Questionable Bridges and Sketchy Roads [WE TRAVEL BY VAN] #vanlife
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off on another adventure behind snow and curt and we're heading to some hot springs they scoped out talked to some locals about the details so this should be another good day and over here my little lady sat with me she's not that little i guess she's like 60 pounds so there's two options at these hot springs they're called caldera hot springs there's a developed and an undeveloped and it's two dollars for the undeveloped and the money goes to the family that runs it so yeah it's gonna be a great day we're super excited especially sombrita because she gets to sit on my lap what do you think about this uh this is where people said they could park on this side of the river too i dont know loving the stability of this bridge if you look right here this weld is broken are you thinking you fall through i don't know if i want to trust my house on it what are you thinking we're not going to be able to go this way that's the last developed one yeah that's like the road we run yesterday yeah i guess he does do tours that way i don't know the bridge does sway a little bit so this uh might be a little bit sketchy i'm a little nervous honestly one van at a time wow wow looks like they made it here we go looks like somebody needs a jump or something's going on here the police helping out or the police getting helped nice driving emily looks like we got another sketchy bridge situation we're gonna have to decide if the juice is squeezable yeah honestly this one looks better than the last bridge but it does move a fair amount Curt's a road builder in his past life i trusted him on the last one let's see what he say what are you thinking of this one i actually think this one's in a little better shape than the other one at the end there's a couple of these support rods that are kind of welded in the middle but i checked the weld they seem solid it's pretty good i think yeah this one did look a little nicer to me than the last i'll give her a try this is pretty wild huh that was mental the thing goes up and down well he's not telling us not to do it holy van number two oh my goodness this is something right here that is that is terrifying i'm a bit glad i'm not driving hopefully they didn't loosen this and now walking over it's going to collapse haha nah we got this but this is some wilder stuff than we're used to you know this is kind of our first thing in panama outside of that highland area so it all feels really new to us being here in panama even though i got my hat from costa rica holy oh nice driving emily how was that thank you so much yeah going second might be a little scary because we just watched Curt's like oh my god there's like a wave behind him and i was like oh he must have gone a little faster i was like i'm gonna go slow and hopefully i didn't see our clip so i don't know if i made that much of a win that was wild wow oh what's going on with him okay don't worry just go slow yeah stay in the middle tracks and just give it a stop here what is happening okay i'm gonna go check this out oh it looks like we're getting into a little mud situation here possible turn around at least that's kind of a crazy turnaround whoa this is something we got a tow strap we got some maxx tracks i think they do too i mean it's downhill but we might have to come back this way later i mean at least we got two vans here and well i mean there's kind of some uh it's kind of rocky i mean i've stepped in some of these spots and it's not really mushy it's just wet yeah yeah do you think we'll have to go back this way i think so oh boy i mean this doesn't look any worse than that last section back there that got a bit rocky and wild up there it's okay yeah i mean at this point i don't think this is as bad as that last part so we might as well keep going but yeah a little bit of mud stone cold oh boy it's going downhill pretty steep i don't know you want to just stop up here and i'll take a peek yeah i'll go take a peek well it looks okay yeah yeah yeah that should be okay going back up i thought there's probably another kilometer we're really glad that we got that suspension worked on you know i do need some new tires but the guy who ordered him in is like never received them and looked all day for tires it's pretty annoying that he never he says he ordered them but they should be fine on the tires here too it's mostly mud which is like it's not too rough on time just the rocks that are rough definitely a good adventure over here yeah wow i didn't expect this this morning well i'm glad we had that coffee this morning i think you made a good choice going not over that tree in the road yeah this road is looking really good yeah it's just that if it starts raining while we're here but then we'll spend the night wow it just keeps going on and on well it looks like we made it here to the hot spring and this is the end of the road so we're gonna have to go back up that at least we have maxx tracks and a possible tow it looks like there's not even like a turn around that's just straight mud where everybody turns around okay yeah good job emily the best girl wow so we made it to the hot spring but we're gonna have to figure out how to get turned around at some point sombrita is loving it already she got a friend she hasn't been playing with the dog for a few days and then over here is the hot spring looking chill perfect they're water apples have you ever tried one yeah i bought them at the market ones they're no Washington apples for sure it's nice it's a good temp it's a good temp oh i bet the river right there oh the two dogs are following you across the bridge i'm see bouncy i like this wow let's do this huh yeah that's nice time to suit up and enjoy all right little buddy i'll be back here we go check out this hot spring all right we're all suited up time to come and enjoy these hot springs that we found that was