Tag: travel
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Tapas at Tantalo-Casco Viejo, Panama City
A restaurant only needs one word in their description to grab my attention. That word is tapas. Located in the Casco Viejo section of Panama City, Tantalo offers tapas with a Panamanian flare. Once we walked through the door, which was conveniently located only steps away from our hotel, Casa Sucre, we couldn’t help but…
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Plazas in Pictures-Casco Viejo, Panama City
Plazas, piazzas, squares, no matter what you call them, I love them. I love to examine their lay outs, their landscaping, and what makes this plaza different from that plaza. Exploring plazas is one of my favorite things to do when visiting a city. The historic Casco Viejo section of Panama City certainly has its…
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Staying at Casa Sucre Boutique Hotel
We fell in love with the Casco Viejo section of Panama City, Panama, during our trip ten years ago. I’m a bit of an architecture nerd and there was something magical about the abundance of old, crumbling buildings, calling out to be restored to their former glory. It’s still not an uncommon sight to see…
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My Panama/Costa Rica Hiking Triumph
They didn’t know, Erika, Jenny, Rey and especially Liza (we did the most hikes with Liza). Our guides, didn’t know how nervous I was at the start of the week. I wanted to hike. I had worked hard so that I could hike, but I was still worried that hiking would cause an episode. An…
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We Eat A Lot of Frozen Treats-Panama Edition
The gelato was nice and creamy, but what I loved the most was that the flavors really popped. They were so vibrant. There was no mistaking what flavor you were eating.
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Staying At Disney’s Pop Century Resort
Rooms The rooms are basic hotel rooms that have everything you need. The shower had ample hot water and the pressure was good. Our room was clean. I still find it endlessly magical to return to a room with a made bed. Speaking of beds, having a queen sized bed at home, we always…
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Hiking at Chautauqua Park
I already wrote a previous post about how this ended up being an important, significant, hike. A life altering hike in fact, so I won’t go into all of that again. Since our last meal was sometime late afternoon the previous evening, we knew we needed some fuel before hiking. We saw a Starbucks, and…
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Our Flash Flood at Red Rocks Story
I sat in the car with the smug satisfaction of being a rule follower. I was still dry. Huge rain droplets smacked down on our rental car’s windshield with a thunk-thunk-thunk. Those who were not rule followers now desperately tried to make it to their cars amid the pounding rain. Several minutes earlier- We had…
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Mt. Evans Summit-Colorado
Important advice, even if it is in the mid-80s at the bottom, at the summit of the highest paved road in North America, it is going to be chilly. There may be snow at the top, even in summer. Be prepared. We were prepared. We wore pants and hiking boots. We had extra layers, including…