From AdventureUs Outsider, Dannielle Hayes: “Early February 2008, I traveled to Panama to spend the first week aboard Panama Marine Adventures' MV Discovery, for ‘A Journey Between the Seas.’ Beginning in Panama City, we sail to the Pearl Islands, then to the Darien to see the Embera Indians. The journey continues through the Canal, with a visit to the Smithsonian's Tropical Research Center. Then we exit to the Atlantic near the town of Portbelo, founded by Christopher Columbus in 1502. My second week was on Kuna Yala, commonly known as the San Blas Islands where I was working on a story, ‘The Mola Makers of Kuna Yala,’ published in the Fall 2008 issue of the Smithsonian's ‘National Museum of the American Indian Magazine.’"