Tropical Life
Panama’s High Cost of Electricity
on occasion I visit The Panama Forum. I like to sip my morning coffee on the balcony while I read what other expats (and locals) are saying about [tag]Panama[/tag]. Once in a while (re: when Eric Jackson posts) there’s helpful, interesting, verifiable information presented. Most times its just folks searching for (or opining about) lawyers, [...]
Rainy Season: brave enough to run wild.
Semi-drunk and down $40 I step out of the casino and get hit with warm rain. I dash across the busy street. Grenade-like dollops explode on my face and slam the roofs of cars on either side of Via Espania. It sounds like I’m shooting the rapids. Several Kuna Indians with brightly colored leg bands [...]
Apartment Hunting in Panama City
at night there’s “[tag]Lord Jim[/tag]” the fantastic Conrad tale. I read about “men who live in a crazy maze of plans, hopes, dangers, enterprises, ahead of civilization, in the dark places of the sea, and their death was the only event of their fantastic existence that seemed to have any reasonable certitude of achievement.” Is [...]
Immigration or How to Stay in Panama
what’s your reason for wanting to live in [tag]Panama[/tag]? Do you imagine you’ll spend your final days here? Maybe be buried in a lead coffin off the coast of [tag]Porto Bello[/tag] like Francis Drake? Perhaps your reality is a bit more pedestrian and you’re hiding out from an angry wife, the tax man, or legal [...]
Have you seen Tequila?
Heh – sure I have. I sucked down half a bottle last night. And as I was stumbling around the throbbing carnival crowd I heard a dog-like squeal pierce the drumbeats. Well, several squeals really. Followed by many many screams. One or two of them were probably my own. After midnight, when you’re one of [...]
