makes you hate the world.  But you put on a brave face as long as you can and you try to duck into buildings and take long lunches to wait out mother nature. You might also have to wear a poncho. We ducked out of the rain and into the Panama Canal Museum in the Old Town district of San Felipe of Panama City.  Adele and I had scoped this out a few days earlier as we Ubered it to m...

June 1st, 2017 When Adele and I travel, one of our first pieces of research is the San Pellegrino’s Top 50 Restaurants site.   If a restaurant is on the list, there’s a reason for it to be there.   Whether a restaurant is #5 or #50 doesn’t really matter.   The restaurant is On. The. List.   And i t gives us a place to start in a city . Panama doesn’t have any restaurants on the Top 50 list.   But on the Top 50 Latin America list, Panama’s entry is at #36.   And we were going there for lunch. The post-dining glow. It could be because of the wine. Maito is located a bit off of one of the main drags in Panama.   We spent most of our time in Casco Viejo, so we called an Uber after hiding in the Panama Canal museum during a rainstorm.   We could have taken a train to a bus.   Or we could have taken a bus.   But I’m not great at busses.   And it was $7 to Uber halfway across the city to the restaurant.   It wasn’t...

May 28-30, 2017 I knew I should have paid more attention to what we were doing in Panama.  I mean, I had a general idea of what was going down.  We were staying "in the jungle" for two nights and "at the beach" for four nights.  But I didn't actually take into account what staying "in the jungle" really meant. Before we arrived at the lodge, I updated my status on Facebook.  "I don't know where we're going, but everything will be ok as long as there's WiFi and a hair dryer."  Oh, I was so young back then. Adele found the Jungle Land Floating Resort on TripAdvisor one day.  It checked off all of the boxes.  Going into Panama for the first time, we didn't want to just stay in the city (or beach, as it turned out).  We wanted to see nature and animals.  We wanted to visit the jungle.  With a name like Jungle Land, it seemed like the best option. The cool thing about Jungle Land is that if you stay overnight, a...