Former yacht and small commercial craft captain now retired in western Panama about a 45 minute drive from the Costa Rican border. In the five years I've lived here it's always been in fully-furnished houses, but now I have to move and I found a small house in a new development near where I've been living, It's a 2 bed 1 bath place for, get this, $120/month! But it's unfurnished. In going through all the stuff that's been stored in the back room for the last four years I ran across my forgotten Mayan matrimonial hammock. Got me to thinking, rather than spend several hundred dollars for a regular mattress/box spring set up, why don't I do what millions of people do world-wide and sleep in my hammock? Don't want to chance hammering hooks into the cement block walls so I'm looking at building a turtledog stand. Wish me luck.
I have a brother that's heavily involved in camping. One of his sons through-hiked the AT and my brother hiked from Georgia into Pennsylvania before his aging knees forced him home. I asked him if he'd ever used a hammock in his hikes and he said no. He called them bear piñatas. Me, I don't like hiking around in the woods, but I do love boats. Back in '92 I bought a lovely 26-foot sailboat and single-handed it from Fort Lauderdale, FL to Mexico, Belize and the Rio Dulce in Guatemala and back. The great thing about that, as opposed to hiking, was that I was "home" every night. But there were lots of nights anchored out at an island in the second longest barrier reef in the world where I slung a hammock between the mast and the forestay, cranked up the rock & roll on the tunes machine and watched the free light show in the heavens.
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