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Central America Go Abroad! Panama Travel

Panama City: since I was in the area...

A relatively short distance from San Diego (just a few small countries south of Mexico) lies Panama, the final Central American nation before you hit South America. Yet, for a ...

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Manchester: "No affiliation with anybody in Panama"

On Monday (May 9) the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists published a database of almost 214,000 offshore entities created in tax and secrecy havens by a Panama law firm, Mossack ...

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Salvadoran grower visits Bird Rock Coffee

Local coffee enthusiasts got a rare glimpse into the supply side of specialty coffee when a farmer from El Salvador paid a visit to Bird Rock Coffee Roasters for a ...

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Wrong in Playa Flamingo

Never in my life had I imagined myself on a catamaran. Every time I pictured one, I thought of shirtless fraternity brothers and blonde girls in bikinis. I imagined a ...

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Radio free Roatán

If life hands you lemons...go buy a radio station in paradise. Keith Miller discovered a few months ago that the shrinking local radio industry that had employed him for 25 years had shrunk him out ...

November 5, 2014

Central America Nicaragua Off the Beaten Path Outdoors Travel

Diving at Big Corn Island, Nicaragua

A vertical sign written out in white seashells stated we had reached the dive shop destination. It was with some reluctance that I shuffled up to the two-story weatherbeaten building. My last resort dive had ...

July 25, 2014

Central America Nicaragua On the Cheap Travel

April 22, 2014

Granada, Nicaragua: Central America on the cheap

Nicaragua may be one of the continent's last untarnished jewels that hasn't been flooded with foreign tourism. Lying just to the north of Costa Rica, it can be managed on an extremely low budget. Getting ...

Central America Costa Rica Off the Beaten Path Sports Travel

January 7, 2014

Bullfight in Zapote (video)

Even from the bleachers, a safe distance from the corral, the bull looked dangerously close. A sea of young men surrounded the bull, and every time the animal flinched, waves of contestants rippled away in ...

Central America El Salvador Misadventures Travel

December 14, 2013

Playa El Espino, El Salvador

Call me a spoiled Southern Californian, but until I visited Playa El Espino I had never been forced to walk through a herd of milling cattle (left) to get to the ocean. This small fishing ...

Central America Costa Rica Misadventures Must-see Travel

October 26, 2013

Apocalypse Now, Tico-style

“Never get out of the boat. Unless you were going all the way. Kurtz got off the boat.” ~ Captain Benjamin L. Willard, Apocalypse Now So there we were staring at the glossy brochure deciding ...

Beaches Central America Panama Travel

September 17, 2013

Bocas del Toro, Panama

A chill ran down my spine as we passed a burnt-out fuselage that sat rusting in the front yard of a home near the exit gate of the Bocas del Toro airport (left). It made ...

Central America Nicaragua On the Cheap Travel Wildlife

July 18, 2013

Mesmerizing Ometepe

Approaching the island of Ometepe is a bit foreboding. As the ferry moves nearer and nearer, it's too easy to invoke movie images of Jurassic Park or King Kong. The tops of the two volcanoes ...

Central America news & stories

Panama City: since I was in the area...

Manchester: "No affiliation with anybody in Panama"

Salvadoran grower visits Bird Rock Coffee

Wrong in Playa Flamingo

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