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People's Bank of Darien donates $10,000 to Corbin Cares Staff FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 People’s United Bank generously donated $10,000 to the Corbin Cares Phase Two initiative, in partnership with The Darien Foundation.Robin Nelson, back, left, Sarah Woodberry, Matthew Cummings; Roberto Sancho, front, left, Marjan Murray, Maria Rigakos, Alma Monticchio, David Genovese, Ward GlassmeyerKatharine CalderwoodShow MoreShow Less 2of3 One of the financial institutions in the town recently gave the money to the philanthropic initiative in partnership with The Darien Foundation for pandemic efforts....

I kind of road tripped down from colorado. that was an important part of the trip, was to really get off the tourist track. i wanted to go back to colombia in a way that was meaningful to me. i could fly or take a boat. it was like kung fu or something, the fact that i would be going there. you could take a road and it ends in panama, that's it. but to get to colombia, you have to cross a darion gap. the darion is kind of myth cal. it's hundreds of miles. it's challenging, this idea to cross the darien. frightening. but why should it be easy? i bought a machete, a pair of tropical combat boots...

Military backpack. didn't really want to carry much. bought a baby blue mosquito net. it's comical what they had at this one shop for a jungle adventure. i was trying to shed my kind of american appearance. i felt like it would be easier to blend in. i don't know if i did a very good job. i looked kind of like a bum, i think. the last thing i needed before i left was a map. not a lot of people asked for a map of the darien, obviously, and i'm looking at what kind of maps are there. and this guy walks in. he goes to the same counter. >> hello, senora. >> he asks about a map of the darien. i tho...

Bogota and that was it. i got a cab and i went to central park in the middle of the city. i walked, sat on a bench. i had more questions sitting on that bench than i did when i left. there had been people killed, and maybe it was our fault. whether or not the paramilitaries would have gone into panama without us is up for argument. but i felt responsible for what happened. even eight years later, i still think about it. i still think about the choices i made to take that trip. i had gotten this idea in my head that i would personally pay any cost to cross the darien. but in the end i didn't ha...

>> great. >> let's do it. >> we got on the boat and there we were, headed for the darien. i didn't think there would be any real severe consequences. anything i got into i felt like i could get out of. i think we all felt that way. it would take all day to travel three or four miles, but we were definitely on our way. robert had a gps, but the gps was tough in that part of the world. we tried to get our maps to gel with the gps. we couldn't get the map to coordinate. it became very clear this type of journey was impossible without a guide. we went upriver all day, and we arrived at a native vi...