Chiriquí Chatter

Maybe because I posted the piece on “Food For Thought”, or possible for some other reason, I received an email, with an attachment from a well known developer’s blog, entitled, “Why does Panama have so many poor?”
The quoted piece was authored by Michael J. Bonnell, and provides a list of reasons that “clearly” answer the [...]

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I was just looking at my “Links from an external page” statistics and I saw that I had a large number coming from The Noriegaville News. I clicked over to the site to see what was on Okke’s mind today. The following appeared on my screen.;
Sorry, but The Noriegaville News is closed and is not [...]

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One of the things I have really enjoyed, since moving to Panama, is having the time to travel, both within and outside of Panama and sometimes without even leaving my apartment. I have several blogging friends that I visit on a daily basis and through their photos I almost feel like I have gotten to [...]

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In case you enjoyed the eBay ad, I just found out that the author also has a blog. One good thing about the Internet is that it allows people to express themselves and in the case of the blogging mom of six, she has established herself as a world published author. Yesterday her blog received [...]

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If you are interested in the plant life in Chiriquí, then you owe it to yourself to visit the blog ¨A Neotropical Savanna¨.
This is an extremely good blog without any of the blather found in Chiriqui Chatter. Here is how the blog describes a savanna.
A savanna is… “…a natural and stable ecosystem occurring under [...]

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I am getting tired of the of posting about tourist visas and vaccinations, but I know it is of importance to many who live here using the tourist visa and for many who would like to move to Panama for their permanent retirement home.
This morning a link to a site called mypanamalawyer was posted on [...]

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I just finished reading the latest entry in my daughter’s blog. This is one of the ways I keep up with what is happing back in Texas that I am missing out on.
After I made it to the end of her latest entry, and picked myself up off the floor from laughing so hard, I [...]

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While I was at PriceSmart this afternoon, I bumped into Dino Barkema. If you don’t know Dino, you should at least have heard of his photo website. On this site you will find photos dating back to the early 60’s in Panama. Dino’s site has over 3,000 photos. Check it out.

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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 [...]

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While I was looking at web sources this morning that have links to Chiriquí Chatter, I found a new site that is oriented to Chiriquí and with a lot of specific information to David. It is called El Chiricano Webzine. It is in Spanish so if you are Spanish challenged, as I am, you my [...]

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