Achy Evening at the Hotel
Panama Travelog #18
El Valle, Panama - Tue, 24 Dec 2024.10pm.
Well, good news/bad news about today's hike to La Dormida. Good news: it was an epic hike with lots of waterfalls and we didn't slip and fall. Bad news: We got caught out in the rain and had to rush down from the top over a slippery, steep trail. In the process I overtaxed myself in the process. But at least I didn't slip and fall and break a bone or anything. It's just my muscles are killing me.
We came straight back to the hotel for dinner after the hike. Well, not straight back... we looked for dinner around town first. Many restaurants were closed for Christmas Eve. Our hotel's restaurant had a special fixed menu for the holiday but one of the staffers who's been really helpful offered to negotiate with the cooks to see if they could serve us something from the normal menu instead.
It's kind of amusing this was such as negotiation because nobody else is there. Nobody else is eating at the hotel restaurant. We saw no other customers there when we ate breakfast this morning, and there were no other customers for Christmas Eve dinner.
One benefit of eating dinner at the hotel is that I could just hobble up to the room afterwards. And hobble is exactly what I did. Climbing those stairs is hard right now. And going back down... ugh, that's worse than going up!
So, I'm in for the evening now. I took a shower to wash off the dirt and grime from the trail. It's kind of funny that on the trail I got soaked, completely soaked, in the rain and I clean up from it by... taking a shower. Anyway, since my shower- my second shower, my man-made, warm shower; the one I took without wearing a shirt that got plastered to my back- I've been stretched out on the bed nursing my sore muscles while catching up on computer-y stuff. I'll see what energy I have for more hiking tomorrow.
El Valle, Panama - Tue, 24 Dec 2024.10pm.
Well, good news/bad news about today's hike to La Dormida. Good news: it was an epic hike with lots of waterfalls and we didn't slip and fall. Bad news: We got caught out in the rain and had to rush down from the top over a slippery, steep trail. In the process I overtaxed myself in the process. But at least I didn't slip and fall and break a bone or anything. It's just my muscles are killing me.
We came straight back to the hotel for dinner after the hike. Well, not straight back... we looked for dinner around town first. Many restaurants were closed for Christmas Eve. Our hotel's restaurant had a special fixed menu for the holiday but one of the staffers who's been really helpful offered to negotiate with the cooks to see if they could serve us something from the normal menu instead.
It's kind of amusing this was such as negotiation because nobody else is there. Nobody else is eating at the hotel restaurant. We saw no other customers there when we ate breakfast this morning, and there were no other customers for Christmas Eve dinner.
One benefit of eating dinner at the hotel is that I could just hobble up to the room afterwards. And hobble is exactly what I did. Climbing those stairs is hard right now. And going back down... ugh, that's worse than going up!
So, I'm in for the evening now. I took a shower to wash off the dirt and grime from the trail. It's kind of funny that on the trail I got soaked, completely soaked, in the rain and I clean up from it by... taking a shower. Anyway, since my shower- my second shower, my man-made, warm shower; the one I took without wearing a shirt that got plastered to my back- I've been stretched out on the bed nursing my sore muscles while catching up on computer-y stuff. I'll see what energy I have for more hiking tomorrow.