I’ve never been to South America before. Most people enter a new country through an airport ramp. I swam. Infact I almost made a habit of it. My tales of the happy shiny San Blas, are those below, but with some Laurence of Arabia script writing, let’s shift the end of this story to the [...]

  Pictures first…story at the end COLON COLON COLON COLON MARINA…CARIBBEAN SIDE OF PANAMA CANAL PORTOBELLO….the once greatestSpanish Port in the Americas Portobello Rasta’s home a third of the world’s gold once went through this building… blue sky mining… the reincarnated war-lost ghosts, now vultures Jesus is black… taking the last gunpoint… Isla Grande lighthouse [...]

 Drowning, not swimming may, I presume?  There in front on me, on a peaceful long weekend beach scene, in about 5 foot of water,  on a calm sunny day, a couple of meters in front of me, hundreds behind me, was a couple, ah, well, drowning. You will have to forgive me, but it didn’t [...]

ZEN AND THE ART OF BOAT MAINTENANCE.  Introduction. Ave Maria Publishing, in partnership with the Salty Sea Dog Spiritual Institute, has released extracts of the soon to be released  Zen and the Fart of Boat Maintenance, by internationally acclaimed gonzo writer, Roderick Davis, or, as he is known backwards: Kciredor Sivad .  Reviews “… a [...]

 PACIFIC PANAMA… The ‘You’ve gotta be kidding me“, secret beauty of the Panama’s Pacific Islas. How the hell could the majesty of the jungle dripped anchorages on the Pacific Ocean side of Panama go so unnoticed? It’s not like it’s off the beaten track. It’s barely a mile from the off ramp to one of [...]

  GOLFITO, lessons in the POWER OF NOW. “….har? arh…what time is it? where are we? que? Arrr…. “No Hablo Espanol…”.. “Oh….the border…? and its’ everyone off the bus? Right? Ci ci….OK….I’m getting up senor.” This was my introduction to Costa Rica.  Just after dawn. Still in and out of a deep, over-the counter-Valium-induced sleep….alone on [...]

Remember those fiends from the Santiago Yacht club, who ripped off the America’s cup, then cheated their way through rulings that mismatched giant cats vs slower monohulls, almost destroying the America’s Cup in the process? Well, about 40 years ago, the seeds of that committee were out in their whites, starting and finishing races aboard [...]

 I never did finish my Spanish lesso…. Hasta la Pasta Baby, Welcome to Central America. Panama City. The place that put the nod in ‘US FORCES GIVE THE NOD”. The CIA’s one time Central American nerve centre, or in other words, nervous central of Central America. Poverty, high-rises, banking, wanking and hey…don’t ask me too [...]