Ahoy Panama

After a good 20 hours on the road travelling, I have finally arrived in Panama.  I the voyage was rather bland, as expected.  The most exciting part of it was when i got into an argument with a guy going through security about whether or  not my suntan lotion was under 3.4 oz.  I bought the stuff down in Peru and it only had metric units listed so the people had no idea how big it was.  Eventually they did decide 90 grams was small enough and let me through.  I was able to catch a glimpse of Manhattan on my flight into Newark which was almost exciting.  The night spent in the airport wasn't nearly as bad as expected.  There was a 24 hour food court so I was able to grab some food, then I found a nice little corner and had me an uncomfortable sleep on the ground.  I got up just in time for the flight and hopped on the plane.  The flight itself was bland, just lots of blue water.  When we finally did reach Panama it took us all of about 5 minutes to fly across the entire country, if that.  I had the Panama canal on my side during those few minutes which made me far happier than it should have.  It truly is amazing they way the thing was just carved right through the middle of the country.  What I found most striking about it however was its disgusting mostly brown but with some green color too it, especially after the pristine blue waters of the Caribbean.  This is most likely due to the expansion work they have begun, if not... well who knows.  To go along with the expansion, judging by the number of ships waiting to use the canal, it appears to be much needed.  Anyway I've got to get out to the store to get the necessities i didn't bring with which includes the planned soap, shampoo, deodorant, toothpaste, and razor as well as the unplanned towel which I somehow forgot to pack... oops. After the store I'll drink some coffee to hopefully wake up so i can make some friends, the trip wore me out.

A few last housekeeping items to the right --> you should be able to see my current location, which is somewhat accurate, but not perfect.  So if it shows me in the middle of the ocean dont worry I'm probably not drowning.  It also has a slide show with some pictures, clicking on it should link you to my picassa account which will have all, yes all, the pictures I take while travelling.  It appears to be stuck on an album of death road, I'm working on that.  Also, theres nothing there for this trip yet, but feel free to check out my previous adventures.  If you perfer a hyper link its picassaweb.google.com/kmelens... i think...