Bob-Cha off to Panama!

Let's not lower our Guard now! This announcement from the ministry of health basically states the days when women can go out and when men can go out and when NO ONE can go out. Of course there are some exceptions allowed, but those require special permission. The white lettering in bold type at the bottom says, " Let's not let our guard down now!"             After months of planing and anticipation , we decided to to end our Panama visit early.  We intended to spend  two weeks exploring  David, Boquete and then Panama City.  But the best laid plains.... When you are planing to relocate to a foreign country there are many things you need to check out. For example, we wanted to make sure that all of our medications and supplements were available locally so we had researched the Spanish names of everything and made a list to take to the local  "farmacia" . We also needed to meet with our Immigration attorney to make sure all of o...

    I took this picture from the window of our hotel in David Panama just before the 6:30 curfew kicked in. Notice how empty these center city streets are.  They were teaming with people earlier, but here people adhere to the virus mitigation rules. They pride themselves in taking care of each other through such measures.   We flew into a city called David, (pronounced DA-veed) in Panama on Wednesday 12/16 after an almost comical travel debacle that turned our 6-hour trip into a 16-hour trip! David is about 6 hours from Panama City by car, but only an hour flight.   Once we got to our room and began to unpack we both commented about how sparse the room was. After our first night, however, we realized we were very comfortable, and we had everything we needed. There were no flourishes or artwork, but everything was there, the bed was sooo comfortable and everything was sparkling clean. All this at a price you would not believe -- with breakfast ...

I'm a lair. I really just made it completely private so that I can delete it later, when I'm stronger.  We have found that one of the hardest things to do is to give up on working!  Sure we stopped going to our 9-5's sometime ago, but we have discovered that we are still very much immersed in the work-a-day culture!   We are surrounded by books  and trade magazines, we have a whole wall devoted to certificates and (now meaningless) honorariums.  We have Linkedin accounts, and online resumes. For what? It is not my intention to ever work for anyone else. Never at all. I have no desire to write your grant, do your research, prove my point or justify my budget!  To that end I also deleted all the Performance Profiles I had collected over the years. Yes, I did! And as I did, I was struck by the amount of  soft-soap and apple polishing in those documents. I would never talk to someone like that now, nor would I allow someone to talk to me like that. Do...