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Why We Will Be Driving Through Mexico for the Next Year: A Road Trip Series

Our big white van for our trip to MexicoThe Mexican border agent took a quick look at our over-sized van and motioned me to pull over to a special inspection area.  Then, he asked me to open the rear doors.  What he saw next was a cargo area so fully stuffed that you would have a difficult time adding a tennis ball.

“I’m sorry, senor,” he said, “you either have to unpack the van to let us see what you have in all those boxes, or go to another point of entry where they have an x-ray machine.”  Given...

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About Sloths In Panama

A couple months ago someone told us they saw a Sloth across the street in the woods. OK... Cool; I've  never seen one. Well, a week ago while walking our dogs we saw one hugging a tree about ten feet off the ground.
 
Yesterday (again walking the dogs) a man was standing still looking up into the trees and voila......if we looked hard and long we saw a Sloth all curled up on a fairly small branch at least 40 feet up.  The guy said he saw it at the same place...

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Park Eden In El Valle de Anton Panama Is Aptly Named

For the final stretch, we followed the blue signs to Park Eden from the main road.  The way was unpaved and bumpy, with rocks smoothed over by frequent travel, slowing us to peer into the gates and gardens of well-kept El Valle de Anton homes and jostling us so we were forced to look up at the handsome ridges of the caldera that were thick with riotous jungle.  If I were a Victorian British memsahib arriving to the cooler regions of the hill stations, the grounds...

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