It’s time for another coast-to-coast bike ride! After doing the 250km Dead2Red three times in 2009, 2010, and 2015 as part of a 5-person relay team, I’m ready for a new challenge – the 95km ride between Colon along the Caribbean coast down to Panama City on the Pacific. The race is in only three […]

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We stood outside the building and looked up at the large sign. “Premedico” it said, the Condado del Rey location. We had found a “groupon” equivalent deal for a local dentist (the most popular service for group-coupon hunters in Panama is named OfertaSimple) but I had no idea it was going to be a combination […]

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I’ve just finished hosting my first visitor to Panama! My friend Aurelia and her boyfriend Clayton spent two weeks in Panama at our invitation, and I think they enjoyed themselves fully. It’s the sunny and dry season now in Panama – well, as dry as this tropical country seems to be able to get – […]

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It’s 12:30 in the morning at the Houston International Airport, and I’m 10 meters from the locked door to the KLM crown lounge, staring wistfully at the “will return at 6am” sign being held in the hands of the smiling blue-suited cardboard cutout of a KLM flight attendant. I do remember agreeing and accepting that […]

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What a great little mini-vacation right before going home for Christmas! Christine and I just returned from four wonderfully relaxing days in Medellin, Colombia – a one hour plane ride from Panama City. We’d been hearing great things about the place for the past four months here and I’d always wanted the chance to visit […]

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This past weekend was Panama’s independence day from Colombia. Christine and I, along with apparently everyone else in Panama City, escaped out from the muggy, humid November weather (it’s the rainiest part of the year for us now) to cooler climes in the country. In our case it was the famously-expatriate-filled town of Boquete, which […]

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