The forecast for Tuesday showed only a 30% chance of rain – a good day for visiting the park. Wednesday’s rain forecast was 90%. The Metropolitan National Park, the lungs of the city it’s called, is a 573-acre nature preserve in the city of Panama City. It was established in 1985 and has a close …
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Learn Something Every Day
We have the local transportation system down pat. We found its very useful mobile app. So far, everywhere we want to go has been best accessed by bus. Nothing by subway yet. Compliments to Panama City on their transportation system. The buses are on time, very clean and easy to use. Since we began our …
Finding the Metro, etc.
What a couple of happy days! It doesn’t take much to make us happy. Stan made the best breakfast on Wednesday. While I was working on the blog, Stan skillet-grilled cheese sandwiches with tomato on white bread with Ranch dressing – we have no mayo, Oh wow, my breakfast was fragrant, hot, crunchy on the …
Biking!
We did it! And we are so happy we did! We booked a 3-hour bike tour yesterday for today. We met at 9:30 am on Tuesday morning. Here’s how they do bike tours here. We signed up on Viator. I got a message via WhatsApp – almost everyone around the world uses this app except …
Finding our way around
Most of the morning today was spent learning where a church within walking distance might be. If we don’t get plugged-in soon, we could find ourselves lazy in ever getting engaged with a local church. That has happened before. For us, getting involved with a church now is important. There are a couple of English-speaking churches …
Wow, Panama!
It’s a little wet here. Panama, like most tropical locales, has two seasons, rainy season and dry season. Summer lives here all the time. Now is the summer rainy season. We knew that when we chose Panama, but I have to say, I’m a little bit surprised at just how wet wet can be. The …
Ready to Fly
I cannot believe we are finally at this point. It seems as though we have been working toward this for such a long time. One more day in Atlanta; one more day in the USA. We once talked to a couple about our age who had already moved in to a very active independent living …
Orlando
International travel is fun, exciting, eye-opening, perspective-changing and awesome. God has created such wonderful planet. And we are fortunate to get a glimpse of some that’s out there. Not to be overlooked are the near-by adventures though. Near everyone’s little spot on the globe is an exciting, fun and wonderful something to be explored . …
One more note for tonight
I know. It makes no sense to be going on “vacation” right now. But we committed to a trip to Orlando months ago when we had no, absolutely no idea we’d be doing what we are doing today. We prepaid the trip. That said — we are driving to Orlando tomorrow (Saturday) for a week …
The Move
Sure has been busy around here! Ultimately I find myself delinquent in sharing my stories. So let’s catch up. The following was written on September 24. Today is September 30. Sheesh!!! I hope to do better!!! September 24, 2021 We are DIY people. Ordinarily that pays off. We save money; we learn something and we …