The Rants of Issachar
Thursday, March 24, 2005
What a day yesterday was...
We woke up at 4:30am thanks to the alarm on Dad's watch. The hotel didn't actually bother calling us with our 4:30 wakeup call. I wonder if they called some other room...
We took the bus out to the local airport with the same taxi driver as the day before. Taxi's outside the hotel are way too expensive, but you really don't want to be wandering around looking for the cheapest deal when you've got a plane to catch. It turned out that the airport people are not as anal about luggage weight as we'd heard. You're apparently limited to 25lbs weight including your carry-on and some they don't let you share the weight between you. But no eyebrows raised when Dad was half a pound over and I was a pound and a half under...
The flight was one one of those rectangular planes with only 3 seats across, and it was pretty noisy. We arrived at the airport and weren't mobbed by taxi drivers, which has to be a first. We opted to walk the three blocks to Hotel Angela and checked ourselves in and had breakfast. Right after breakfast we headed out for a boat tour of the islands with stops for snorkling and a stop at red frog beach. (Yes they have little red frogs there). It was hot & sunny and exactly what you want in the Carribean. Back to the hotel for a break and then out to a place that had happy hour with the other two people on our boat tour. One was a New Yorker and the other was from San Jose in Costa Rica.
Unfortunately something hit me part way through the evening. (No, it wasn't too much booze). I don't know if I ate something bad (can't think what it could have been) or if it was just heatstroke, but I was up more than a few times in the night feeling lousy. I don't have a thermometer, but I'm pretty sure I had a fever or something. I shouldn't go from sweating to shivering and back that fast. I'm still feeling drained today, but fortunately it's nothing like the 3 days of torment I had in Indonesia a few years ago. It's also clouded over today, so Dad didn't go on another boat tour. It looks like most of the tourists around here are just walking around town looking at souvenirs or sitting in bars or internet cafes. Today has not been a good day so far. I'm hoping I'll be good to go by tomorow because it's our last full day here. Hopefully we'll have the sun back too.
I guess we'll see. Love you all...
We woke up at 4:30am thanks to the alarm on Dad's watch. The hotel didn't actually bother calling us with our 4:30 wakeup call. I wonder if they called some other room...
We took the bus out to the local airport with the same taxi driver as the day before. Taxi's outside the hotel are way too expensive, but you really don't want to be wandering around looking for the cheapest deal when you've got a plane to catch. It turned out that the airport people are not as anal about luggage weight as we'd heard. You're apparently limited to 25lbs weight including your carry-on and some they don't let you share the weight between you. But no eyebrows raised when Dad was half a pound over and I was a pound and a half under...
The flight was one one of those rectangular planes with only 3 seats across, and it was pretty noisy. We arrived at the airport and weren't mobbed by taxi drivers, which has to be a first. We opted to walk the three blocks to Hotel Angela and checked ourselves in and had breakfast. Right after breakfast we headed out for a boat tour of the islands with stops for snorkling and a stop at red frog beach. (Yes they have little red frogs there). It was hot & sunny and exactly what you want in the Carribean. Back to the hotel for a break and then out to a place that had happy hour with the other two people on our boat tour. One was a New Yorker and the other was from San Jose in Costa Rica.
Unfortunately something hit me part way through the evening. (No, it wasn't too much booze). I don't know if I ate something bad (can't think what it could have been) or if it was just heatstroke, but I was up more than a few times in the night feeling lousy. I don't have a thermometer, but I'm pretty sure I had a fever or something. I shouldn't go from sweating to shivering and back that fast. I'm still feeling drained today, but fortunately it's nothing like the 3 days of torment I had in Indonesia a few years ago. It's also clouded over today, so Dad didn't go on another boat tour. It looks like most of the tourists around here are just walking around town looking at souvenirs or sitting in bars or internet cafes. Today has not been a good day so far. I'm hoping I'll be good to go by tomorow because it's our last full day here. Hopefully we'll have the sun back too.
I guess we'll see. Love you all...
1 Comments:
Posted by: 
westcoastloonIt has been a long time. We should grab a coffee when you get back, you can tell me all your stories.
Funny that you mentioned Mindhead. . .I tried to explain that to someone the other day and they just didn't get it.
I did a quick search for photos of Bocas Del Toro and I'm trying really hard not to die of jealousy.
Feel better,
~Claire
westcoastloonIt has been a long time. We should grab a coffee when you get back, you can tell me all your stories.Funny that you mentioned Mindhead. . .I tried to explain that to someone the other day and they just didn't get it.
I did a quick search for photos of Bocas Del Toro and I'm trying really hard not to die of jealousy.
Feel better,
~Claire
