One day @ Skydive San Diego

This weekend me and my new found friend Rocco went to San Diego to do some skydiving. I´d only heard rumors how good and cool the DZ was supposed to be, and all of them were true. The minute I walked in to the DZ I had a good vibes about the place. It was a very small DZ, but with a lot of skydive feeling.

The landing area was a nice grass area surrounded by mountains. There was actually no place to land out, but with good spotting and good winds hat didn´t matter. The winds here was 99 % of the time blowing in the same direction so everyone knew how to fly in for their landing which never led to any misunderstanding, safe!

And for the swoopers and tandem there was golf grass to land on, deluxe!!

And the view from the plane, the freefall and from canopy was amazing. You could see the ocean, the mountains and Mexico at the same time, awsome, and also the peaks of the mountains stretched up to 3000 feet so when you deployed your chute you had the mountainpeaks horizontally with your eyes, sweet I must say!

We did 5 sweet jumps including one special jump for this DZ. It was called Pilecone, The San Diego 500, and they got the name from the Daytona 500, the nascar race. It worked almost the same way but up in the air. Two people acted as cones on their belly holding on to a long stripe, with a distance of 200 feet from each other. And the rest, in case the rest was 21 people, was tracking left turns around them, like a race, coolest thing I´ve done in a while ;-) Have to do that again, so I´m bringing that to Sweden to do it there!

The pictures and video from that and the other jumps will publish a bit later due to some technical problems.

So I registered and got my self up in the air either in the Caravan or the Twin Otter they had there.

Todays agenda, Head down practice!

Packing area

Manifest

Tandem area

Max Bond, T-Rex boyfriend, had a bad landing one day but he´s happy anyway ;-)

He´s coming to Sweden in May to jump and work with us. Big Up Max!

Swoop and Tandem landing, golf grass!

Main landing area

Way to the plane

Ready to go

The caravan

Sweet view of the DZ

Mexico

San Diego, Mexico and the ocean

In the caravan

Rocco & Me

The Twin Otter

Rocco

Cool swoop

Another cool swoop

Rocco in the air

Another new found friend - Adam

The DZ @ night

I will publish more pictures from the freefall and also some videos as soon as possible.

I had the best day at Skydive San Diego with some awsome jumps. You know when you have one of those days when everything goes right, this was one of those days!

So if you ever have the chance to go to Skydive San Diego, either if you are an experienced skydiver or just want to do a tandem, this is the place, you wont regret it!

Bye San Diego for this time, I will see you again....

Sweetliving tours continues...

Life in Bocas continues...

Somedays you just open your eyes and you automatically start smiling. You maybe tired from the long hard days at the beach or the sun following you wherever you go but the paradise smile will never fail you in Bocas.

My days here continues and I really didn´t do much but chillin´. 

The Holy Week or Semana Santa as it´s called here in Latinamerica accured now when I was here. 

 It commemorates the last week of the earthly life of Jesus Christ before his crucifixion on Good Friday and his resurrection on Easter Sunday. It includes the religious holidays of Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday (Holy Thursday) and Good Friday, and lasts from Palm Sunday until but not including Easter Sunday. It was nice to experiance it although if you weren´t Christian or Catholic. The way it affected all the visitors was that all the bars and restaurants stopped selling alcohol during Maundy Thursday until noon Saturday. But we made it through anyway ;-)

One day me and my new friends Jethro and Tim went to Red Frog beach and the Island Bastimentos to try out the surfing there. The waves wasn´t to great but we caught some water anyway, and some sun for that matter and we got to see some red frogs. Reminder, never touch a red frog cause they´re poisonous.

I spent four days here in Bocas. I wish I could stay longer cause here there is no stress, no worries. Only nice people, not so many tourists, some backpackers, nice hostels, great brekfast places, sweet restaurants, one local bar that was the best ever, and much much more.... 

Special thanks to Kathrine and here restaurant Ultimo Refugio for the best food in Central America!

Mira...!!

Our hostel

Our hostel, very nice place

Our doorm

Good safety lockers ;-)

Bocas street, early monday morning, so peaceful!

Bocas street

Hostel Heike next door, ok, but not as good as ours.

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Good electricity

Bocas sea front

Best breakfast place

Lilys café

Inside Lilys

Lilys

Susana enjoying here smoked eggs

Again, morning coffee ;-) Aaaaahhhhh

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Police station

Surf time

A jungle walk to the beach

Jethro & Tim in the jungle with boards

We made it to the beach

Very Nice neighbors

And we had to party a little bit

Went to a cool place called Barco Undido

Alot of people and reggae, reggaeton n Hip Hop all night

Tim & René 

Semana Santa

Semana Santa

Poker night

We didn´t have any chips so we cut up different colours of paper to use instead, it worked ;-)

Texas Hold Em´ is the game, yes, I lost.

A cool local bar outside town

Great jukebox

Got to play pool with the locals, won one, lost one, but still.... Awsome.

A sweet place I will never forget

So thank you Bocas for this time

Now off to my "hometown" David in the south of Panama for one night and then back to San José.

Follow me ya´ll. And again, thank you for reading, means alot to us! 

Gracias todos // David