Not only a platform to transit to South America, Panama is also a wonderful country (ranked number 4 in the best places to retire to...).
For those who are not crazy about the sea and the heat, Boquete is perfect with his relatively cold weather and surrounded by nice mountains and volcano views.
For the other ones, there are plenty of beaches along the two coasts which are not far away from one another (that`s why the Panama Canal is in Panama, otherwise they would have construct the Panama Canal in Nicaragua...)
Loads of surfing spots, swimmable beaches and bay to sail...
P.S: As you guessed, this is not Stephanie!
Panama city is a very fast developping city which is called the Miami of the South.
We also unfortunately had to deal with the administration to ship our car to Ecuador (there is no road between Central America and South America) and spent the last few days to sort out all the neccessary steps.
We will drive our car into a 20' container which will be hopefully placed on the good vessel leaving on Sunday and arriving the following Thursday in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
We will take a flight to Quito in order to visit a part of Ecuado by foot before we get our car back .
More details to come soon.