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On The Road Again

Written by on November 19, 2008 – 3:52 pm30 Comments | 4 Read this
Passport, Vaccination Certificate And On The Road Again

Pass­port, Vac­ci­na­tion Cer­tifi­cate And On The Road Again

As much as I love Canada, I just can’t stand the idea of spend­ing another win­ter here. As much as I like my job, I just can’t teach another minute. As much as I love my nor­mal life, I need some freedom.

We are going traveling.

On Decem­ber 9th, we will fly from Ottawa to Toronto. And then, from Toronto to Newark. We will arrive in Panamá City, Panamá, late at night.

Panamá. Of all places. I didn’t think I would ever go back there.

We don’t have any plans. We are going to pack for a few months. From Panamá City, we plan to go North, to Costa Rica and Nicaragua. We will then find a way to get to South Amer­ica, and to avoid Colom­bia. We should be back in Spring 2009.

I’m keep­ing on blog­ging, of course — what else do you expect? You will get the full story on Panamá tomor­row… mean­while, we have to go to some embassies to beg for visas. That’s the prob­lem with last minute decisions…

Próx­ima Estación: Esper­anza…?

Related arti­cles:

  1. ¿Y Ahora Qué?
  2. Cuidado En Panama
  3. Bor­der Cross­ing — Panamá To Costa Rica
  4. Faces Of Cen­tral America
  5. Bus­ing Around Cen­tral America

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  • Zhu says:

    @Juan Rojas — Thanks for offer­ing advices! Y ben­venido en Canada ;-) I’ll write you an email.

    @SilverNeurotic — Well, I just quit and with­draw my money at the bank, it’s just an impul­sive move.

    @Liz — No prob­lem, I’ll keep an eye open.

    @Priyank — Lucky you, trav­el­ing… again!

    @Annie — No… :-( I actu­ally though of you and we almost bought a NY — San Jose flight. But because of the flight sched­ule, we would have had to spend two days in NY. Prob­lem: we don’t want to carry warm clothes, and freez­ing in NY for two days didn’t sound great. I will make it another time!

    @Gabriel — Yes, we do ;-) I was in Argentina/ Chile/ Brazil in 2002 and I loved it. Although we arrived in Buenos Aires in the mid­dle of the peso cri­sis, peo­ple were so nice…

    @expatraveler — Just can’t take another win­term let’s put it like that.

    @Linguist-in-Waiting — Yep!

    @Froggywoogie — I know, I’m heart-broken :lol:

  • Celine says:

    Wow! More trav­els. How lovely! All the best, and enjoy!

  • Annie says:

    Hey Zhu,

    Not done! Why need warm clothes when you could have bor­rowed from me for cou­ple of days and you would not have to worry about stay.….……of course you are wel­come any­time :)

    I hope bet­ter luck next time! Have a lovely and warm win­ter :)

  • Angela May says:

    Oh, I wish I could go trav­el­ling too!! I will live vic­ar­i­ously through you and read all your blog posts.

  • RennyBA says:

    You really are a glo­be­trot­ter and your plans sounds excit­ing. I’ve never been there, but are glad you promised to keep on blog­ging course then I can fol­low you wher­ever you go?

    How about vis­it­ing us in Nor­way the next time you get the urge of see­ing new places? :-)

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