Monday, July 27, 2009

I might just live here forever!

My first travel destination is Santa Catalina which is becoming known as one of the best surf destinations in Central America. "Destination" might be a stretch of a descriptive word as Santa Catalina is pretty far from anything (it's about 7 hours from Panama City) and really is just a few restaurants, a handful of hostals and a bunch of places to rent surf boards. In other words, it's just about perfect. No destination resorts or fancy cars or night clubs, just a really quiet town with extremely nice people, and incredibly beautiful beaches with hardly anyone on them...and some great surfing to boot. There are a lot of people who come here and either end up coming back again and again, or sometimes just stay for a very long while. We'll see how long Santa Catalina keeps it hold over me! Here are a few pics from my first day (when a friend of a friend from Bolivia, Josefina, was traveling with me) and my first attempts at surfing. I managed to stand up a couple of times and get a sweet sunburn. Today (my second day) was a little more successful (on both fronts, especially the standing up on the board front).

PS. I'm at an internet cafe that is a 3km walk out of town or so. There also is no cell phone reception and everything is quiet by 10pm. This isn't a place for partiers, but it's a perfect place relax and learn to surf!


5 comments:

Dave said...

What a nice beach, and so close to the northern hemisphere!
Thanks for the great posts. Dad

Loren said...

Thanks for reading Dad!

Courtney said...

Wow, that looks beautiful!!! But you can't stay there forever cause you have to come to Boquete!! :)

Loren said...

En eso estoy trabajando amiga mia, te juro.

Pam said...

Love your posts. Looks like you are having fun in the sun. Mom