On Thursday 30th January, I took the one o’clock shuttle bus from my home in Santa Catalina, Panama to Boquete to do something I have been looking forward to for years: hiking Corcovado National Park in Costa Rica! I asked the bus driver to drop me off along the highway in David. From there, I took a taxi to the busstop to get to the Panama – Costa Rican border at Paso Canoas. As always with these local micro buses there was no lack of people nor cheerful reggaeton-music.