Honk If You Love Chiriquí Chatter
Mar 1st, 2007 by Don Ray
Panama doesn’t use the front license plate holder and I got tired of the car looking bare, so I decided to design my own tag.
I have had people write me before and say they thought they saw me but weren’t sure. Well if you see a car with this on the front
and someone that looks like my photo in the upper right sidebar driving, it just might be me.
I asked the folks over at Copias dos y Diseños de Chiriquí to make me something using the theme of my website. If you want a unique car plate they can take care of you.
Don Ray,
Nena and I are still laughing!! Only you would think of producing your OWN license plate!! What a great idea.
When I made my first trip to Boquete to meet my future in-laws, I had an old Rambler station wagon with “Dragon Wagon” in white letters on the front bumper. My future father-in-law rode back to Panama City with us and we hadn’t gone far before I noticed folks on the roadside waving at us. Soon my future FIL tapped my shoulder and motioned for me to pull over. Since my Spanish hadn’t developed yet, I assumed that he knew the folks and next thing I know I’m hauling more folks.
I learned years later that he was charging for rides since the vans then used to put the cities they served in white letters on the front bumper and the folks were mistaking me for commercial transport!!! My FIL never completed school but then he never starved to death either because he never missed an opportunity to see a deal! haha
Jim and Nena in Texas
I have to do something to keep the old brain cells working even it it is making up things to do.