Our flight back to Los Angeles left Panama city this morning at 8:30am. We weren´t on it. After a few days of serious discussion and talking it over with Tucker we´ve decided to stay in Bocas del Toro, Panama and see if we can make a go of working from down here. A few vitals are being shipped down, like laptops, but other than that we´re out here with pretty much only what we brought with us.

This is something I´ve wanted to do for years, get somewhere cool and not look back. And now that I´m actually doing it, I´m not even sure what I´m feeling. Scared, excited, sick to my stomach from too much street meat. Tired, sunburned. I´m sure I´m driving Jeff insane with my constant mood swings. It´s a testament to his patience that he hasn´t stabbed me to death yet.

In other news, I can´t honestly remember how long we´ve been here so I´m switching from days to just labeling these on the dates they were written. It´s unreal how disconnected you can get down here. Yesterday a girl asked me if she missed New Years and I DIDN´T BLINK AT THE QUESTION. That´s Bocas for you. It´s so laid back and the party scene is so intense here that you could concievably miss New Years thinking that it´s just another night. And since they sell professional grade fireworks to anyone here from stalls on the side of the street, it´s not like a fireworks display would tip you off. There have been fireworks every night we´ve been here.

It´s not that NYE isn´t amateur night here. It´s that there are no amateurs.

Posted by Ben Corman at 8:00 AM

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