We are in Bocas Del Toro, Panama embracing the local’s way of drinking. Yes, an occasional Balboa beer, but mostly coconut water, fresh off the tree.

But first, we chat about machetes, the most useful tool in these parts and the shortcut to feeling like a local.

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