4 Months in Colombia

After a brief inconvenient interrogation by undercover drug police, I boarded a flight to Panama. Panama City was perhaps my biggest surprise. It exceeded my expectations in almost every way…well not so much exceeded my expectations, more completely discredited my previous perceptions. I had imagined a sort of drab and dusty city with a brownish hue…oh and a big unsightly canal. However Panama City was a bright, clear city with an almost azure hue and a canal that is a feat of incredible engineering.

As I approached from the sky, the towering buildings looking onto the sea fostered memories of the Miami skyline I had seen almost 3 months before. It was dark and all the lights reflected on to the water. It’s difficult to get a true picture of a city at night – especially from the sky, meaning the taxi ride from the airport threw up even more…

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