As always, it’s the people you meet along the way, who make a trip great – and that was true once again during our recent trip to Panama. They included:
– The B&B owner in Bocas Town who went above and beyond the call of duty, sitting down to recommend outing options and biking into town to find a reliable water taxi driver to take us to a neighboring island with a beautiful beach (he hung out playing dominoes with other drivers until we were ready to return.)
– The man at the Visitor’s Center in Boquete who leisurely suggested outing options in the area, arranged a zip-lining adventure for us and smoothed the way with a taxi driver we had hired to drive us three hours to Bocas (the driver spoke little English, we spoke little Spanish, the visitor’s center man gave us his card and said to call at any time if we needed to communicate with the driver).
– The staff at what we thought was the Visitor’s Center in Boquete (it was a real estate office’s “welcome center”) who found us the taxi driver – way beyond the call of duty.
– The young woman from New Jersey working at Bocas Blended, a clever sandwich and drink shop in an old bus, who greeted us warmly upon our return visit to her shop and shared her feta-pesto sauce recipe.
– The young “fire dancer, yoga instructor and masseuse” from Minnesota who volunteered to drive us in her golf cart to her favorite beach – an empty one next to the more well-known and populated Red Frog Beach.
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