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Breakfast, Panama Style

Finally! I breakfast I love. And I found it in Panamá.

While staying in Panama City for a few weeks, it has taken a trip to the Los Santos region of the country to give us a true appreciation for the traditional breakfast here.  

As a person who doesn’t love eggs for breakfast, I’m not an eat-breakfast-out kind of person and usually stick to something simple at home.  So, the fact that I’m inspired to talk about Panamanian breakfast surprises even me.  

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Are we there yet?

Let’s get back to traveling!

After spending an amazing summer in the Colorado mountains, we are ready for a little international travel! 

We’ve passed the summer doing as many sports as we can cram in—and even decided to learn rowing/sculling at Dillon Reservoir to mix things up.  What I can say is any minimal time on the rowing machine at the gym did absolutely zero in preparing me for the real sport!  You can’t just go get a cardio workout trying to go as hard as possible when you are worried about wobbling around in a very unstable boat and not wanting to swim in ice-cold waters.  Fortunately, we took lessons with the Frisco Rowing Center where we learned how to stabilize the boats (oddly enough, it’s mostly to do with holding your hands at a certain height), how to position your hands and wrists (oddly challenging to get this right), and how to put together the pieces of the stroke/recovery (not at all what I was doing when I was on the gym rowing machine!).  

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