Central America

Our Last Country in Central America.
PANAMA.
WE cruised through Costa Rica. It was expensive and we wanted to cover some miles. It was really beautiful though. We felt like we took a little trip back to the states for a couple of days. "South Miami".
WE are now in Panama. As soon as we got done doing all of our paperwork at the border (Costa Rica and Panama have been the smoothest by far) we left the border and it started RAINING, POURING actually. The streets were flooding and we rode around a city that apparentaly had no hotels. (Thank Goodness for Auto Hotels. You know what I am talking about if you have ever been through Mexico or Central America).
WE rode into Panama City Today. By far the largest city we have been in yet and rode across the Panama Canal on our way in. That was cool to ride across and see all the ships waiting to go through.
We are now trying to decide how it get across the Darien Gap. For those who do not know, The Darien Gap is kinda the no mans land between Panama and Columbia. The PanAmerica highway ends in Panama and then there is just Jungle that is almost impassable. No road, full of thiefs and Cartel and
R-O-U-Ss (Ithink of the "Princess Bride" here) So we have decided not to go through it. WE can either get on a boat with our bikes and have a little mini cruise (5-7 Days and the same price as a cruise) or fly into Columbia, about the same price with our bikes and only one day for flying. We did know this before so we are not surprised by the road ending, we are just trying to decide what we want to do.

Paul had a nice talk with the nice police man on the PanAmerica highway. Policeman waves us over to Pull Over.

I think "oh great more money and more acting"

Policeman sticks out his hand "Hola Amigo, Go slow there are many, many cops between here and Panama City"

"Thanks for the tip officer"

We then stopped and checked out his bike and talked a while with him. I wish Cops in the States were this friendly...(sorry Dad)