{"id":1089,"date":"2015-09-03T17:42:23","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T17:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2017-09-23T02:03:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T02:03:04","slug":"on-the-rez-or-where-there-are-no-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/?p=1089","title":{"rendered":"On the Rez, or&#8230;Where There Are No Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On the Rez&#8230;.or, Where There Are No Photos<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The National Geographic map of the northeast coast of Panama shows clusters of tiny, pale fragments of land stretching from Punta San Blas to the Columbian border.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>Only one road, completed six years ago, leads in from the rest of the country to a dead end in the western edge; sometimes it closes as a result of the sort of Indian\/non-Indian disputes that are familiar to those from the United States. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.2016canottebasket.it\/squadre-nba\/canotte-brooklyn-nets.html\">Canotte Brooklyn Nets<\/a> The rest is accessible only by boat or small plane.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>This is the autonomous, indigenous <i>comarca<\/i> of Guna Yala (the current most acceptable spelling, but still it is often Kuna Yala or San Blas), whose garrulously political people were one of the first to gain independent control in Latin America and who have parsed the social change equations intensely and uniquely.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>It is here that we have been sailing, back and forth and up and down again, since January.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>We have not seen a road or vehicle since we arrived.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN2964.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1005\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN2964-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN2964\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN29891.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1008\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN29891-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN2989\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN30902.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1060\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN30902-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN3090\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Up a bit closer, the islands as we sail up present a similar public face.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN31042.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1059\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN31042-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN3104\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN28641.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1067\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN28641-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN2864\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMGP00363.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1031\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMGP00363-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMGP0036\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN31441.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-987\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN31441-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN3144\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN3142.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-985\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN3142-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN3142\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN31491.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1105\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN31491-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN3149\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN3069.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-971\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN3069-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN3069\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN2940.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1095\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN2940-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN2940\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN3135.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1106\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN3135-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN3135\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Tightly packed thatched roof huts (5-15 year roofs, depending on which palm one uses), narrow or very narrow alleys every which way (high cane fences bound together with yellow baling twine), a cement public dock, the gathering house (large hut with wooden benches, the leader\u2019s hammock), the <em>chicha<\/em> house (massive pots for the ritual alcoholic brew, used in puberty ceremonies), shady openings into dark stores where you can barely see sweetened condensed milk, tinned tuna, macaroni, tomato paste, et al), solar panels, Kuna flags, outhouses and pig pens over the water, cargo dugouts full of jugs and drums for hauling fresh water from the river.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>The many uninhabited islands have coconut palms that are some one in particulars to harvest, white beaches, coral barrier reefs, and black lava rocks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN30842.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1062\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN30842-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN3084\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN3088.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1103\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN3088-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN3088\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Sand fleas bite; no sunbathing on the beach. The mainland is jungle ridges; there are no lights, no signs of logging or roads, just the jungle of the Darien peninsula. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In short, the Kuna fled the coastal mainland in the 1800s, pushed out by insects, snakes, disease, and fear of the Spanish, and pulled towards the islands by increased trade.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>They used them to live on, beginning to do more fishing and diving,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>but went each day by dugout canoe to the mainland to grow plantains, yucca, other roots, pineapple, papaya.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN2951.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1096\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN2951-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN2951\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN28721.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1069\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN28721-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN2872\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/span>Latin prejudice (\u201cthose ugly gold nose rings, those unhygienic dresses and beads, the godless religion\u201d) and police coercion (ripping out nose rings, beatings and jailings, forced social dances for women only to encourage intermarriage with Latinos) led to the 1925 independence revolution.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>From the classic nightly gathering of all eligible folks (no women or young men), where cases were adjudicated and decisions made about water use and land use and conjugal fights and collective work, there has evolved a spectrum of governance which remains in some ways decentralized and democratic and consensual.