Well Jerry and I took another bus ride into David Panama to pick up our SSB radio. Unfortunately Arturo told us the diagnosis was not looking good. There are at least two circut boards that are defective and one flexiable cable. They might be able to get fixed, but he would have to fix one, before knowing what was exactly wrong with the second, and that might show more problems, plus would be very costly. So now we are in the market for a new radio, he had a icom700pro that was practicaly brand new for a really good price, but that price is still a little out of our range. But he said he would let us know if any came up in our price range.
This time we took a microbus from the boarder to David, it was a small, airconditioned bus, that cost $2 but true as form in Latin American countries they pack the bus as full as possible. We got off the bus in the downtown area and walked around, supprisingly the town was very clean, then when we were ready to head back up to the highway and go to Rey (the big grocery store) we realized we were a lot farther than we thought, oh well we all need a little exercise. We decieded to take a taxi back up to the boarder since we had the radio, and three large bags of grocery's, we thought a micorbus might be a litte to crowded for us.
After checking out of Panama, the big bus back to Golfito got pulled over by customs. Everyone had to show ID or their passport and they check out the bottom of the bus. With everything being well we were off on our 1 hour and 20 minute ride back to Golfito.
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