Um, yeah. About this blog…

The notion of walking away from everything familiar, including career and country is not something one should do lightly.

Travel in the Time of Coronavirus

After months of being hunkered down in Maryland Panama finally opened up to international travel in October of 2020. Copa, which typically had several flights per day was only down to one flight to Panama. I arrived at 10:15 PM. I snapped this photo of the only other arrival. Inside the airport, it was eerily …

Directions.

Before you can get to the farm, you need to get to Panama. That generally means arriving to Tocumen international airport. I generally travel via Copa airlines. One thing you should be mindful of when making travel plans is that carriers have seasonal rules with regard to the number of bags you can carry. Check …

Water Fasting: The Sequel

Once more into the breach, dear friends...

7 Day Water Fast

One-quarter of what you eat keeps you alive.
The other three-quarters keeps your doctor alive.

A Storm of Butterflies…

In Chaos Theory, the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state, is commonly known as The Butterfly Effect. And all of us are hatching thousands of butterflies The steak you enjoy caused the earthquake in Mexico. You have to eat. …

Deep Blood Kettle

A buffalo jump is a type of communal hunting which occurred as early as 12,000 years ago  which Native Americans historically used to hunt and kill plains bison in mass quantities. Hunters herded the bison and drove them over the cliff, breaking their legs and rendering them immobile. Tribe members waiting below closed in with spears and bows to finish …

Now what?

Finding the right property at the right price had been my focus for so long that I only had a vague notion as to what we would do once we bought the place. That might sound strange, almost backwards. Shouldn’t one decide what to do and then find the optimum place to do it? Perhaps, …

Finding The Finca

On Saturday March 25th, 2017, just three months back from my last trip in Panama, I stumbled across a listing on the Casa Solutions web site for a self- sustainable income producing farm that was in my price range. I fired off the form requesting more information, and heard back from Ryan Braasch, a realtor working in association …

The Caribbean Life

So I finally got my 15 minutes of fame, appearing on the The Caribbean Life. I've gotten a lot of questions about how it happened, what it was like, so I thought I'd write about it. If you have Xfinity On Demand, you can find it under Shows/HGTV/The Caribbean Life/Season 9/Episode 2. It all started with …

Where the streets have no name…

Negotiating directions in Panama requires a great deal of tribal knowledge. One cannot simple say a street number, or even an intersection of two streets, or god forbid GPS coordination. Unless you describe the area and make a phone call where a description of the area, local shops, the buildings and history is exchanged, no …