Thursday, 03 June 2010 18:59
Last Updated on Thursday, 03 June 2010 19:09
When Manu Medina, in his bright yellow board shorts, caught what evolve into a long and powerful wave back to shore, he may not have realized how symbolic it was for the region as a whole. Beyond TV and surf movies, I had never seen anyone maneuver the way Manu did that morning and I told him so in the afternoon when he was serving me a plate of fried fish.
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For a guy like me who is hard wired and outrageously ADD, free time is somewhat of a killer. There is something about Panama that gets to me if I am not fully engaged at all times. After finishing a project on the Caribbean coast I returned to my familiar stomping grounds 
It's got a great name. Not unlike the parents that named Madonna, it's as if her founding fathers knew 
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It's been rumored for at least three years that a new "international
airport" was going to built in 
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Things tend to happen in phases and 
