Excited!

I am excited, so excited!  We have booked a flight to David in Western Panama, the Province of Chiriqui near the border of Costa Rica.  The area has the second largest community of American expats in Panama.  We’ll spend three days exploring the towns of David and nearby Boquete.  Afterwards we will drive the 3.5 hours to Almirante to then ferry to Bocas where we hope to enjoy their famed Atlantic Ocean beaches and islands of Bocas del Tora.  And, we are going to do most of this with Jill and Gary!  Probably a good way to ruin a new friendship!!!  Hopefully not.

The scene and vibe will be totally different from anything else on this trip so far!

It took two days of research, reading reviews,, checking availability and balancing timetables — very difficult planning to put this all together but it will be fantastic! Thank you Stan!!!

We are having dinner tonight at the home of a Canadian couple we met at church, Don and Barbara.  They have lived here two years and have a daughter and family here.  It will be nice to get to know them a little better and to meet their other guests.  Dinner might be good too!

To get a little air and exercise, we did a trial-run walk to Don and Barbara’s beautiful condo building in order to determine if we can walk there tonight or UBER.  While we were out we took a closer look at the waterfront that we view from our balcony.  To get there we passed through a small but pleasant park.  Feeling like kids again we climbed/crawled the jetty of huge broken chunks of concrete and stone to go farther out into bay.  It is our guess the jetty was made from the debris of a long-ago yacht basin once there.

Two notes . . .

I spent an hour this morning watching a YouTube video of VH1’s last interview and live performance of George Harrison, 1997.  It just popped up and I clicked on.  I rarely spend time on YouTube.  But if you have an hour to spare and are so inclined, it is worthwhile and very special.  What a brainy, spiritual and talented man!  God bless you George!

Second, on my flight home from Atlanta the choice of onboard movies was pretty lame.  I watched one never-to-be-famous movie then opted for Breakfast at Tiffany’s.  I’m not a big fan of old movies.  To me many of them are just the same, over and over again with bad background music.  I had never watched this particular movie from start to finish.  Phooey!  The flight ended before I had time to finish the movie once again, but I had fallen in love.

At home I told Stan about how I was enjoying Breakfast at Tiffany’s on the plane and before I knew it he rented the movie for 48 hours.  We watched it two times.  What a wonderful story!  Yes, it’s a love story but I found the storyline very unique. More, Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard were two of the most beautiful people ever.  It chokes me a little to think they are both gone.  How can someone so beautiful no longer be walking God’s earth? 

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