Heading for Panama

We have begun a new journey in our continuing retirement.

During the next 6 weeks we will tour Panama using Boquete as our southern base of operations, while continuing to use Houston as our "northen base". Our youngest son, Theron, has shared his home with us and has yet to show any tendency toward pushing us out of the nest -although, we have left him (sometimes for weeks at a time) to go on assorted junkets.

We were drawn to Boquete because of it's reputation as the best place to retire in the western hemisphere (Go ahead and Google the previous 8 words!). A small town in the mountain highlands of Panama, it is still just an hour's bus ride to the beach. In Miami last year we were 2 buses and a train ride from the beach so this seems easy. I'll report back on the ease after our first down-the-mountain bus ride.

For now we have plane tickets in hand and a 5 night reservation in a cheap room in the center of Boquete. Our hope is to find an apartment or small house for a month and after that maybe a beach cottage for the final week.

Should this first extended tour go well, we hope to repeat and lenghten the next with forays into neighboring countries. I already hear a whisper of the siren call from Ambergris Caye in Belize.