Costa Rica to Panama Airport
Added on Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011 by Carole Nash Editor
Costa Rica to Panama Airport
The exit from Cost Rica is quick and easy. After getting passport stamped, the next office checks my motoring documentation whilst the adjacent room signs me off but with a suspended permission and so allowing me to return. Something the Guatemalien authorities failed to do. Sometimes I think mistakes are made deliberately to further stimulate the micro economy at these traffic points.
On my permit allowing me to transit El Salvador, the Honduran officials pointed out how my guide directed my exit at El Salvador and not Honduras. Normally such a mistake would cost me $200, a month’s salary for people, for something I didn’t do. However all is sweet this morning and it needs to be if I am to get the bike on tomorrow mornings flight. A man with a dapper moustache wearing spectacles that were almost suitable for a woman read through the succession of stamps indicating the previous progress of my permissions. Men like him sit in a state of control, not just in dealing with me, but himself. His laughs are curt and curl the corners of his lips rather than permit a smile. For me, this is a freakish inhibition which must seep through every aspect of his life and as I think this of him I wonder what he thinks of me?
I am beginning to realise that my social life is based almost solely on such meetings at the junctions where countries meet.