a good time chilling here in this spring and i guess we're gonna see what the road ahead brings oh yeah here we go one tire in front of the other no left tire right tire yeah i mean it's definitely dried out a bit yeah plus i always stress a lot when i'm not driving i'm kind of a backseat driver it did look a lot sketchy earlier i think that it was a lot more wet earlier because it has gotten a little warmer it's dried out a little bit so i think oh we're spinning wheels for this oh we got it is there another spot yeah that's the worst except for those crazy bridges it's definitely a one at a time bridge suspension bridge built within the last thousand years oh my god look at those ripples oh wait that's scary but functional all right our turn here we go back over the bridge bridge number one god you can just watch it moving it's so it's pretty scary oh and there right there is definitely a little weak spot or something river crossing we're almost there made it looks like plenty of dicey bridges today well at least we got like a road builder over here gauge the strength oh man it looks pretty reinforced to me we'll see what the expert says it looks good good question all right well snow and cart made it over yeah i just gotta stay on these tracks as i learned in washington during the winter snow well the river is really pretty oh a bit squeaky that is scary in the squeaks oh we don't have to come back on this though so that's good yeah we're cutting across the mountains we took the exciting road good morning well i gotta show you guys what we're waking up to here whoa it's foggy out there hey girl we finally decided to leave the mountains of panama and head to bocas del toro which should be a real hot spot we had one nice cool night last in the mountains here before we head over to the caribbean side and hopefully we can catch this ferry today see what happens ah not what we were expecting but we just drove up to the port and look at us on the boat and who's behind us we made it on the ferry i was reading about this and hearing from other people that you're supposed to sleep in the line to be able to get a spot i'm pretty sure we drove up 10 minutes before it's leaving yeah and one guy the first guy we see saying go back go back go back but we're crazy i can't believe we made it on the BLEEP ferry i saw you trying to vlog so that's why i cursed because you cursed during our vlog i was reading google's rules and the light language is acceptable wtf etc BLEEP all that oh some bridges in the way one hour the guy's sand and we're all just giddy because we knew it would leave at noon but we weren't really rushing to get here or anything we thought there's no chance but i mean this is thursday so maybe that's perfect yeah because friday i'm sure it gets a little more traffic all right this is epic yeah we're gonna have to wait and now we're going to the island today this is perfect i do not want to stay here because everybody stares you down and it's like come with me i'll help you get to costa rica or bocas or wherever you're going no we're good we don't need any help i'm glad that it turned out to be true so the cost of the ferry was 60 dollars not too bad Curt and i are on the search see if we can get up to the top of this boat looks like where there's a will there's a way we found the way you just kept going you're like i think he said turn around no he didn't he said go ahead up and up and up oh okay well we got an ac lounge my abuela loved this stuff we were just up here coming down we didn't think we'd be able to be on this boat today quite a nice treat well today we're packed in here tight on this boat every side that's how they make the dollars so i guess Bocas is that out there on the left somewhere a lot of islands i guess there's six islands in the archipelago so what are they serving in the galley of this boat spring rolls with cucumbers pepper don't pull up on those on the spring rolls on the actual paper because uh our rice paper is broken but it'll make it a little bit more filling so that's good well emily's been working hard so we're brewing up a coffee here on the boat and we were counting how many islands that are not accessible by road that graham has been to ocracoke island north carolina or south i think north, ometepe, isla mujeres, bocas del toro so four islands that you can't even drive to this cat has been to he's a little tropical boy and a lot more islands that you can drive to what do you think sabrita coffee at 146. it's okay right hopefully we'll be able to sleep i bet you Curt's over there mooning us right now oh there's a white butt got Carinero Island there super close is actually a place that columbus went pretty insane yes he was there they put the boats on the sand at high tide and so low tide they can tip the boat clean the bottom and that is uh carinero island because that refers to the boat careening oh what yeah yeah oh wow it does look like a lobster that thing is low to the water oh dang toss it over here it looks like we've decided to check out the town briefly stock up and head across the island over to the area of the starfish beach which you can't drive to but you can drive most of the way and then walk a nice walk along some beautiful beaches and this is like more of a snorkeling side of the island i got my new hawaiian sling would really love to try cooking a whole fried fish we'll probably head over to the more snorkeling side of the island to partake in those activities there's supposed to be tons of star fish we'll hopefully have some great videos for you guys of that this is bocas town the capital of the province the island and also the name of the town is bocas so we get to go across the island check out this sweet snorkel spot hopefully supposed to be some bugs but you know what we got some counter measures thanks so much for watching we'll be back soon to show you guys our first adventure on bocas del toro with snow and curt see ya
2021-08-22 23:05