NOW BUMMIN’ IT IN
PANA MA
WITH EJ BARACCO & NICK MCLOOTA
T R AV E L
SLEEP
EJ // It was a lot. We flew in from Fort
Lauderdale to Panama City. Then had to taxi 30
minutes to another airport where we caught a
puddle jumper straight to the island. Really cool
plane ride into the islands.
EJ // Our first month we stayed at this bed and
breakfast on Bastimentos. The owners were
super nice, we loved it. Breakfast included as
well, but 45 minute jungle walk to the nearest
break which was fun...occasionally. In town, we
had a cool little spot close to everything. I can’t
remember the name of the place but five of us
slept there for a month and it was fine.
Nick // I flew from Wilmington, NC to Fort
Lauderdale. Then EJ picked me up and we spent
the night on a sailboat. Then I just traveled on
down with him.
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Nick // So the sleeping situtation sucked for a
little while. When I first got to town, I had an Air
BnB. And it was on Bastimentos Island. If we
wanted to go into town, we had to take a boat. It
was sick though, the guy we were staying with
just ended up flying to America and giving us
his condo for a month. The place ran on 100%
self sustained, solar panels and a wind generator.
The fans would go off at 3 am everyday to power
the house through the night. And then we got an
apartment for three weeks with AC. And it was
cool and all but it got broken into at one point.
And the owner blamed us for leaving the door
open, which was not true. So that was crazy and
kinda sucked. And then we fianlly found these
apartments called Sea Haven. Everyone had
a place to sleep, a few were on the floor but it
was by a main road so we could get taxis to surf
breaks whenever we wanted.