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:Your best cheap bet might be to put up notices around the Panama Canal Yacht Club in Colon, or the yacht club on the Pacific Side (Balboa Yacht Club?) asking for working passage on a sailboat headed to Cartagena. It's a two day trip. You might have better luck making contacts by working as a line handler on the canal, helping cruisers to transit the canal (line handling doesn't require much strength; one person has to stand on each 'corner' of the boat and throw thick lines (ropes) to handlers on the shore to keep the boat stabilized as it's going through the locks--typically people pay about $50 plus food for local line handlers; if you do it for free for the experience you'll get an in). There are also boats (small cargo ships I think) which take passengers for about $250 and take 4+ days. Are you in Panama now by chance? --[[User:Sovietsleepover|Sovietsleepover]] 20:27, 18 June 2007 (CEST)
::I wish, but no. I'm stuck in Georgia working until September. My last trip sort of turned into a complete wreck and now I'm paying it off. But, going from Mexico down to South America is a trip I want to make some time. It wont be this next trip because I'm bringing my girlfriend out for her first time out of the country so I have to make it somewhat "normal." I'm still working on talking her into hitchhiking. We're just going to Ecuador for a month.
::By the way, your repertoire is pretty impressive! I like what I read on your page. Welcome to the Hitchwiki and I hope to see some of your experience written down here. [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]]<small><sup>[[User talk:Zac Stewart|talk]]</sup></small> 20:43, 18 June 2007 (CEST)
==Caracas, Venezuela to Lima, Peru==
