“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.” - James Dean
Posted in Panama Journal on Mar 28th, 2007
Yesterday I was brought this fruit from Costa Rica. It is shaped like a pear. In Costa Rica it is called a Manzana de agua (water apple). I haven’t tried it so I can’t describe how it tastes.
Are you familiar with these? What is it called in Panama? I know the first word, but not [...]
Posted in Asides on Mar 27th, 2007
I have had exactly 2 weeks of pretty good service from Cable & Wireless. However, today they are back to providing less than 25Kbps bandwidth again. I hope this is a temporary problem. I have one neighbor that has ordered Cable Onda, so I will get another benchmark to see if Cable Onda solved their [...]
Posted in Cars, Car Dealers and Car Service on Mar 27th, 2007
Yesterday I went to Tambor to have a car serviced. If you haven’t been by their new location, they have moved in and their old location is vacant and for rent. The photo above is taken from the front of the new location looking along the InterAmerican Highway toward PriceSmart.
Posted in Panama Journal on Mar 26th, 2007
Apparently like several other people I made my way up to Volcan yesterday with the sole purpose of eating at the Republic of Texas Café. I am only going to post one photo since I had others on my original post about the restaurant.
Posted in Panama Journal on Mar 25th, 2007
The other evening, at the David Gringos get together, I was talking about one of the most interesting people I had met in Panama. I thought I had written about him in this blog, but in a fleeting senior moment, I guess had forgotten to do that. This morning I went back to some of [...]
Posted in Panama Journal on Mar 24th, 2007
I happened to be at a local hotel today and saw this map at the hotel. It is a freebie from National Car Rental. After looking at it, I think the only thing it does reasonably well is to give a person an idea of how many streets there are in David. For anything other [...]
Posted in Doctors on Mar 24th, 2007
I guess I have really acclimated to doing things manaña. I took a large portion of my annual physical about 6 months ago. The only thing I didn’t get finished was getting the physical exam of the prostrate and the “turn your head and cough” part. I wasn’t too worried because I had the lab [...]
Posted in Panama Journal on Mar 23rd, 2007
I hadn’t noticed, but apparently El Rey has recently put in a display from Exedra Books in Panama. It didn’t have many books and you get to pay $10.00 for an $8.00 book, but I guess if you want a book that no one else has read, maybe it is worth it to you. Personally [...]
Posted in Panama Journal on Mar 23rd, 2007
Lee, over at Boquete Guide, posted about a project by Amigos de Animales in Boquete. Spaying activity is getting a lot of attention throughout Chiriquí. Lee writes in the opening paragraph his concern.
I was not sure that it was a noble task in Panama; unless of course the local residents wanted the service.”
My weird mind [...]
Posted in Panama Journal on Mar 23rd, 2007
Last night was the Yahoo Gringos in David evening get together. Just like the last time it met, the group met at Panama Bill’s. The restaurant owners were there and it is obvious that they are interested in making sure the food and service are both good. I had the Barbeque Pork sandwich for $4.00. [...]
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