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cas-cozy.nl\/\">NIKE AIR MAX 2017 HEREN KOPEN<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.umbriatrasporti.it\/adidas.php?shop_id=nvz1389-adidas-scarpe-bianche\">adidas scarpe bianche<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reacteurdegourmandises.fr\/\">Soldes Chaussures Nike<\/a> <\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cavolfioriamerenda.it\/zoom-all-out.html\">ZOOM ALL OUT<\/a><\/li>\n<p> Each island has three <i>sahilas (chiefs)<\/i>, an <i>arkar<\/i> who interprets the <i>sahila\u2019s<\/i> words, s<i>ualipet<\/i> (policemen), but the number of each and of others as well as the specialization varies.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>The chants and stories and consensus formation that are part of meeting of the community congress traditionally defined the body politic.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>The society is classically matrilocal. On the edge of a colonial and then neocolonial society, they have developed a general Congress that meets twice yearly, picked up traditions like fines and flags, worked and sparred with missionaries, and grown in number. They principally sell coconuts as a cash crop, reverse applique <i>molas <\/i>that are part of women\u2019s blouses, and commercial lobster.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ascens.es\/asics-mujer\/asics-gel-kinsei-4-mujer.html\">asics gel kinsei 4 mujer<\/a> Others have developed a tiny service sector for sailors or tourists (but even at the most pricy, the huts are thatched and the sheets still dried in salt air).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>Half of the Kunas live and work off of the <em>comarca<\/em>, typically in Panama City or Colon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Up a little closer,&#8230;.at the wharf which is the entry to most villages&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN2888.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1000\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN2888-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN2888\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN2869.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-997\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN2869-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN2869\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN2862.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1090\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN2862-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN2862\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN2887.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1092\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN2887-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN2887\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMGP0038.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1030\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMGP0038-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMGP0038\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A Columbian, affably eager to talk with other foreigners, gut swinging out over his grimy shorts, threshes with a long pole with a metal plate attached to the bottom and squashes hundreds of aluminum cans.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>The Kuna sell them for $0.25 a pound to the boats, which resell them in Columbia for $0.40 a pound to recyclers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A Kuna woman, who handles the money in her family, supervises the offloading of cases of unknown soft drinks, counting slowly to herself, and addresses the captain when she is two bottles short.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collegeprostore.com\/shop-by-player\/t-j-yeldon-alabama-crimson-tide.html\">T.J. 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We chat about everything from the universal bursary that all students in Panama have received for the past 5 years (in one fell swoop of social policy buying school attendance, a feeder system to maintain middle class, population control, a bit of nationalism) to the relative merits of each water taxi to the needs of the disabled.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>The island had a water pipe which started at a source that is a several hour hike through jungle, but it broke a few years back; all water, all water, for the whole village comes by dugout&#8230; a 30 minute trip up the river, where it is laboriously ladled into containers,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>all day long.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN3014.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1011\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN3014-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN3014\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN3033.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1013\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN3033-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN3033\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <\/span>At night, because the citizens here do not elect to have community gatherings to attend in the evening, everybody is out sitting in chairs by their huts or strolling in the coolness, the air buzzing with sounds of kids playing. We are allowed to stay at night, unlike many islands which quiet down except for the long gatherings both political and ritual, and where we are generally not welcome in the evenings. There are people here who are overweight, which essentially is not seen anywhere else.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>Alcohol is sold in a store.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>This is the island that caters to sailors, so we go there to buy cabbage, onions, eggs, macaroni, eggplant, limes, and such when a boat has arrived; in a long stretch of bad weather there was no fresh food. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">At another, Mamitupu, billed at the other end of the spectrum as \u201cone of the most traditional\u201d is a gorgeous river whose mouth narrows in the dry season to a sand bar. At first light dozens of dugouts are paddled over from the island.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMGP0045.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1050\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMGP0045-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMGP0045\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN31211.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1058\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN31211-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN3121\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN31331.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1055\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN31331-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN3133\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/span>The <i>fincas<\/i> are all slash and burn with rotations about every 5 years; the crops are all interplanted with absolutely no straight lines, a lush wonderland of fruit trees and root crops. The water pipe to the island follows the path. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN31282.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1057\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN31282-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN3128\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN31261.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1041\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN31261-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN3126\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN31341.