OUR RETIRED ADVENTURE
qUEREMOS VIVIR AL SOL
KSha
Costa Rica is amazing! Beauty abounds.
Panama is "home" for now. Loving life!
South America is next! Columbia here we come.
Costa Rica is amazing! Beauty abounds.
Panama is "home" for now. Loving life!
South America is next! Columbia here we come.
Our last couple of days in Chitre were uneventful, but enjoyable. We reestablished our morning walk routine for most of our time here in Chitre; hitting about 3 miles for a 50 minute trip. The right knee is hanging in there; although tired and sore after walks. A couple of hours recovery at the pool fixes it right up. Moving day was January 6th; with about an hour and fifteen minute drive we packed up the clown car and headed to Beverly--I mean Pedasi. Along the way we just couldn't pass up turning off the highway to see the town of Pocri. We followed the guy on the horse through town, then turned around and enjoyed our 6 minute detour through Pocri. The road was smooth and straight and before we knew it we were slowing down to enter Pedasi. The Nacional Highway 2 runs right through the center of this small town and after about two kilometers you are through town and can be off again. Sha and I were gawking around at the sights as we slowly were driving through town and drove right past our hotel Casa de Campo. Had to drive all the way to the end of town and turned around to get to our hotel about a minute and a half later. This boutique hotel has 7 rooms, a pool, a bar and restaurant. (10 pics) Pedasi, in Sha's words is "adorable." Colorful buildings, and a ton of restaurants from street vendors, to little 5 table places right next to someone's house. The narrow streets don't always allow for parking so we have found that walking is sometimes easier. Speaking of walking, we have continued our routine and have enjoyed exploring the town (sometimes hitting the edges of town before having to turn around). I may have mentioned in the past that Sha and I consider ourselves "beach people"; so you know we have checked out the nearby ones and here's a taste of the first couple we found. (3 beaches, 17 pics.) We've enjoyed our complimentary breakfasts here at Casa de Campo, and have enjoyed trying the different restaurants around town as well. An early favorite is Bohemia, an Italian restaurant and pizzeria. We've had the Summer of Love salad both times we've been there, and two different pizzas. Panamanian pizza is darn good! (Don't get excited Chi-town...it doesn't outrank "our" pizza--but this'll do pig.) Lunarosa was another enjoyable dinner. The entire front of the restaurant was empty when we entered; we almost weren't sure if it was open. We walked toward the back of the restaurant as Sha was calling "Hola" when we heard the music and opened the "back" door to find a cool outdoor seating area and bar. Wonderful flavors in our Tapas choices. Today was a cloudy day...can't remember the last time we experienced that; so we used the late morning to travel about 40 minutes south of us to Playa Venao, a beach community. Playa Venao has a bunch of resorts/hotels that line the beach so it's a different sort of area. Not real easy to just drive up to the beach (as we're sort of used to). It has a "hippy dippy" vibe to it with surf shops, chic little coffee shops and restaurants of the same ilk. We picked a few things out of comfort zone for lunch today at La Quincha. Since we weren't super satisfied with our beach visit, we decided to do our explorer thing and find every road on the way home that headed toward the ocean and take it. Much to my delight and Sha's bewilderment (with moments of sheer terror thrown in for good measure), the clown car survived the return trip home. Some of the following roads we should NOT have been on with this car--had to turn around twice due to the vehicle couldn't handle continuing forward. None of these roads were level or flat. Each of the roads pictured were rock-strewn, rutty and had an steep incline and then decline every 100 meters. Average speed when on these roads was about 3-4 kph (seriously). One of Sha's favorite pictures in the one of the living fence posts...trees, or parts of trees are used as fence posts all over Panama. As the seasons pass, the trees start growing...kind of cool. I hope the 13 pic slideshow gives you some idea of the crazy ride home we had...wouldn't have missed it for the world!! We've got a few more days in Pedasi before we pack up and return to being carless for the last month of our trip. Plenty more to do and see.
I'm going to sign off now and join Sha in our pool for a night swim to cool off before hitting the hay. Talk to you soon. Pura Vida!!
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