Inside The House

Immerse yourself...in the world of a Panamanian jungle shack!







These gourds, called calabasas in Spanish, can be cut and carved for a myriad of uses. Here, we are drying them out to use as mugs and hanging herb planters. (or motorcycle helmets)














A view of our "kitchen." As you can see, we have a gas stove, a few shelves, and two silver water filters. Amanda took great pains to cover everything in this area with an easy-wipe sticky paper with a kitchen-tile graphic. I think it looks great.








Now, if you were looking at the kitchen in the above photo, and turned appx. 90 degrees to the right, this is what you´d see; our book shelf down below, and the corner of our bed to the right. Those buckets are filled with water just in case the aqueduct goes out unexpectedly (which it will any day now for the next four-month dry season!) .















Ok, rotate yourself another 90 degrees or so to the right (and, uh... take a step forward) and you´ll see our bed and part of the table; both places that we spend a lot of time.














Finally, take a little step backwards, rotate 90 degrees to the right again, and you´ll see our clothes and "stuff" shelves. That´s our table in the foreground, and the green orb on top is a ripe, undried calabasa, ready for carving. If you were to look towards the right from this location, you would be looking at the kitchen area as seen in the second picture above.