https://calderescapes.com The Calder's Global Travels Sat, 18 Feb 2023 00:35:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://calderescapes.com/wpcms/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-ce-site-icon-32x32.png https://calderescapes.com 32 32 https://calderescapes.com/posts/san-blas-archipelago-pan/ Wed, 31 May 2017 13:20:18 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=22716    Note:  couldn’t get Google Maps to plot this route so hope the above makes sense as most of it is by boat! May 31, 2017 The next big day had arrived; we were heading back to the Caribbean coast one final time to begin our journey through the San Blas Islands of Panama, leaving […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/last-2-weeks-on-dry-land-panama/ Thu, 18 May 2017 05:10:02 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=22509   May 18th,  2017 So this morning we had to ready Tigger to finally leave ProCars and head to the Caribbean side of the country to drop it off at the Port of Manzanillo near Colon for shipping next week (the 24th). We plan to stay one night at least over on that coast. We […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/we-go-solo-pan/ Thu, 27 Apr 2017 00:29:23 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=22322   Fran’s three weeks in US/Canada April 26th, 2017 I flew into MSP after a short layover in Atlanta and our friend, Kathi, picked me up and I stayed with her until the 29th. The weather here just got cold and I am not a happy camper! Some of our Amazon orders had arrived as […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/el-valle-to-the-big-city-pan/ https://calderescapes.com/posts/el-valle-to-the-big-city-pan/#comments Tue, 18 Apr 2017 06:06:51 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=22198   April 18, 2017 After leaving Nata, we drove straight through to El Valle in Anton Valley. It began to rain before reaching there (which hopefully washed some sea salt off Tigger!) but stopped when we arrived in the town.   El Valle is a small town that sits in an extinct volcano crater at […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/el-valle-to-the-big-city-pan/feed/ 2 https://calderescapes.com/posts/playa-venao-azuero-peninsula-pan/ Tue, 11 Apr 2017 14:31:59 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=22152   April 11, 2017 After packing up and finding Fabian, we hit the road as we had almost 300km to drive today. That’s a super big amount for us these days! Semana Santa is coming up and we wanted to get “parked” before Thursday brings the crowds and hopefully in a place that would not […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/las-lajas-santa-catalina-pan/ Fri, 31 Mar 2017 14:52:27 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=22095   March 31, 2017 We left Norman’s before seven am with the plan of getting to the National Insurance office when it opened at 7:45am (this is required before you renew your vehicle permit [TIP]). We were actually super early but did hit some slow traffic but were still early enough to stop for Egg […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/boquete-pan/ Tue, 21 Mar 2017 15:32:36 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=22015   March 21, 2017   We arrived in Boquete which is only about 40km/25m from Neil’s garage. On the drive you can see Volcán Barú with clouds blowing on and around the top. We had really hoped to be there several days ago, but such is life and timing in Latin America. We arrived at […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/tigger-gets-some-tlc-and-new-shoes-panama/ Thu, 09 Mar 2017 23:35:32 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=21955   March 9th, 2017 As mentioned in the last post we headed straight to the mechanic recommended by Norm and iOverlander upon leaving Bocas. The drive went smoothly; we stopped for a pop at McDonald’s outside David (pronounced “Dahveed”) and got some groceries. This time Tigger started after only a little bit of playing with the […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/getaway-to-bocas-del-torro-islands-pan/ Sun, 05 Mar 2017 17:58:56 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=21891   March 5th, 2017 After dinner we retired early and the next morning pointed Tigger in the direction of the Caribbean coast as maps.me said the drive could take six hours and we wanted to get Tigger parked before dark and catch the water taxi to Isla Colon. The road was in okay shape, a […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/entering-panama/ Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:24:49 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=21794   March 2nd, 2017 Panama is the seventh and final country in our journey through Central America. It is the narrowest and southern most country. It is slightly bigger than Ireland. Panama was discovered by the Spanish in 1501 by de Bastidas & Balboa. Christopher Columbus also stopped here in 1502 on his fourth and […]]]>