Day 1057: Panama City

Maybe its time to stop neglecting my blog.

 

I’ve finally made it to the bottom of Central America, well, there is another thousand miles to the Darien Gap and Columbia but it feels like I’m nearly there. After nearly 3 years, many tortillas, plenty of cervezas, a lot of fun and 30, 000 miles of driving I’m still going. I’ve picked myself up a girlfriend on the way, the beautiful Melissa, who is coming with me and this should hopefully speed my trip along a bit more.

The plan for Panama City is to have a look at the architecture, check out the canal, do a bit of shopping and arrange for the minivan to be shipped across to Columbia in a container. We will follow in a yacht that sails lazily down through the islands of San Blas before reaching Cartagena after 5 days and my penultimate continent. The ship I want to sail on, the Steel Rat, just left which gives us a couple of weeks more here to arrange everything. Hopefully we can find someone to share the container with or the price could be a lot more. Still, I’m expecting to spend nearly a thousand dollars. Lets hope it doesn’t blow up in South America :p

Tags: Container, Cartagena, shipping car, Panama