Around The World In 80 Waves

Time to push on once more, and this time I am heading into the last country of my Central American oddysey.

I have been pushing to get to Panama to allow myself some time to offload the car, send various things back home or onwards for collection later in my travels.

Originally I was going to put the car on a boat from here to Colombia, but due to time constraints there would be far too much driving involved across the north west of South America with nowhere near enough time for surfing along the way.

You cannot get past the Darien Gap you can see on the right of this picture because there are no roads linking North and South America, and FARC guerillas, drug operations and all kinds of other serious threats to my health lurk along whatever tracks there are in the region. Driving through simply isn’t an option.

However there are still some great surf spots between the border with Costa Rica and the capital Panama City and I may even have the chance to surf on the Caribbean side while I wait to offload the car because the land is so narrow at this point and can easily be navigated in the car. They get ocean liners through the middle of the country so the bug shouldn’t be a problem!

I will let you know how bad getting into this final county was.