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1038\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN31341-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN3134\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> By mid-morning the men bring back blue land crabs, coconuts, gourds for bowls, palm leaves, avocados, mangos, and sacks of pebbles (for flooring in the rainy season) and zig zag, laughing at the risk of tipping over, across the bar. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.2016canottebasket.it\/canotte-nba-a-poco-prezzo\/canotte-nba-swingman.html\">Canotte nba swingman<\/a> Yet it also here that here that we see the only private diesel generator, are hustled by a 14 year old girl to buy a tiny very green papaya which may never ripen for an exhorbitent price, are offered the cheesiest of tourist <i>molas<\/i>, see a sofa and matching chairs offloaded from the trading boat. Again, we talk all evening with a man about whether the culture is going to become a \u201cKuna museum\u201d and how missionaries did not respect Kuna culture. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villamargheritahotel.it\/newbalance.php?shoes_id=ijl1ou6-new-balance-roma-via-nazionale\">new balance roma via nazionale<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maglie-nba.it\/canotte-nba-e-ncaa\/canotte-ncaa.html\">Canotte NCAA<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">At Aligandi, there are perhaps a few hundred retired Kuna men who worked as cooks on an exclusive contract with the Americans in the canal zone.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>There is more money, by the looks of the buildings, although the unusual wood houses picked it up from the American base which was nearby. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matteoricci.it\/scarpe-nike\/nike-air-huarache-donna.html\">Nike Air Huarache Donna<\/a> Supposedly there are rusting tractors in the hills from a failed attempt to persuade the Kunas that plowing rectangular fields made sense.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>There are padlocks on many gates, a first. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dirksbigbunnies.com\/wp-content\/temp\/\">Baskets ASICS Femme<\/a> The island has a hospital built by Baptist missionaries who started with \u201cappendectomies on a table in the dark\u201d stuff and now run a feeding and preschool center for children. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villamargheritahotel.it\/newbalance.php?shoes_id=aij1sz5-zalando-new-balance-uomo-saldi\">zalando new balance uomo saldi<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riverbed.pl\/buty-adidas-meskie\/adidas-yeezy-boost.html\">adidas yeezy boost<\/a> The community health worker said the vaccination rates for children under 5 is very high. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airjordan4cement.net\/nike-kd-womens-shoes-c-30.html\">Nike KD Womens Shoes<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jotaeslava.es\/air-max-mujer\/nike-air-max-90-mujer.html\">nike air max 90 mujer<\/a> He said it had been many years since he could remember a case of measles.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>He offered up that Guna Yala is well-protected against any cases brought in by American or European tourists. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mijnyoungadult.nl\/nike-dames\/nike-air-max-2016-dames-groen.html\">Nike Air Max 2016 Dames Groen<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collegeprostore.com\/shop-by-player\/drew-brees-purdue-boilermakers.html\">Drew Brees &#8211; 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Later at the man\u2019s house at the edge of the island, we realize that during the rainy season the water is up to their ankles inside the big one room sleeping structure slung with hammocks. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">And then people come by the RC Louise in dugouts. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villamargheritahotel.it\/newbalance.php?shoes_id=bcg1ps9-new-balance-993-outlet\">new balance 993 outlet<\/a> Some buy vegetables in Colon, transport them to the peninsula, and then into a boat.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>Others bring <i>molas.<\/i> A \u201cmaster <em>mola<\/em> maker and infamous transvestite\u201d who recited many legends came by and I let Steve decide on the choice; I laughed later when I realized it had almost all black stitching which stuck out, which violates the most basic qualities of what makes a good <i>mola<\/i>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fjallraven-kanken.nl\/\">fjallraven kanken goedkoop<\/a> Slipped by me with all that talk.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>Fisherman bring lobster and crab and octopus, both in and out of season, as well as fish, usually still flapping.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN29611.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1108\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN29611-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN2961\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/span>People will ask for a cell phone charge, some water to drink, some sunscreen (an albino young man with large facial tumors), magazines. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">We talk and talk and talk (mostly in Spanish, which most men speak, and only some women speak).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN30401.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1045\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN30401-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN3040\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <\/span>We are welcome.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>We see a people who have parried deftly with cultural choices, who are constantly parsing technological choices.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>In extraordinary short time frames they have been presented with a torrential downpour of written language, Western medicine, recreational drugs, electricity, education, the internet, tinned food, piped water, commercial lobster markets, tourism, smaller families (not in that order). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seahawksmore.com\/shop-by-player\/kam-chancellor-seattle-seahawks-jersey.html\">Kam Chancellor Seattle Seahawks Jersey<\/a> At times it seems like they are in free fall, at other times they seem to be doing a remarkably good job of making it up as they go along.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>Observation, adjustment, selection, cravings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The devil is always in the details of the intertidal zone of change. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moyodo.pl\/new-balance-meskie\/new-balance-990-meskie.html\">New Balance 990 m\u0119skie<\/a> This week the road into Guna Yala was closed in a spit over licensing fees for drivers bringing different kinds of passengers and goods into the comarca.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>Cruisers get upset about an assortment of fees charged for entry and anchoring, often not in the predictable way they might be set out in, say, Switzerland.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>The Kunas themselves still need permission from the<em> sahila<\/em> to travel to far away islands or out of the <em>comarca<\/em>. If the Kunas do not have economic control over something, they may decide to simply outlaw it:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>scuba diving is illegal here. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cavolfioriamerenda.it\/ultra-boost-2017.html\">ULTRA BOOST 2017<\/a><\/li>\n<p> No one really likes their photo taken, although it is accepted as part of the cost of a transaction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN2087.