Vacation

I just got back from my first monthly vacation. I went to Subsurro, a Caribbean Costal town right on the border between Panama and Colombia. It was fantastic. You can only get their through 2 boat rides; the first is two hours in a speed boat and the second s 15 minutes in a canoe. There are, obviously, no cars and very little actually going on. However, there is a beach called La Miel on the Panamanian side of the border that is probably the closest thing to the Corona commercials that I have seen in real life. I didn’t do much read and walk along the coast. The rocks here are covered in these tine pockets that look like the result of critters burrowing themselves a home. Each of these pockets is then lined with ring sharp enough to cut off ones toe. Needless to say, exploring the coast was a bit more difficult than I imagined. But it just made the beer and fried fish in a hammock afterwards all the better.

I stayed in this cabin owned by this Bogota couple who have this house that is incredible. It is practically all screen and almost completely open. The upstairs consists of an I-shaped walkway that is big enough to have an art studio on one end and an office on the other. Their desire was to let nature in without actually letting it in. They surly accomplished this with the three stories of screened in windows and almost no internal walls. It is great.

On the way home, we stopped by this group of Colombians finishing out of a wooden canoe that looked like it was ridden by pochahantsus (sp). They used nothing but fisinhg line...no pole, no stick, nothing, so it looked like they werent pulling anything in until the huge fish at the end came flopping into their boat. The drivier of our boat, just pulled up along side the canoe and everyone in the boat just started buying fish driectly frfom the fishermen. Talk about fresh!

I didn’t take too many pictures because my camera is running out of batteries. Here are a few though