american woman brutally murdered in panama
here’s the flip side to my recent article about living cheaply and safely in panama. check out this new york post story about a staten island philanthropist who came to panama to invest, and start up a bed and breakfast. the wealthy widow was staying just down the street from me, in the edificio Atlantis, [...]
the spoils of semana santa
last weekend, while i was sipping abuelo, and awaiting final judgment on my balcony, alex returned to her family in arrijan to celebrate semana santa (easter week). traditionally, all work stops at this time of year. panama city becomes a ghost town. churches fill up with the faithful. there are even painful reenactments of christ’s [...]
weather advisory – burn baby burn
the tv news in panama is warning people to avoid prolonged exposure to the sun this week. they issue this same advisory every year (april 9-15th), because every spring the sun lines up over panama, exposing us all to a more direct blast of the sun’s ultraviolet rays. you wouldn’t know it by looking out [...]
the cost of living in panama
cojito – I’ve researched Panama as well as I know how and what you’ve said here in your pages is mostly truth with a lot of bullshit and sex mixed in (no insult intended). Thru the internet I began writing a sexy woman who’s involved with the study for the widening of the canal. We [...]
Screams From The Bus
how to save $500 traveling from panama city to san jose costa rica 9:50 pm – alex and i wait at albrook station for the panaline bus to san jose costa rica. it feels like we’ve wandered into a colony of leaf-cutter ants. everyone’s carrying something, even the nuns have backpacks. brown-skinned natives dart past. [...]
