Several of you have asked me the same question privately so I thought I’d post it here along with my answer: “Are you glad you moved? Are you having the experience that you wanted?” The answer is unequivocally YES...
Guidelines for Living in Panama
Today’s experience at Mailboxes Etc was a microcosm of our life here. It also allows me to illustrate several guidelines for living in Panama. Guideline 1: Rarely will one day be fully good or fully bad. We successfully set...
(Not) Planning Ahead in Pedasi
We are very happy to be in Pedasi. Our house has a lot more room to hang out and thanks to our air conditioner we spent most of the day just lounging and relaxing. Sometimes you need days when...
Four New Gringos in Pedasi
I am writing this from our dining room table, which is outside on the porch facing the cows. We are settling in nicely to Pedasi although we are reminded that transitions are always hard. We arrived Friday after a...
Cooking Class
One night last week I had a bit of a meltdown (yes, again). I had made yet another very untasty dinner and my daily visits to the grocery store were stressful and overwhelming. We all know the meltdown wasn’t...
Panama Independence Day
It’s Panama’s independence day today, which kicks off a month of a bunch of holidays (6 I think I heard). Today was the celebration of independence from Columbia (independence from Spain comes later). We finally got to see what...
One word: SLOTHS
This is Haley. I have decided that I want to write a post here on Panama Pause and this topic is a great way to start. Let me first say that I wanted to write this in all caps...
Day Not Suave
It was not the smoothest of days yesterday. We managed to knock out two major decisions in a very short period of time (pretty much simultaneously) but it was rough. We now have a car (Honda CRV, black) and...
Halloween 2014
It’s been quiet on The Panama Pause for a few days. Partly due to the fact that our wifi went down for over 24 hours and partly due to our recovery from an exciting weekend in Bocas. When your...