God was watching over us as we traveled from Mountain Home, Arkansas to Panama City, Panama. Our van trip was uneventful and the flights (from Little Rock to Houston - 80 minutes - then from Houston to Panama City - 3 hours, 50 minutes) went very smoothly!
At the Panama City airport we cleared immigration then claimed our bags and went through customs... and had a very happy and tearful reunion with Joy and Lynn and Josh (and LaJeana and Hannah, who had traveled down the week before...) as we loaded our 22 team members and their 44 big bags (plus carry-ons) onto a 15 passenger van and a 30 passenger charter bus... we finally got under way for the trip westward about 8 pm...
Lots of excitement on the bus and van... the bags were stacked so tall on top of the bus that we were unable to go very fast as we traversed the Pan American Highway toward our first night destination - Penonome!
We arrived at the Hotel Guacamaya in Penonome, Panama around 11 pm... there we met the third of our translators (we met 2 as we landed in Panama City), who lives in Penonome. Christina Hidalgo is a Walton Scholar student at Harding (as are our other translators Tatiana and Pablo, whom we met at the Panama City Airport).
In bed by midnight, very exhausted from a long day of travel... team is doing great!
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