#BESTOF2021: Flying and driving Central America in the pandemic: few masks, little vaccine. Michael Yon, Patreon.com
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🗓️ 3 May 2023
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#BESTOF2021: Flying and driving Central America in the pandemic: few masks, little vaccine. Michael Yon, Patreon.com
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| 0:00.0 | Elevate your summer nights |
| 0:03.0 | With all the indulgence of the new Magnum Double Star Chaser |
| 0:08.0 | With cracking chocolate, popcorn flavor, and rich caramel sauce for the night |
| 0:15.0 | Pleasure is always on, Magnum, true to pleasure |
| 0:30.0 | I'm John Bachelors speaking to my colleague Michael Jan |
| 0:42.0 | Michael Jan at patreon.com he is in Tapatula, Mexico in the rainy season |
| 0:47.0 | You can hear it. It is raining intensely |
| 0:50.0 | However, Michael has traveled to Tapatula from Panama City to pursue |
| 0:56.0 | The journey of the migrants coming through the Darian Gap coming from all over the world |
| 1:02.0 | All continents through Ecuador, Brazil, Colombia, then through the Darian Gap |
| 1:09.0 | 50 or 60 miles of triple canopy jungle to the end of the Panama Highway in Panama |
| 1:15.0 | And then busing to Costa Rica and proceeding on north to get to Tapatula |
| 1:21.0 | The southernmost entry point in Mexico |
| 1:25.0 | Michael, a very good day to you. Your journey did not traverse all those central American countries |
| 1:32.0 | In a bus the way that migrants do. How did you reach Tapatula from Panama? Good day to you Michael |
| 1:39.0 | Good day. We flew yesterday. I'm with Masako Ganaha, the famous Japanese journalist |
| 1:44.0 | And Chuck Holton, another very experienced work correspondent |
| 1:48.0 | And we have been tracking these whole route together for months |
| 1:52.0 | Yesterday we flew from Panama City to Cancun and then took a connecting flight |
| 1:57.0 | And ended up in another town and today we drove six hours to Chiapas state |
| 2:02.0 | And we drove to Tapatula, Mexico and the border here with Guatemala |
| 2:06.0 | Interestingly, we didn't have to take any COVID test on the airplane by the way |
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