While we were booking the first steps of this adventure, it took us some time to come up with a way to get from South America to New Zealand. While you can buy plane tickets that fly direct from Chile to New Zealand, they aren’t cheap.

As sad as we were to leave Panama, we were ready to move on to Peru. To close out the record of our visit to the southern tip of Central…

One morning we started a long walk across the shore of the Bay of Panama to visit the ritzy high rise neighborhood of San Francisco. While the buildings are certainly…

On Sunday we took our second trip outside of town and accompanied Kevin from Barefoot Panama on a trip to El Valle de Anton, a small village inside of an extinct…

On Saturday the 12th we did a day tour through part of the city near the cruise ship terminal where the Smithsonian manages a wildlife reserve. The area was once…

After a full day of rest and doing next to nothing, we decided to head out for a long walk on a hot day. Panama City’s new waterfront park is called the Cinta Costera.

After a full day where we caught up on our sleep, we wandered out into the streets of our hotel’s neighborhood, Casco Viejo. The area is the second oldest part…

We landed in Panama after connecting via a red-eye flight through Miami. It’s plenty hot here. Our hotel has air conditioning in the individual rooms, but the halls are only…

In June Kim decided to run her second half marathon. She ran her first back in 2009, and wanted to run another. This time she signed up for the Rock and Roll half marathon that winds its way through Seattle. But the hilly course was not to her liking and she didn’t have anywhere near as much fun.

In January of 2012 we got a few inches of snow on a Sunday afternoon of a three-day weekend. Since we didn’t want to drive, we walked out to University Village and did a little shopping. These are the pix from our neighborhood at the start of the walk.