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The motorhome is parked at Thousand Trails RV Resort in La Conner, Washington. I’m scheduled to depart August 6th.
Today… A trip down memory lane!
2004 Central America trip…
This trip ended up being 343 days and 16,000+ miles through the back-country of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. 11 rigs started the trip, within a week we broke into three smaller groups for ease of traveling. Only myself and one other rig went the full, pre-planned route. All the others dropped out for various reasons. All returned safely to the United States. I’m planning to show these photos, more or less, 10 a day, whenever I’m not doing something else deserving a blog entry. FINALLY, it must be remembered these photos are prior to my switching to digital in 2006. The films were developed during our trip and the lack of quality control sometimes is plainly evident.
Today…Panama (south-bound) #8…
As always you may left click upon an image to see an enlarged view and then click once again to see an even larger view…
We are still at Portobello, Panama…
Still on our rented harbor tour boat, we approach the town. To the right of the church is the custom-house where the gold and silver was stored…
Like most churches in Central America, this one could use some maintenance. Supported only by poor villagers, it’s hard to come by…
In Panama, Christ is black…
Here, there were people entombed in the interior church wall…
The buses in Panama were the most gaily painted of our entire trip. They are known as “Red Devils”, usually un-mufflered diesels with twin rear stacks…they really roar as they travel at break-neck speeds on the local roadways. Every time we saw one on the roads…we gave them lots of room…
At the visitors center was this aerial view of the town at the end of the U-shaped bay. The church is clearly visible. Directly to the right is the custom-house where the gold and silver bars were stores awaiting shipment. Directly below the church and heading left along the harbor wall is a long row of cannon. A large fort can be seen on the lower right…
Local tourist trinkets…
Another gaily painted bus…
A watch-sentry’s post with the custom-house in the background…
Taken from the second floor of the custom-house, you can see the long row of cannon along the harbor wall…
More Portobello coming up.
I hope you enjoyed the photos.
I hope you will enjoy the future blog postings.
Forecast for today is mostly sunny and 71 degrees.
Enjoying nice weather is another joy in the life of a full-time RVer!
The red dot on the below map shows my approximate location in the State of Washington. You may double left-click the map to make it larger…
Enjoying 65-75 degree temperatures with low humidity most of the year is a primary joy in the RVing lifestyle!
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving”…Albert Einstein
“Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.” –James Madison
“Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.” —Mark Twain
My current travel rig is a 2006 Fleetwood 26′ Class A Motorhome and a towed 1986 Ford Bronco II, Eddie Bauer Model. This photo was taken in the desert at Slab City near Niland, California…
On October 27, 2012, I created a two-minute video titled America The Beautiful. The music America The Beautiful is by Christopher W. French. The photos, which I randomly selected, are from the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Montana, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Tennessee, Washington and West Virginia (not shown in that order)…are mine. Yup, That’s me standing in front of the Post Office in Luckenbach, Texas…Y’all!
Click this link to start the video. Make sure you have your speakers turned on and go to full screen asap.
http://youtu.be/FfZUzEB4rM8
If you would like to see my YouTube videos, click this link… http://www.youtube.com/user/JimJ1579/videos
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All original works copyrighted – Jim Jaillet -2019
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