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January 31, 2010
Boquete: Two Excellent Weeks In The Mountains of Panama
A few of you have mentioned that we've been posting rather sparsely the past couple of weeks.
So, I thought I would summarize the past couple of weeks in Boquete.
(This is a long post, but I've included lots of pictures. This should help if you like to read by skimming. 
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Carrie and I have had two wonderful weeks here in Boquete, and we've really enjoyed our time here in Chiriqui Province, Panama.
(In case you missed it, I did talk about our wonderful day at the beach at Las Olas/Playa Barqueta.)
Before heading to Florida, David and Cora had dinner for their guests/renters.
The dinner was for Nick and Joyce, friends of David and Cora's, to celebrate their 28th wedding anniversary.
The next day, we drove David (day-vid) and Cora to the airport in David (dah-veed).
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January 30, 2010
Bugs in Boquete: Panamanian Bugs and Critters
We had a blast making this video about Panama's Bugs and critters.
It's a bit of a tribute to Steve Irwin and really was just done in silliness.
Hope you enjoy seeing the bugs and critters that we discovered in Boquete, Panama.
It's all a bunch of silliness, really.
January 28, 2010
Playa Las Olas and La Barqueta: A Day at Panama's Beach
Getting to the beach at Playa Barqueta (or) Playa Las Olas, Panama is relatively straight-forward (for a place that doesn't really have streets labeled that well).
You take the road from the Panamerican Highway into David that would take you to the David airport, and then follow the signs to las Olas.
(There are signs to Las Olas all the way, but in David, the sign and the turn is easy to miss. Heading to the airport, you take a right at the private Catholic School for boys - a 3 story building at a non-descript intersection before the turn to the airport), and then follow the road.
Las Olas/Playa Barqueta is a condominium beach resort and hotel which also has some lots and condos for sale right on the beach (from $239,000 to upwards of $400,000).
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January 19, 2010
Podcast #5: The Northern Part of Central America
In this podcast, we cover about 7 weeks of travel, from the time we left Granada, Nicaragua, early in December, through today, January 18.
Download the travel podcast MP3 here
We cover our travels through places and experiences like:
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January 15, 2010
Will Smith On Talent And Being "Realistic"
Will Smith is one of my favorite people.
He seems to truly practice what he preaches.
Two of the philosophies I hear him saying in this video that I really love:
Talent is overrated. Skill is being willing working at something until you're either really good at it, or you die getting good at it.
Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity.
January 14, 2010
Speaking Three Languages
There's a joke that goes around quite frequently:
What do you call someone who speaks three languages?
Trilingual
What do you call someone who speaks two languages?
Bilingual
What do you call someone who speaks one language?
American.
There are lots of people in Boquete who move there from the United States. These are people who have had homes and have moved their entire lives to Boquete and have lived here for years. (I'm not talking about newcomers.)
January 11, 2010
How We've Spent The Last Few Days
There's not much newsworthy to report when you spend a few days in a hotel in Costa Rica, working on a computer and talking on the phone
(We use Skype for most of our calling - Carrie's actually on the phone with the hotel lobby in this photo).
But I think it's important to post here too about the work we do.
Alongside all of the cool things we get to do, and places we get to go, we also do spend a fair amount of time working.
So, we've spent a few days at the Adventure Inn hotel, not really going on any adventures in Costa Rica.
But the hotel is nice, relatively quiet, and the Internet is good speed (especially compared to the speeds we've experienced in many parts of Central America).
That means that this is a good time and place for us to be working.
January 04, 2010
Video: Monkeys At The Mayan Ruins of Tikal
This short video of spider monkeys (monkeying around) was taken on Dec. 15 when we visited the Mayan Ruins at Tikal, Guatemala.
Watch as the adult monkey leaps out and grabs a branch so that the baby spider monkey can crawl across it's back to the other tree.
January 02, 2010
Posts you may have missed
I just wanted to let all of you know that we updated our site with some posts that we accidentally missed before. But, we dated these posts on the day the event took place, so you might miss them if you don't look. We wouldn't want that to happen!
Please check them out. Here are direct links (or you can scroll through the old posts to find them as well).
Volcan Pacaya, near Antigua, Guatemala (Lava Roasted Marshmallows Anyone>)
Hurry Up and Wait
3 City Boat Tour around Lake Atitlan, Guatemala
The Most Terrifying Ride of my Life (so far)
Chichicastenango on Market Day (AKA: We ARE the giants from the north)
We also updated many of our older posts with pictures if you want to take a look at some really amazing pictures. Ones like this:
Happy New Year!
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