Great travel experiences, no matter how big or small, always leave you with something of special value. Maybe it was a tangible souvenir or artifact, a poorly taken picture with immense sentimental value, a memory, idea, or receipt from dinner at a great restaurant with excellent company. Depending on the trip, simply getting back home safely may be the lasting highlight.
After returning from a spontaneous week long trip to the town of Chilibre in the Republic of Panama I look back at the experience and consider what I returned with. The list below is a short synopsis of some of my experiences and random thoughts about the trip and traveling.
- Tarantula spiders can run, surprisingly fast.
- In a tropical jungle sleeping with ear plugs will cut down on the noise from chirping bugs might not help the quality of sleep considering the screeching bat flying around the room will go unnoticed all night.
- While on vacation I finished the book “Walden” by Henry David Thoreau. His inanely articulate writings about the pond remind me of my own writing style. From now on things will be different.
- Always bring a medium sized towel.
- Your grand adventure may be paltry in comparison to someone else’s adventure but then if everyone had the same adventure would it still be adventure?
- The best thoughts and pictures exist only in my heart and mind.
In case you were wondering about the Fort Lauderdale pictures below, they were taken during my 10 hour layover in Florida.
