"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today." – James Dean
Posted in Panama Journal on May 8th, 2009
Yesterday afternoon, about 45 gringos met at El Fogon for the monthly get together. This was the 3rd anniversary of Shirley forming the group as a means of having a setting to meet other ex-pats that were living in David and the surrounding area. Everyone expressed their gratitude to Shirley for her efforts with the [...]
Posted in Panama Journal on Sep 4th, 2008
This month’s meeting will be at this Pizza Place at 2:00 PM. As always, there will be a very formal agenda containing three main parts.
Eat
Drink
Be merry.
Shirley and Scott will not be in attendance today. Scott’s mother passed away and both Scott and Shirley are in the US. I send my condolences out to them.
By the [...]
Posted in David Restaurants, Dining Out on Feb 29th, 2008
Yesterday, the David Yahoo Group had its evening meeting at Stella’s Marina in Pedregal. It had been about 3 months since my last visit to this restaurant.
I normally eat light in the evening, but I couldn’t pass up the fried shrimp special for $8. I didn’t take a photo, but it was a lot of [...]
Posted in Rants on Jan 7th, 2008
Unfortunately, I dropped into the Yahoo of David site today and it is overflowing with bickering and belching about problems in Panama.I chose not to respond there, since it really won’t make much difference to some and I just don’t care to get in a long running argument. However, it did bring up a couple [...]
Posted in Panama Journal on Dec 16th, 2007
I came across the following post, in one of the Yahoo groups. The Yahoo groups are a source of good and bad information for me. Sometimes I find a person asking for information and I try to give it. Sometimes I find examples of selfishness and greed, but today, I found a very different kind [...]
Posted in Panama Journal, Rants on Dec 13th, 2007
There is a current thread running, in the Yahoo groups, saying that Copa is no longer giving discounts to gringos that are below the retirement age, even though they have the pensionado card. I am trying to find out if this is true or only a rumor. I have heard that the purchase requirements may [...]
Posted in Panama Journal on Sep 13th, 2007
The David Gringo Meeting will be today at 2:00 at Antojitos. It is interesting to me that the last meeting I went to there was one year ago tomorrow. I see that on that post, a year ago, that a person wrote and asked how to find one of the meetings.
I foolishly said to look [...]
Posted in David Restaurants, Dining Out, Panama Journal on Aug 10th, 2007
Thursday not Wednesday is the day that the David Yahoo Gringo group meetings takes place. I know that, but Wednesday, I forgot. Maybe I knew that I needed a dry run to know where the El Fogon restaurant was.
I will tell you that Wednesday was a better day weather wise. It rained like a son-of-a-gun [...]
Posted in Panama Journal on Aug 8th, 2007
It was advertised that there was going to be the David Yahoo Gringo’s meeting today at El Fogon restaurant. It was to commence at 2:00 PM, but I guess the meeting must have been canceled and I didn’t get the message.
I did meet a nice couple and satisfied my socializing needs for the day and [...]
Posted in Panama Journal on May 2nd, 2007
I remember, when I was a young boy living on a farm in Oklahoma, that the telephones that my folks used were on party lines. That meant that multiple people were on the same line and often some of the people that shared the line chose to listen to other’s calls.
At that time you couldn’t [...]
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