Chiriquí Chatter

I bet that is going to drive the price of tickets up!

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My grandson Noah’s football season ended yesterday. Thanks to the Internet, I was able to watch the game this morning. Noah’s team is called the Lions and based on the season they had, you could hear the Lions roar all the way to Panama.
Here is a photo of the 2008 Lion team. Noah (number 80) [...]

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On the way to the airport this morning, I followed several riders. There is either a race going on today or sometime soon.

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Eli Manning sure did make everyone forget about the Brady bunch. It was a great game. Of course the commentary was in Spanish, but that didn’t take away from the excitement. I liked the finish.
I watched all the commercials this morning on the Internet. They weren’t broadcast here in Panama.

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I just received the following email:
Don Ray,
Baseball season returns to David. According to La Prensa the schedule is
Friday……Jan.4th Panama Centro at 7PM
Sat……….Jan 5th Los Santos [...]

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I didn’t see it, because I couldn’t find it on any of my cable stations. I did listen to it all via radio on the Internet. With 18 seconds to go in the game, Dallas took the lead for the first time in the game. Dallas wins 28 to 27 over Detroit.
WHAT A GAME!

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You remember that the other day I posted some photos about the Vuelta Ciclista de Chiriquí. Today, I had to make a drive up to the Frontera. I noticed that the traffic was extremely heavy. It was bumper to bumper in a lot of areas. Then I saw the reason. The bikers were making a [...]

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Every year Chiriqui has it own international bicycle race known as Vuelta Ciclista de Chiriquí. I went down to Parque Cervantes this morning to see what I could see. The race took off at the park and went to the airport and then returned to the park. I was told that that was 8.4 km. [...]

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Did you know that David has a bowling alley? I didn’t, but apparently it has been in David for about 10 years. It is easy to miss, since it is not on a street that I drive on often and it has no sign to entice you to enter. In fact, after learning that it [...]

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Boston 13 – Colorado 1
If ever a team deserved to win the first game of a World Series, Boston deserved it last night. A long layoff between games can be good or bad. However as hot as the Rockies were, it appears that it was not good for them.
Still, you have to hand it to [...]

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