Portobelo, Panama is a tiny port city near Colón and is as slow and sleepy as it gets.

It used to be something back in the day though. Founded in 1597 by Spanish explorer Francisco Velarde y Mercado it was an important silver-exporting port of the Spanish Treasure Fleet. It was captured and plundered by Admiral Sir Henry Morgan, a notorious privateer, in 1668 and apparently Sir Francis Drake was he was buried in a lead coffin somewhere near here.

We loaded our motorcycles onto a Trimaran from the port of Portobelo and set sail to Cartagena, Colombia. For about 10 days we sailed through the caribbean stopping at several of the beautiful Kuna islands on our way. The trimaran, captained by Capt. Dennis and his trusted first mate Angel, has seen better days unfortunately.

But even with a missing main sail, a slightly broken dingy, very broken toilets, a broken radar, a shortage of food and rusty fuel tanks forcing us to keep our diesel on deck in plastic tanks with a garden hose running down into the engine and required someone to stick their toe down to shift into reverse and back, we made it safely to Cartagena to continue our motorcycle trip.