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Chronicling Travel

When one returns from a wonderful trip, there are lots of memories that will stay for a life time. Then there are the other memories, the stories that get lost when recounting the adventure for family and friends, and after telling more or less the same account of the adventure, get lost even to yourself. So has been so many of my adventures; if it didn't make it to the blog*, it sometimes just slips away.

Since travelling with Della, she's instituted a great new travelling habit, one that I plan to implement on whatever adventure I am on from here on out: chronicling. At the end of each day, we record what we did that day. It's amazing how even little notes about the day can remind you of some story or adventure that didn't make it from short term memory to long term.

Here's a couple examples from this latest Panama trip (augmented with photos of course):

Day 8: Wednesday 20th
- pancakes
- awesome bike adventure, "¡somos los batidos!"
- geocache, binocs, Trump tower, threw pennies in fountain
- empenadas
- taxi to parque metripolitano (opted out of paying, walked short trail then into long walk home)
- long walk home (jugglers, Della's scary neighborhood, turned down ride from cops, cheap taxi home)
- Batidos! and park
- Dinner @ Mac n Cheese place (Tapas) Fue delicioso
- Evening walk through pleasant neighborhoods

Day 6: Monday 18th
- Eaten by bugs, poor sleep, hot, buggy, kind of miserable, full of bites
- We like fry bread!
- Ate ceviche in grass...Della tried it!
- Our dude rode us across in his boat
- Bussed to Porobello (tiny internet place)
- Bussed to Colon (walked to train station, didn't get shot :)!)
- Train w/ 27 Frenchies...oui oui!
- Della saw a crocodile (or 2!)
- Awesome train ride
- Haggled w/ cab driver
- Found awesome hostel (Luna Castle)
- Crazy ass rain shower
- Cheap ass dinner
- Wren snored

As you can see, it pretty much covers the bases, sometimes a little too much. But having this record will be great in 25 years when we head down to Panama again. After all, it will be very important to remember "Somos los Batidos!"

(Note: Della has been doing her own blogging about our trip and it is totally worth checking out. But please pretend all the photos for this post weren't stolen from there. Thanks!)

Saturday December 7 2013

File under: travel, Panama

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on Sat 07th Dec, 2013 11:05 pm CST Mom said:
somos los batidos! We are the milkshakes??? Yes, may you be looking back on this in 25 years together and smiling.
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