Cleaning House.

I know that we have been inundating you with pictures lately, but I hope that they´re helping to convey a better image of our lives here than we ever could through text. Either way, by posting more pictures we´re saving a lot of space; with each one being worth 1,000 words, we´d be through our "blogspot.com" space allowance in no time without them!

Here are a few early-morning shots of our hour-and-a-half walk on the road from our house to the "Pan-American Highway," which is the main highway that basically connects everything from Alaska to Chile, and is Panama´s major transportation artery. (for many reasons, political, social, and environmental, the Pan-American stops about 50 miles from Colombia, then restarts south of the border. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interamerican_Highway)







A tree stump that kind of looks like a pig´s head!











Like taking a picture of the Grand Canyon, this shot does reality no justice.















A bridge towards the bottom of our walk. Note the metal floor gapping in several areas. While seemingly not dangerous to walk across, it is a harrowing experience to cross on a "chiva" loaded down with more than 2,000 pounds of people. Most chiva drivers swing to the left to avoid the degraded section, but one likes to speed up and test fate by flying over the wheel-sized gaps´ 20-foot drops. Exciting!










A tough one to see in the madrugada (early-morning hours, but it is a sunrise nonetheless, and a very beautiful one at that!