Ross Gerber 19 February 2010 | Rice Lake/Birchwood Along with a few other things on my to-do list, I really procrastinated getting this blog started, so bear with me on these first few blogs. On Wednesday (2/17), I began a journey that I’ve been planning for nearly half a year and something that’s been in[…]
Ross Gerber 20 February 2010 | MPLS, Miami, P City Hassan was right on schedule and got me to the airport on time. I had him right a letter in Somali that stated the people on the vessel were friends of Somalia and had many somali friends in Minneapolis. I’m not naive enough to think[…]
Ross Gerber 21 February 2010 | Panama City I woke up a little late after a long night and went on what I was planned to be a little stroll. I headed towards the new trump tower that’s under construction…it’s designed to look like a spinnaker and is actually a really good looking building. I[…]
Ross 23 February 2010 | Kuna Yala, Panama I arrived at the Albrook Airport in panama city bright and early at 5am. Albrook airport serves the domestic airports in panama and most of the early flights are to the islands of Kuna Yala…one of which I was flying to. I was literally 2 feet taller[…]
Ross 28 February 2010 | Panama On Wednesday afternoon, we pulled out of Shelter Bay Marina at the north end of the Panama Canal. We were nearly had to leave without two crew members that went into Colon to provision and got stuck crossing the canal in a taxi when a semi that was two[…]
Ross 01 March 2010 | Panama City Every morning at around 8, all cruising boats turn on their radio to channel 74 for the daily ‘Cruisers Net’. Nearly every boat has on a VHF radio onboard that allows communication with other radios within like 25 miles (most marinas and gas stations have radios as well).[…]