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1080\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN2087-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN2087\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN29961.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1107\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN29961-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN2996\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN29991.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1109\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN29991-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN2999\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I don\u2019t routinely take my camera into the villages, although we have done village photo shoots and given families prints.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN2174.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1083\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN2174-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN2174\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN2183.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1084\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN2183-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN2183\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN2158.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1082\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN2158-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN2158\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN2156.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1081\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN2156-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN2156\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <\/span>There are some great photos by a French guide, who comments that rules are made to be broken, at www.sagapanama.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I am often reminded of Ian Frazier\u2019s words in \u201cOn the Rez\u201d:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>\u201cAnother remark which non-Indians often make on the subject of Indians is \u2018Why can\u2019t they get with the program?\u2019..Now, I think it\u2019s better not to answer the question but to ask a question in return:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>What program, exactly, do you have in mind?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>We live in a craven time.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>I am not the first to point out that capitalism, having defeated Communism, now seems to be about to do the same to democracy.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>The market is doing splendidly, yet we are not, somehow.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> Outsiders of all ilk have asked that question about Kuna Yala for centuries. <\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pastrugni.it\/asics-gel-lyte-5-donna.html\">Asics Gel Lyte 5 Donna<\/a><\/li>\n<p> <\/span>Sometimes I look at the kids from different families, always out and about in the alleys, learning complex skills at young ages (girls start sewing at 6 years old), laughing and smiling and running&#8230;and wish my grandchildren had a bit of that.<a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN3108.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-980\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN3108-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN3108\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">One reef of the coast here is named Spokeshave, after the sharp metal cutting blade.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN2847.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1071\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN2847-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN2847\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN2854.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1049\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN2854-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN2854\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMGP00411.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1051\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMGP00411-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMGP0041\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/span>The mortality rate for vessels themselves in the San Blas in the last four months is about 3% (no lives lost).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>This is based on a guesstimate of 250 boats having passed through, and about 6-8 have ended up on reefs.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>From the point of view of captains, crew, sailors, the Kuna, and traders, this is a devastating event and engenders controversy about salvage rights as well as humiliation, disappointment, financial plans gone south, and a bunch of permanent hulks on the reef.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>Sadly, most sailors recognize that they broke their own rules \u201cjust once\u201d, typically sailing at night and not recognizing that electronic charts are not accurate here. There is a lot of non-Indian talk about \u201cthe Kunas took everything\u201d, though some sailors took large amounts of gear off in dinghies and at least one managed to pull the boat off. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>While we are certainly no experts on salvage rights, it seems that many places in the world one cannot expect to save too much when one\u2019s boat is wrecked.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>Hey, those Cape Codders even used to light fires on beaches to lure passing ships into shore and pillage them. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.umbriatrasporti.it\/adidas-scarpe-donna\/adidas-zx-500-donna.html\">adidas zx 500 donna<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moyodo.pl\/new-balance-meskie\/new-balance-577-meskie.html\">New Balance 577 m\u0119skie<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Our sailing here is mostly day sailing, with winds under 25 kts, and we don\u2019t roam too much when the semi-permanent low off of Columbia makes spitting seas.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>The challenge has been reef navigation, which mostly requires being alert, but which is made easier by the relatively contiguous structure of reefs.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> And having a shallow draft boat&#8230;.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN2990.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1101\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN2990-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN2990\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN29871.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1100\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN29871-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN2987\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN2982.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1099\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN2982-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN2982\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <\/span>Most people use a guidebook by Eric Bauhaus for navigation, yet even a few of his way points, which are generally spot on, put one 20 ft from a reef.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> <\/span>Our fishing is mostly with an actual spinning rod, small sierra mackerel and tuna and jacks.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefashionoutlet.nl\/\">Nike Air Max 2017 schoenen<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rioolnetwerk.nl\/aspnet\/\">nike air max 2016 dames<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bancatempo.it\/acquista-per-giocatore\/maglia-damian-lillard.html\">Maglia Damian Lillard<\/a> Steve battled the breaking waves at the surf line of the outer reefs to harvest cayenne keyhole limpets and another shell of unknown name with a foot plate like a gold mandala.