More Mind-Boggling Changes:

Okay, we are in another location and it seems like another world. Yesterday at 11AM Miguel, who has been our driver throughout our wandering around Panama picked us up in Coronado. We were more than ready to leave the so-called Bambu Haus. The owner is from Germany so I guess that led to the Haus name. The fence around the 5 or 6 duplexes in the compound is made with Bamboo so I guess that's another explanation for the name but only saw one little baby bamboo sprout. The location was not good, too far to walk to restaurants, grocery stores and pharmacies so Uber and taxis were are friends. There just wasn't much to do, television, we watched some of Breaking Bad in Spanish-kind of funny but we were just killing time.

Anyway back to 11AM yesterday, Miguel picked us up, loaded our luggage and we were on our way at break-neck speed. Just before 12:30 we were in Casco Viejo or the old town of Panama City, sitting in very slow traffic. Lots of cars, many pedestrians. Another surprise, we never expected it seems to be what appears to be one big tourist attraction. Beautiful old buildings, everything gentrified, restaurant after restaurant right next to where we are staying. Tourist guided tours with 20-30 people obstructing the sidewalks. Actually a nice change from hardly  ever seeing a person, in Coronado. People watching mecca is what it is. Every nationality, every color, and every type of dress/costume. And of course many varied behaviors.

Our Air B and B is very unique, on the bottom floor is our bedroom, a full bathroom and so much closet space, we had none in Coronado. There's also the desk where my laptop sits and where I write. One flight upstairs which is reached by climbing a scary metal spiral staircase is the kitchen, quite nice, well equipped for cooking and eating and the living room, with comfortable furniture, TV and an incredible panoramic view of the skyline of Downtown Panama City and also the bay between here and there. We like the setting, the view the people watching, restaurants. We've tried a couple already but our big outing this morning was walking to the nearest grocery store (7 or 8 blocks) to stock up with a few things. Restaurants are not cheap but groceries are about half of what they are in Green Valley.

It rained hard for about 10 minutes this morning. April is the month the rainy season starts here. Usually only quick thundershowers. Temperature 88 and humidity about 80. Takes some getting used to.

Stay tuned, we have, I believe 8 days left in Panama. 

Stan the Man