Today, four days later than planned, we are finally leaving Costa Rica. The last challenge for my running clubs January Jaunt is a mystery run/walk where opposing teams must guess your location, so I have deliberately avoided mentioned our next destination - Panama City. I can remember learning about the building of the Panama Canal at school (a very long time ago) so am very excited to be visiting this engineering Wonder of the World.
Its a stressful start to the morning, as I have scheduled an Uber, but the hotel wifi is down so I cannot receive notifications of if/when it will arrive. The first 3 drivers cancel, but finally were on our way.
It feels so good to be checking out of my ‘isolation hotel and getting on the move again, even if the majority of the day will consist of Everything runs smoothly, the plane lands early, there is no queue at immigration (hooray), the bags arrive quickly, and half an hour after we were due to land, we are sitting in our 17th floor hotel room admiring the view. Its easy to admire the view, as there is a button next to the
Once Im over my fascination with the electric curtains, we go for a walk along the prom (or cinta costera as they call it here). We are staying in the city centre – our original hotel in the Canal Zone was full – so its harder to find clues for my ‘mystery tour. But theres a Panama sign and some flags, even if we dont make it as far as the canal.
We walk 4 miles in the heat, my longest exertion and Im hot and tired by the time we reach the old town. So we find somewhere to rest and have dinner. And its happy hour – so a couple of medicinal frozen margaritas (passion fruit and strawberry) help to cool me down! Then, an Uber back to the hotel to watch the sunset from my bed in the sky.
