“Push harder! Push! Now lift it! Push! Try it from the other side! Lift! Push! Harder!” – this is how teamwork sounds at its best. What were we doing? Putting a pumpking under the net on the trailer. Yes, you’ve read it right: we are now transporting pumpkins on the trailer. Among other stuff.
Panama
Week 105: 100 Days Untill Christmas
Week 105. Only 100 days left until Christmas! We made 100-day-plan for all our team members to reach their goals. Tulku’s main goal is to be able to walk 4 hours non stop once per week and reach her pre-operation condition! How much can you achieve in 100 days?
Week 104: Power Outage
Week 104. Power outage. Central America is not known for stable power supply. So our highlight of this week is shopping without lights. You get a torch and then you help yourself through the small mini-super (local name for general store). At the end the lady looks with her own torch what is in your shopping cart (or what you put on her desk) and sums all up in a calculator (because nothing works without a calculator in Latin America). Oh and she knows all the prices by heart so no trouble with that.
Perfect timing
Perfect timing
Week 103: Burned Out
Week 103. Burned out. We spent two days and two nights laying under a mango tree. No tent, no shower, no toilet. Just laying under a mango tree. During daytime we watched clouds passing by; at night we watched shooting stars (we counted 8 before falling asleep). And then it started to rain, so we moved under a roof. And kept laying, completely burned out. We still are laying. Half of the people tell us ‘Oh, you overcame even worse things, sure you’ll be fine!’, the other half tell us ‘You’re living a dream, it can’t be bad!’. And here we are, still laying. On the bright side, we will walk past that mango tree tonight on our way to watch astronauts in the Soyuz capsel on their way to ISS, so I guess the world is still spinning.
To do lists
Let’s talk about some random things we do. There are some random reoccuring topics we talk about, one of them is space exploration and Mars colonization (yes, very random). It’s a hot topic here in Boundless Biking right now and we are preparing for the sighting of the Soyuz capsule with the astronauts heading to ISS on Wednesday. We will be able to see them on Wednesday and on Thursday from Panama as a tiny dot in the sky at around 5am. The next random thing are ‘To do lists’: we love them, we hate them and we can’t live without them. We have at least 3 different lists everyday to fulfill in order to keep our ‘expedition’ running. So while struggling with our own tasks, we looked at what the astronauts are doing in ISS: https://blogs.nasa.gov/stationreport/2015/08/28/ We were surprised that some of the tasks were very similiar! ‘Check Activation of GoPro camera’ and ‘Finish drying the first pair of gloves’ – what’s on your to do list for today?
Week 102: Panama we hate you
Week 102. Panama, we hate you! Why? Well, there are many reasons. Here is an example of what we’re dealing with on daily basis:
Our dialog with staff of the campsite in the evening:
We: How much is camping per night?
They: 5$ per person per night.
We: Ok, we would like to stay here for 2 nights.
They: Ok.
Our dialog with same staff of same campsite in the morning:
They: Why aren’t you packing your stuff and going? You have to go away now!
We: What? We talked yesterday that we stay here for 2 nights.
They: Yes, you can stay here for second night, but if you want to stay here in the daytime too, then it’s extra 15$ per person. Or get out!
We: What the hell, Panama?
Quiz: Name
Quiz Friday! Here is Sven meeting locals. People in Latin America are very curious and want to know everything about us. It is hard for them to pronounce our names, that’s how Kira became Quira, Tulku became Turcó and Sven… Question: How do most people call Sven in Latin America?
A: Esben
B: Ben
C: Zfen
Write your guess in the comments! The winner will get a personal kilometer as well as a place in our Hall of Fame (http://on.fb.me/1JAdFTC). The quiz ends on Monday (00:00 GMT). The winner will be announced on Tuesday. The winner will be drawn at random from all the correct entries.
Week 101: On the Road again
Week 101. On the road again! Though not in China, but still in Panama. We managed to escape the black hole (aka Panama City): we didn’t get lost this time and the Bridge of Americas wasn’t that hard or scary as people told us. Up next: cycling Panama.
Quiz: Stamps
Quiz Friday! Here is Kira putting stamps on a parcel. Sending packages from Panama is a big deal and panameños take stamps very seriously. Question: How many stamps did we have to put on the box? It weights 3,45 kg and goes to Europe. Write your guess in the comments!
It took us 6 hours to send this one box and the process included searching for the particular brown paper and the particular duct tape; opening and closing the box 4 times; standing in a queue 8 times and licking lots of stamps.
The winner will get a personal kilometer as well as a place in our Hall of Fame (http://on.fb.me/1JAdFTC). The quiz ends on Monday (00:00 GMT). The winner will be announced on Tuesday. The winner will be drawn at random from all the correct entries.
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