“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.” - James Dean
Posted in Car Rental Companies, Travel Related on May 12th, 2008
As usual, I am behind. I happened to be at the David airport last week and all of the auto rental companies are now in their newly constructed homes in the parking lot.
Posted in Businesses on Apr 28th, 2008
Chris and Gina McCall invited me to spend a night at their resort, Rancho de Caldera, in exchange for my providing a review of my time there. I state that up front as a small disclaimer. Chris said that what I wrote would be up to me and whether I was pro or con was [...]
Posted in ACS Messages on Jan 29th, 2008
I just received the following ACS message:
Date: 29 January 2008
To: U.S. Embassy Warden System
Subject: Passports for Minors – Parental Consent - New Passports Fees
To protect children from abduction, and to address concerns regarding runaway children, beginning February 1, both parents will be required to personally appear at a passport acceptance facility, passport agency or U.S. [...]
Posted in Panama Journal on Jan 14th, 2008
I went to the Immigration office in David this morning to see if I could get more information on the problem, I described HERE.
Here is the official requirements for traveling into Costa Rica and returning to Panama as told to me by the David office of Immigration.
You need to have a Pensionado card that says [...]
Posted in Panama Journal on Jan 10th, 2008
I went to the Gringos of David afternoon meeting today at El Fogon. I talked to one of the attendees and heard about the most outrageous process that has apparently been put into place.
If you are a Panama Pensionado and are planning on driving into Costa Rica, there is now one very bad process you [...]
Posted in Panama Journal on Jul 23rd, 2007
I recently received the following information from a reader of Chiriquí Chatter related to bringing pets to Panama:
Requirements for Animal Residential Quarantine: An old law being newly enforced since the end of 2006:
When people come through the Panamanian Border or Customs at Tocumen with a pet, an option everybody takes is to request in-home quarantine [...]
Posted in Panama Journal on Jun 7th, 2007
The Yahoo groups are starting to gather examples of real people in dire straits because of the changes in the Visa law. Here is one example I just read on one of the groups.
Just a few mins ago I received this e-mail from a friend of mine.
This guy lives in Chiriqui. He WAS NOT allowed [...]
Posted in Panama Journal on Jun 6th, 2007
Knowns and unknowns about the new 30-day visa law continue to to be raised on the Panama Yahoo groups. One thing that I think most people have heard now is that when your 30-day visa expires you must return to your “country of origin” before you can return to Panama.
So for example, if you are [...]
Posted in Panama Journal on Jun 4th, 2007
I received the following update this morning from a Chiriqui Chatter reader from a conversation he had with the Panama City immigration office:
I went down to Immigration here in PC this morning and was told by 3 different officials that the cut off date is May 21. If you arrived as a tourist in Panama [...]
Posted in Healthcare on Jun 3rd, 2007
The following rough translation from Spanish is supposed to be the reason for the newly proposed vaccination law. I found this in Spanish on one of the Yahoo groups and put it through the Google translator. I would point you to the original source, if I knew it. The “Vaccination” law will not be a [...]
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