van halen anyone? yeah me neither. but the guys declared the official theme song.
so for a couple of us, the 90 day visas we're on were approaching expiration- or in the case of illegal ben, had already reached that point. so we made our way by bus (never without a little adventure) down and across the panama border for 72 hours last weekend to fix this. summary of the trip: took the 4:30am bus out only to get caught in the next station for 5 hours (strike blocking the roads), we picked up a swiss friend who was traveling alone (patrick, the one you don't recognize), ate great food (and saw multiple signs for tex mex?), saw dolphins and a sting ray, got caught in a torrential downpour or two, found a chicken egg in the ocean, and once again experienced el sol defying the laws of sunscreen and spf's. here are a couple pictures (almost all of which were taken by ben) from the trip. enjoy!
the bridge that made up the border- a little sketch to walk across
dolphin!
the boat ride out to the island of bocas del toro
God's rad creation
and finally, the group (falta ben) at breakfast before saying bye to our swiss friend and heading out to one last beach. complete with the official one arm back, "i'm chillin" pose.
pan-ah-ma-ha!
that sounds like a fun adventure! and a chicken egg in the ocean?! how bizarre!
ReplyDeleteem, you're so cool. dan and i were talking last week about how much we missed you this semester. Your absence was definitely noticed.
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