Tropical Life

test your knowledge latin america.

don’t even think about leaving the great white north without knowing a little about latin america. you’d best break out your number 2 pencil, and take our test to find out if you have what it takes .

the writing on the wall – graffiti in san jose.

i’ll admit it. i’m a book whore. and on my last visa run to costa rica i spent an obscene amount of time fingering the swollen shelves of mora books. mora books is an excellent used book store in downtown san jose. sometimes i think i spend more time there than i do with my [...]

more unpaid publishing credits

now i know exactly how Hemingway must have felt just before he put a gun in his mouth. what you see here is the new print edition of the panama report. hurry – it’s moving fast. i had to wrestle this copy from the bony hands of a crone. she was using it to shield [...]

momz never liked omar torrijos

every hear of a site called cute overload? they’ve just been crowned the “best american weblog,” over at the bloggies. no doubt the judges conducted a nationwide search and this was the best america had to offer. how does one win a blogging award for posting nothing but random pics of fluffy animals? it appears [...]

panama phone sex – the morning after

panama sex is cheap. the girls are giving it away. but calling your panamanian girlfriend from the u.s can be expensive. the following is a real conversation i had with the phone company after a month of phone sex with my girlfriend.