When I arrived in miramar, went immediately to the dock and talked to people. Jokingly told me price was $1500. I played easy, innocently relying in their kindness. Usually works and gives me a time to analyze in my head the truth and values. Two boats, leaving different time and different location. Finally grabbed on to the price. $25 for Carti where San blas is.
This time I did my careful shopping and assessing every option possible because once I get stuck in the middle I am vulnerable to whatever price they call for lodging and food by kuna or high price by the captains of lanchas.
I found a brazillio s boat. $50 for estupo island which is a lot closer to puerto obaldia. They were located in other dock where Chinese grocery store is at. It's name is ocean king. It was tiny, not only the boAt but also the living spsce where I will be stuck for six days. When I saw the map distances, price and time all made sense. $50 for getting to estupo is something that many travelers do jot know and ends up paying $550. Of course thAt comes with food and lodging but both boats go to the same locations, visiting all the cool islands.
At the end I chose my alternate option, gnu lack of desire for world class beautiful beaches said I will explore panama more and take the plane to to puerto obaldia which takes one hour and $90. Price on website was misleading compare to price upon purchase. This system I am used to, don't like, but not attached enough to bring me sudden anger. Letting go has grown in me.
Overall I will get to colombia two weeks later than I wanted. Because plane schedule is booked out for two weeks. If I had done more thorough research upon arriving panama would have sufficed.
Upside is that I got to have some unforgettable experience.
Took 3 hours of espanol lesson between two days. Stayed in Casco Antiguo for one day after saying good bye Nina and meeting Mimi.
I met both Nina and Mimi on CS. Nina had most luxurious home I have seen through my couch surfing experience. It was 15th floor and there were only two units in that floor. Giant three separate living rooms, kitchen, two master bedroom. It was sexy. Her and her husband Michael greeted me. Kind I regretted that I didn't arrive on time because almost skipped to visit Nina for the determination to catch a boat to Colombia.
After deciding that I would fly to frontera, visited Nina in a hurry.
Thy invited me to their dinner and wine. Slowly our backgrounds were peeling one at a time. Most interesting aspect is that Michael is working on the new canal and gave me a valuable lesson about the canal as well as history and future. Later found out he is the head designer for the canal.
New canal will bring half a million per boat.
Nina and I went ancon hill to see the two sides to the city. One is where all big sky scrapers are viewing toward avenida balboa. Other side is where canal is being built next to the original one.
Nina showed me frank Gerry s new museum with its unique design of roof that are separated, not touching each other but block all wind and water from penetrating inside.
We also went to calle causeway here mainland connects to islands. When canal was being built they used the dirt to dig canal for this.
Learned history bout panama how it was a nation created for the canal, taken from Colombia. French and USA involvement.
Said good bye to ninand hung out with Mimi. She was very flirtatious. We talked half time in espanol half in ingles.
Next day I was leaving Casco Antiguo without knowing where I want to go then suddenly someone was shouting my name from behind. I looked back to make sure she wasn't calling someone else. It was Katie someone that I messages a while back from CS, but we were communicating very slowly.
We sat had a coffee and she decided to teach me Tu nai massage. Meet into days. She also told me about electronic music scene in Casco Antiguo so I decided to stay for another two days. Went signed up for Spanish lesson to make my time useful. It was pricy compare to what I was used to paying in Guatemala and Nicaragua but lesson was definitely worth it. Great teacher named Elena.
Learned about promonombres direct and indirect.
Through testing I am early stage for intermediate. Showed me exactly how far I have come and how much more to go to perfect this language.
Partied hard for two days Thursday and Friday. Followed by massage lesson, ended up deciding to stay in Katie a house, had awesome spiritual talk. Many things coincided with things bill said from Guatemala. Katie mentioned a book that steve jobs read before going to India. Told me that we are all one. Later she gave me a vibe like Taylor brooks with depth in yoga, massage, spirituality, compassion, oh and she has a long article written about her in Wikipedia, suing school for a dollar when she was fifteen since then she dropped out. She protested against war in her school and was suspended, then she got media and large organizations help to win.
That made her a real cool person along with her independent work, smoking herb came later.
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