(here’s something coughed up from the malignant bowels of django durango. who’s django durango? i don’t know man. the twisted bitch sent this over with no explanation, or website to promote. very strange. in truth, i almost deleted it. but the rant’s so funny, outrageous, and horribly accurate, that it belongs on panama after hours.)
Screams From The Bus
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9:50 pm - alex and i wait at albrook station for the panaline bus to san jose costa rica. it feels like we’ve wandered into a colony of leaf-cutter ants. everyone’s carrying something, even the nuns have backpacks. brown-skinned natives dart past. buses groan under the weight of so many people making the pilgrimage to the interior for semana santa.
holy week’s huge in central america. across the lobby several young nuns cluster under a sign that reads “favor no gritar” (please don’t scream). but for me the screams will come later, after i’ve spent 15 hours wedged in a too-small seat on panaline’s rolling refrigerator of doom. read more»
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arraijan
i just read your blog for the first time and i had to write and tell you how much i thoroughly enjoyed your postings. i am moving to panama this spring and it has been very difficult to find anything written about panama where some expat is not trying to peddle something. I have not laughed this much in a long time. i do have one question, is arraijan a reasonable place for a retiree to live? (Chuck in Belize)
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