Some wild life in Costa Rica

 Here is some wild life in Costa Rica.  Beautiful birds and funny monkeys, great waterfalls!

In Panama City for a month

 We read that Ecuador was having protests, road blocks and some crime due to the price of gas and groceries.  We have heard since being in Panama the same things are happening in Central America.  We also heard that overlanders trying to cross borders are getting stuck on the road due to the road blocks and protests.  God is Good, we have not run into any of this!  

Clarence and I decided that we are going to ship the car from Panama to Lima Peru to start our adventure in South America.  We will visit Columbia and possibly Ecuador on our way back north after we go to Antarctica.  

We found Alejandro at Overland Embassy here in Panama City.  He is an overlander and his business is shipping vehicles around the world.  So Alejandro got everything set up for our car to be put in a container and shipped around Aug 4th.  We rented a 1 bedroom condo in Panama Pacific just on the other side of the Panama Canal.  We will be here until Aug 7th when we will fly to Lima Peru to stay until car arrives.  It is really nice to have a nice place to call home for a month.  We are out an about doing errands, going to the dentist for annual check up next week, getting organized, eating at some cool restaurants and cooking up the food we have with us.  

Clarence and I are safe and enjoying our adventure!  

Cruise the Panama Canal

After 2 months of traveling it was time for a cut and color. I wasn't real happy with how short my hair cut was but as time has gone by I am sorta liking it.

Yesterday we took a 1/2 day cruise down the Panama Canal. They bused us up the river about 45 mins from the Pacific side to catch the boat and come down through the 3 locks on the pacific side. Very interesting to see this engineering marvel.

We were on a very small ship compared to the huge ships we passed by or shared a lock with.

Going through 3 locks we shared it with a oil tanker. There was a cargo ship that could not fit in the lock with us so it was in the lock next to us. They built a new lock for the very large ships and cruise ships that were not able to do the canal 4 years ago. We saw a liquid natural gas ship and a very long oil tanker in the new lock. When we got back to the Pacific Ocean side there were at least 30 ships waiting their turn to go through the canal. The canal operates 7 days a week/24 hours.