A NEW CONTINENT!!!

Today is 8/19 and I am still in Panama City but tomorrow I leave for the Caribbean coast for a boat to Cartagena Colombia. This represents my first new continent since I've started this trip. It is on a 40 meter sailboat and is supposed to take 5 days. The cost is 385.00 I checked into an airplane but wasn't able to find anything less than300.00 plus 100-150 extra for the bike. So a 5 day cruise is actually cheaper than going by plane. There is no way of going over Darien Gap which is the land that separates Panama and Colombia. There is no road going directly from one to the other. I understand that during the dry season it is possible to make it but this isn't the dry season. I also understand that it is more expensive than an airplane it takes at least 5-6 days to do it. And on top of that it is supposed to be very dangerous. Supposedly there are lots of drug traffickers and other undesirables using the area.
The country of Panama is nice and Panama City is interesting, it really is a nice modern city skyscrapers and everything. BUT I don't know what happened in Panama every other central American country has beautiful women, lots and lots of them. But in Panama most of the women I see are fat and/or UGLY! I mean sure you see some good looking women once in a while but that's it only once in a while. You know they say that shit rolls downhill right? Well I think that is what happened, all the shit that makes for ugly people rolled downhill from Mexico through Central America and got blocked by the Darien Gap and fertilized the ugly tree. Because of the Panama canal lots of people came from all over the place to work most of them from Caribbean countries. Maybe that is what happened only the ugly people came. I mean I lived in Hawaii for 9 years and people came from all over the place to work there too, Japan, China, Portugal,Puerto Rico,Philippines, Samoa etc. etc. but the result of all that mixing together often results in some awesomely good looking people. So what is the answer, who knows, who cares, tune in next week for the continuation of this exciting saga.
I am very nervous about Colombia. Because of various things I have not done very much riding over the last several weeks, almost a month. Consequently I am in horrible condition. Colombia is not a flat country. I traded information with a guy who is riding his bike the opposite way that I am. He said he went over some 4500 meter mtn. passes in Colombia-----OH SHIT!!!!!!!!! Well I guess the bus is always an option. Well that's all for now.
I don't know if I'll have internet on the boat or not so it may be awhile. So until later-----HASTA LA VISTA BABY!