After much research about what vehicle would be ideal, yet economical to drive, we decided on a Suzuki Jimny (I call her Jimny Cricket)... once she gets broken in, the manufacturer claims that she'll get 70 kilometers per gallon. The ride is more like a truck, but she's got high ground clearance & the option of 2 wheel drive or 4 wheel high or low, so we can get lots of places... we need this because roads we wish to investigate often look like this:
Once she survived the rigors of the trip home from Panama city (lots of crazy drivers on the road), we took her up to Baru's old theater (the old caldera, which was the epicenter of the explosion which littered this area with rocks about 700 years ago)
Since it's currently 'dry season', it's windy and dry - you can 'see' the wind gust by looking at this tree's branches :
