Things I Learned Today
If you drive a motorcycle without a license plate, you will get pulled over. If you pretend not to speak any Spanish, you have to actually act like it and not respond to all the words you're not...
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The Motorcycle
So it turns out the first vehicle I ever bought, I didn't even know how to drive. But hey, motivations to learn new skills are seldom more potent than dropping dough on a new toy. And Panama's traffic...
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The Tale of the Motorcycle and the Chocolate Cake
Recently I bought a motorcycle and proceeded to write a bit about it, rating its various advantages and disadvantages under such categories as Motorcycle Utility and Learning to Drive in a Central...
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I spend a lot of time pushing motorcycles around Panama City. I know what you're thinking: "Van, why don't you get on and drive instead of pushing?" I know, I know, the wheel was a great invention, but...
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Whatcha Gonna Do When Poli Comes For You
The blog's had a bit of a hiatus due to a whole lot of unbloggable things happening to me (in the sense of really boring to read about, not in some cool scandal sense). But Carnaval just ended, which...
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The Great Carnaval Motorcycle Trip
I've got a backlog of blogs (a blog of blogs?) to catch up, so without any notes or any real plan of how I'm going to structure this tale of adventure, water hoses and hogs, I begin. First I believe a...
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