OK, I know that we have been silent for quite a while, well that's because a new camera and new program would not let me upload photos so I had to find a way.
Here are some photos of the things we have seen and done. Now I still can't get them in order so just bear with me and I'll try to explain what we have been doing. The top photo is Karen in our hotel in Panama city on the patio. We stay here because it is next to the airport and a easy way to be on time. The hotel would be classified as a 4 star with a great bar and restaurant.
The next one is pictographs in a remote area of Bogette where we spent a week just enjoying the climate ant the hot springs, The hot spring are 4 different temps. going from 140 to 120. Karen and I could not stay in any but maybe 5 minutes. After that there is a jump into the ice cold river, we past that one up.
This is still at the hotel, I couldn't get Karen to play a game of chess. She said the board was too big.
OK we missed the coffee plantation in Colombia so we found on here. The first photo is the bean drying. This is a small plantation with nothing but speciality coffee. Now don't think this guy is that small, his beans sell for $ 500.00 for a thirty five pound sack of dried beans. What you are looking at is about $ 1000.00 worth of beans here.
These are the trees that they grow on,I know they look like bushes but they are trees. They keep them top off to grow a thicker foliage there for more beans.
While we were there our guide roasted the same beans to 3 different roast, as you can see you have light,medium, and dark. The roasting is timed and we where told the more you roast the less caffeine you get. So the light roast has more of a kick than dark. Well we learned a hell of a lot more about coffee than I wanted to know. I probably should mention that getting to the plantation we were in an open bed truck and we were in a down pour at the time during the whole time we were there.
Just another look at what the poor folks are doing while y'all are all out there making your fortunes So OBAMA can redistribute it among his people. SO EVERYBODY WHO CAN GET OUT AND VOTE THIS NOVEMBER.
See Y'all Down the Road
Mike & Karen
Hey Y'all, We had a October Fest weekend and Karen and I went to drink and have a little fun. The little fur ball in this first shot is a friend of ours pet. She is 14 and Omar or what ever his name is follows her like a dog would.
There seems to be a lot of Texans here, this a couple we met that are heading to Rockport in a day or two to spend the winter there. They will then start out for the eastern side of the Caribbean.
Just a group shot of the party, there was over a hundred people there listening to the two bands that was playing. Maybe next posting will be more interesting.
