Decisions needed! (Panama)

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The blogs of my cycling journey through Costa Rica and Panama will came in a posterior phase of the trip. Its not for the lack of stories or good moments to write about, but because of the mental laziness that possessed me on the last few days and also for being in a moment of taking important decisions regarding my trip. I`ve been in panama city already for several days and still haven`t made up my mind about the next cycling stokes, and how I will cross into Colombia. There aren't regular maritime transport or roads linking the 2 countries. However there are a few options of crossing into Colombia.

Option A) The fastest and the most efficient way would be to fly to
Cartagena, but obviously it would be no fun.

Option B) The most touristic, would be to travel by sailing boat
through the islands of San Blas, in some sort of "mini-cruise" of 4 or 5 days, and that can be easily arranged in panama city.

Option C) would be to "hitch-hike" my way on cargo boats along the
Caribbean cost of the Comarca de Kula Yala, via San Blas, Puerto
albadia, and Turbo (Colombia). From turbo I would make my way to
Cartagena by bicycle

Option D) would be to do an identical crossing but on the pacific
side, via La Palma and God knows where on the Colombian side.

And option E) It would be the Darien gap crossing.

The Pan- American highway does not go all the way from Panama to
Colombia. It finishes somewhere in the middle of the jungle in a town called Yaviza, on the vast wilderness of the Darien region. It restarts again 80 km later already in Colombian territory. This gap of terrestrial transportation between north and south America is known as "Tampon del Darien", or Darien gap. Yaviza is, literally, the end of the road.
However a few adventurous travellers have made it over the years through the Darien gap on foot, by boat or even by bicycle.

On the next few blogs, will follow a daily account of my travels from panama city to Cartagena, whichever way that may be...

Nuno Brilhante
In Panama city.