by PeterMurtagh-user | Mar 13, 2023 | Blog
Peter Murtagh in Valle de Anton, Panama. Having air freighted myself and the bike across the Darién Gap and explored some of Panama City and the canal (see Tip2Top.ie), I got out of the city after a few days and headed west — the short term goal being Costa Rica...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Mar 11, 2023 | Blog
March 11th, 2023 in Playa Las Lejas, Panama. I had my first shakedown yesterday. It was the real deal. It was done so nicely, I hardly even felt it. This is what happened. I was riding west, along Panama’s Highway 1, the Pan American, heading towards the border...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Mar 8, 2023 | Blog
March 8th 2023, Panama City. This is an interesting place. Some random thoughts. In the core of inner city Panama, there are at least three distinct cities. The first is the big, brash, reaching for the skies modern city with its gleaming, glass facade skyscrapers...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Mar 7, 2023 | Blog
March 7th 2023, Panama City. Anyone travelling across the Americas by land, north to south or, like me, the other way around, faces a major obstacle in the middle. It is known as the Darién Gap — the gap being the fact that there is no road linking South and...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Mar 6, 2023 | Blog
Puente Linda, February 28th 2023. After my few days with the migrants in Necocli and Capurganá, I made a dash for Bogota, feeling that it was time to progress my own journey into Central America. The road south from the Gulf of Darién was good and passed through some...
