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2/11-12 Palmar Norte & Paso Canoas
We have decided to ride much quicker to Panama now, because we found out that there is a large Carnival for the 4 days prior to Ash Wednesday. We have heard that the best city to go to is Las Tablas, in the peninsula on the south side, and that you need to tet there a few days early to have any chance at a place to stay. So we are going to do our best to get there.
There aren’t many options for places to stay on the way to the border from here, so we made our first day ride to Palmar Norte, a hub-city for truckers heading north on the Interamericana highway from Panama. There is very little to see or do here, so we hit the hay at a pretty early hour.
Our last ride in Costa Rica turned out to be one of my favorites. Although this road is the major highway through all of Central and South America, it is hardly more than a two-lane country road through the forest, many times not even having lines painted on it. It was such a peaceful, nice ride on the twisting and winding road, through lots of little settlements with no more than a handful of houses. I have a feeling that the people south of Dominical and Palmar don’t see many tourists, because as we rode by people, they would stop what they were doing to yell and wave at us. These quaint little towns had many 3 to 4-man logging and saw-mill operations, and the men would always yell “Pura Vida” at us. It really was a beautiful ride, and unfortunately it happened on our last day.
We pulled into Paso Canoas around 4pm, after a long 60 mile ride. Paso Canoas simply exists as the border town to Panama and has the strange appearance of a dirty, trashy city like Tijuana. We walked around a little bit, but were quite exhausted from the day. I even accidentally fell asleep at around 8:30 that night and couldn’t sleep too much past 3:30 in the morning.
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