We spent six months living in Panama, most of that time on a tiny island off the Caribbean coast where only a footpath leads from one side to the other, and everyone knows each other by first name. There are no big name stores, no buying in bulk and never a crowd. Then we went back to the United States.
Category Archive: Travel
Aug
18
The New Brighton: A Quiet Cafe On Sarmiento
I would have ignored Sarmiento 645, The New Brighton Restaurant, if I had just been out for a walk. Something about its large ornate doors and old fashioned wooden interior conjured images of an overpriced and painfully tourist trap, meaning …
Mar
30
You Don’t Have To Leave The House To See the World
I sit here today on the cusp of signing a one-year-lease on a little house in Salta. Can you imagine? One whole year living in one place? It seems almost unimaginable after more than two years of constant travel. But …
Feb
06
A Total Newbie Answers the Question: What Good Is Twitter?
I joined Twitter almost two years ago, but I wasn’t very active until recently. Now I’m hooked, and here’s why.