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMGP00191.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1052\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMGP00191-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMGP0019\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN3157.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-988\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN3157-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN3157\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN30941.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1022\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN30941-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN3094\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/span>In Hawaii the old men go out to harvest them for weddings and christenings, and die. One thought is that they are expendable, the other is that it lets them experience \u201cthe sharp edge\u201d that they loved in their youth. He also spear fishes for red lionfish, cutting off the venomous fins while in the water; the meat is excellent.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>We snorkel when there is sun, often for 2-3 hours daily.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>For the first time I have started to learn the names of the fish, although I still cannot just reel off the words \u201cscrawled filefish\u201d or \u201csmooth trunkfish\u201d or \u201cyellowline arrow crab\u201d.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>Mostly, I have started to be able to see some of all that is there, although I appear to have a special filter which blocks out the nurse sharks that those swimming next to me see. We\u2019ve also been sampling new roots. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgiantsuniform.com\/shop-by-player\/brandon-belt-jersey.html\">Brandon Belt Jersey<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN30021.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1075\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN30021-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN3002\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN30572.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1046\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN30572-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN3057\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN3042.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1063\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN3042-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN3042\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">We have had many guests, a first for us.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>Before they came, I delusionally thought it was a mere matter of having some more food aboard and teaching them how to use the head.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.multisites.fr\/adidas-x-homme.html\">adidas X homme<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matteoricci.it\/scarpe-adidas\/adidas-yeezy-boost-350.html\">Adidas Yeezy Boost 350<\/a> In fact, before and after is a strategic event related to water and power:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>we are going up a river to do washing, taking on water at an island, ordering food from Panama City, hanging around Nargana waiting for the Columbian traders to show up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMGP0053.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1028\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMGP0053-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMGP0053\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMGP0054.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1026\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMGP0054-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMGP0054\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMGP0057.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1027\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMGP0057-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMGP0057\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <\/span>But mostly, I realize that every little thing about a boat&#8211;how to walk, where to hold on, how to wash dishes, how to wash oneself, how to be safe, et al&#8211;has to be taught. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saintmartinairmodeles.fr\/stats\/best\/\">chaussures nike tn requin<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infosur.fr\/nike\/\">nike air max 1<\/a> Mike and Liz (see Bocas del Toro) won the \u201cMost Patient in Bad Weather\u201d award, Melinda the \u201cI Take Orders Well and Will <\/span>Be Your Kitchen Bitch\u201d award, and Robin and Eddie the \u201cWe Just Love being Here\u201d award, with special mention for \u201cRapid Adaptation by One Who is Paralyzed\u201d. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jordantopsellers.com\/mens-jordan-shoes\/air-jordan-12-xii.html\">Air Jordan 12 (XII)<\/a> Robin found the handholds and small spaces and ladders on a boat perfect. It has been a special treat to have them all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMGP00271.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1077\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMGP00271-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMGP0027\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMGP0017.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1034\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMGP0017-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMGP0017\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN3054.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1076\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN3054-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN3054\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Summit of the Americas is being held in Panama City in April.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>Yesterday the Secret Service guys in shorts were all over so-called \u201cBBQ island\u201d in the Holandes Cayes.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>We are hopin\u2019 that Barack and Raul get to go out there together and have a real straight talk&#8230;and a BBQ.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>We\u2019d be happy to make it a cruiser style potluck and garbage burning party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMGP00141.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1053\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMGP00141-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMGP0014\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Steve\u2019s daughter and her family are coming soon, and we are truly excited to show them around our world for a bit. Then we will be back to Shelter Bay to put the RC on the hard while we return to Oregon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN29151.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1093\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN29151-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN2915\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN30981.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1023\" src=\"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN30981-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN3098\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Tracy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the Rez&#8230;.or, Where There Are No Photos The National Geographic map of the northeast coast of Panama shows clusters of tiny, pale fragments of land stretching from Punta San Blas to the Columbian border. 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