PANAMA

Image by 1981Adam via FlickrWell it looks like an epic journey is about to begin. Myself and three friends from Fairfield have decided to drop everything and head to Panama on Saturday. My expectations at this point are pretty vague... beaches, cloud forests, monkeys, horseback riding, surfing. We'll see if the impromptu vacation is as satisfying as a well planned out one. My guess is that it'll be even better because we haven't sunk so much time in trying to make it perfect.

It reminds me of the psychological experiment I read about where they measured people's happiness after eating ice cream. One group was presented with many flavors of ice cream while the other group was only given 3 different options. Guess who was happier in the end? Turns out having too much choice or agency over your situation can cause you to have more regrets when things don't turn out to be super awesome.

I'll probably be eating these words sometime next week when we're stuck in the middle of a foreign country with nobody who speaks our language and nowhere to sleep, but hopefully we'll make the best of it.

Any suggestions for what to do down there? Warnings? Leave 'em in the comments.