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Both........small circles and large.   The beauty of Boquete is just that....sincere caring. 

Breathtakingly beautiful.  Dangerous for the potential wide swinging traffic commin atcha.  No room for mistakes.  It will only be an occasional sight seeing adventure for us.  It's because of  the degree of difficulty and accident potential.  No time is saved for a trip from Boquete to the Potreillos side.   A flat tire on the new segment would be a real bad thing to have happen. .....real steep hills on curves with no shoulder for pull off for long segments.  😲

Remember the cardboard cops?    They were posted along the Boquete Road.   Until they blew apart I do believe the faux traffic cops  had a calming effect on the speeders. 

Glad to see enforcement.  Still some mighty fast and furious driving goin on. 

Lot's of money !   Question will be who will be in charge of money management and financial oversight to prevent corruption.  Then, who will be in charge of watching the watchers  as millions and billions of dollars was mentioned .

Flossy sez:   "Dogs like me thank you for your help.  I was once lost , alone and hungry.  Now I take care of two old humans." 

Wonderful charity !

WOW...consider that !  😐

Awe shucks...you missed it.  Ribs were fantastic as usual at the send off lunch. .  BUT it's calendar time of year and you can pick them up at MBE..very soon.  All the photos are fabulous this year.  You will love the calendar and as well support the Amigos de Animales cause.  Flossy appreciates the medical care she has received at the clinic and we do to!

Alison, Bill

...and Flossy...the dog off the streets of Brisas that adopted us.

Well in all the years of her tenure they could not manage textbooks, sanitary bathrooms and water supply and a conducive learning environment for so many poor up in the Comarca ( or in Boquete and the surrounds for that matter) .....the system lacks all the way around.   Teachers up in the Comarca and students as well have to risk their lives to get to school on dangerous roads, footpaths and rivers that have to be crossed.    It is shameful.  The country's children deserve the ability to learn and achieve..........period.   It's basic ! 

In top shape I hope...Bill has flight reservations

20 hours ago, Keith Woolford said:

I have doubts about the veracity of Newsroom Panama's story

In what regard?...safety ??

20 hours ago, Keith Woolford said:

I have doubts about the veracity of Newsroom Panama's story

Wow.  I signed up and just scanned through this gem.  Happy customer.  If you sign up.....do check your spam for their response on the new subscription.  My subscription sat in spam limbo for a few days until ChiriquiLife assisted me in it's discovery.   PanamaCyberNews   is a neat new source of information for those who enjoy knowing what's up here in Panama. 

WOW !   Please let us all know how you did reduce the amount down.  I am blown away at that 1200/day email-spam amount and do appreciate the time you had to spend to separate the wheat from the shaft, just because you are a moderator of such a helpful site as this one.   .........Alison

OK here is the solution for those who did not get their new Medicare Card and may have a MBE address. 

Go to : My Medicare.gov and log in.  

Once logged in then go to live chat

The agent will ask you to confirm your address.  You confirm your MBE addy they have if that's where you want it sent. Once you confirm, they then send you the card.  You will get it in 4 weeks...well here, maybe more.  There was no issue with regard to having a MBE mailforwarder addy as the address on record. 

Do not wait.  You have to have the new card.  If God forbid you need to head to the USA on a medical emergency, you need that card. 

Did it arrive in General Delivery or MBE ?

Medicare Card Update:

No card arrived as of yet ( Sept 2019)  .  The 2019 Medicare Book did so they have the addy and do use it...but not for the card mailing apparently. 

Anybody who is a permanent resident here in Boquete receive their new Medicare Card in the mail?   Apparent;y they have all been sent out.  We'd like to know as ours have not arrived.

Cost of living near a coast.  Yes.  We lived our adult life on Oahu Hawaii.   Maintenance fees for our 850 sq ft condo were $700/month.  Old building, flood zone. These fees are so high because of insurance and reserve funds necessary to  sustain through all eventualities.  This was a huge reason for us looking for another location to live in retirement.   Thank goodness we gave up on our dream for a surf hut on the island of Eleuthera in the Bahamas !.  

3 minutes ago, John R Hampton said:

9:00 a.m., September 1st

One reason we chose Boquete over Eleuthera Bahamas...was hurricanes.

  Through an advertisement in Surfer magazine we paid $1,500.00 for a lot on the island of Eleuthera  in 1980.  We sold it for $20,000.00 in 2007 just before we settled here in Boquete.  If you look due west of that huge red dot of a hurricane.....that is Eleuthera .   Seriously bad there now. 

Greed and lust....hard to separate .  ( wow, just when I thought I'd heard it all here) 

The several dozen cloth diapers I gave to the indigenous family turned into a request for a box of Pampers and handiwipes.     The cloth ones?  Never used.    So what's wrong with washing cloth diapers?......probably a lack of running water and a water storage tank at their house and the distance to the river. 

A friend bought a ticket from an online budget airline ticket vendor and the bank here in Panama withdrew the money from his savings account but strangely it never arrived at the Airlines and the ticket was never confirmed.  The money from his savings was eventually returned from being lost in cyber space.  The time it took to return his money caused a delay and resulted in him paying a great deal more for the ticket.   He never got an answer on what exactly happened.

11 hours ago, JohnF13 said:

Diapers HAVE to be one of the most polluting items in Panama.  Alternatives are easily available.  Yet, we celebrate banning plastic bags.  Think seriously, folks.

 

Washing cloth diapers is as old school as a dial phone.  A gift of several dozen I gave to a Ngobe family turned into rags. 

Radar spotted on the Boquete highway just now.   Take it easy !  (12 noon Thurs)