Still a bit too hot for a walk...

It is still a bit too hot for a walk but am enjoying hearing the sound of the surf pounding the beach.

See my little blue hotel.  The black window is the open window of a small strip of a veranda just outside my bedroom.

Keep posted as over the next two evenings I will play a bit of catch up with my posts.

Going solo for a couple of nights...

I am at a beach hotel.  Originally Blanca had said we'd go to the beach for a couple of nights but then thought she'd rather stay and visit with her relatives none of whom speaks English.

We talked over a few options (a day trip, one night away etc.) but instead we decided I would stay in a beach hotel for 2 nights.

A solution!

It isn't a resort and the beach isn't good for swdimming but all I want is to walk along the ocean's edge in the surf.

It caters to fishermen and doesn't have food facilities but I am well stocked up with all I need.

I can walk along the ocean.  I can sit in the veranda and read my book listening to the surf, a sound that thrills this prairie girl.  Or I can do as I am right now swaying in the hammock with views of the ocean only metres away in a lovely breeze.

It has internet, air conditioning and is $44 per night.

No WiFi in village for the next 3 days

So I won't be able to post for a while.

Hello from Panama..

Last night we went to the fair, an equivalent of our exhibition.  No pictures to post since neither of us wanted to be encumbered with our tablets.  I took lots of pictures with my camera though, so stay tuned to more posts when I'm home.

I had a marvelous time - it's just like our exhibition with public performances, venders, a midway, agricultural animals, etc. But it has an entirely different feel and flavour.

We'll be returning again one evening ( too hot to go during the day).

In the meantime a few random pictures ( if I can do it today... internet is acting up this morning).

Our chicks - they are getting big although sadly one died.

Spot Mila's iguana in the tree!

A gourmet cup of organic coffee from the Vulcan area

Blanca just got back from going for a couple of errands.  She asked for a replacement chicken for the one that died.  They said nobody has ever asked for a replacement before.  Blanca said the chick was sick and now we only had 7 when we needed 8.  They got a big kick out of it and gave her the replacement.

Just a quick post with a variety of pictures...

Just a few pictures

from a few days. They include sections of Mila's yard and her rooster.

Here is a picture of an indigenous mom and her son.  Blanca engaged them in conversation and discovered they hadn't eaten.  She bought them their lunch.

I was driving in steep, twisty Panamanian mountain roads.  We came across some workers picking oranges.  Blanca asked if we could take their picture and they laughed and said, 'Si!'

Then Blanca asked for 2 oranges and they tossed us a couple.  (The light was in the wrong direction.)

A day of (mis)adventure...

What a day!  Instead of travel adventures it was a day of travel misadventures.

Misadventure #1 - Costa Rica
Prospero thought it would be a good idea to take a look at one of the Costa Rican towns just over the border.  So that's what we did.  We shouldn't have bothered since there was virtually nothing to see except the town square.  That wouldn't have made it a misadventure except it was almost intolerably hot.

Misadventure #2
I can no longer claim I have never bribed an officer of the law.

Misadventure #3
After travelling home to Chiltre for 3 1/2 hours we discovered we were locked out!  Mila and her daughter Magita had just left for an evening out and didn't get home for another 4 hours!  ( We hadn't let them know when we were returning.)

Thank goodness for the hospitality of Corina while we waited!!

One bright spot was a short detour off the freeway to have a photo opportunity of a spectacular beach.  Must return one day to experience it.

Boquete area

Blanca's friend Prosperous spent the day with us and showed us around.  Pictures include his property, views of the vołcano Baru, a mountain waterfall, a coffee tree in bloom, some general scenery and a spot in town where in January there was a flower festival.

More pictures will be posted once I can steal them from Blanca since she got many on her

tablet that I didn't capture.