Buenos Aires to Vegas - The Trek

Panamanian buses in the rural areas (and urban too for that matter) were usually old US school buses that had been repainted and put into commercial use. We got on one of these to go from Puerto Lindo through to the port town of Colon. After only an hour we rolled into Colon, a port with a "Free Zone" where no tax is applied to goods at all. We had been forewarned that due to high unemployment, the town was very unsafe for foreigners. The town didn ´t look particularly inviting when we drove through it and there seemed a high degree of poverty with most of the housing needing some serious renovation and paintwork. Upon reaching the bus station, we grabbed our things and booked onto the next available bus to Panama City leaving in 20 minutes. We huddled together like frightened herd animals at the terminal until given permission to board. Just over an hour on the bus and we were in Panama City and safely at our hostel, Luna´s Castle . I get dumped into a room with strangers ...