SALVOCONDUCTO UNCERTAINTY AND MEDUCA DROPS THE BALL April 15, 2020 I started the day with a phone call from long-time friend and International Lawyer Michael Pierce.  As usual, Mike and I spoke of the millions upon millions of dollars we could make on different projects as well as trying to guestimate when the wine stores […]

April 14, 2020 Today was my day to come down from the mountains with my mule, venture into town and trade our furs for basic supplies of corn meal, dried beans, coffee, sugar, fat, salt and flour while negotiating along the way with the natives.  In other words… I drove down from Las Cumbres in […]

April 13, 2020 This weekend, most of Panama was graced by the not-so-subtle change from summer to winter with several rain storms which could only be described as “Palos de Agua” (torrential downpours).  Colon and Bocas del Toro have had rain on and off in the last week, but Panama City and the Azuero finally […]

April 11, 2020 Being on Full Quarantine isn’t all that bad, unless you decide to venture out today or tomorrow when the local government has been very clear on their messages.     I wasn’t planning on writing this weekend until my good friend Chuck forgot about today also being added as a full quarantine day.  He […]

April 9, 2020 Heeding my own warnings, I left out this afternoon to ensure we had all of the basics to last us from now until next Tuesday.  As reported by MINSA and Panama’s President yesterday, everything is going to be shut down Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and my wife wouldn’t have gone out tomorrow […]

April 8, 2020 I’ve had some good feedback so far from these “Camp Fire Updates”, as one friend called it.  It definitely motivates me to write more of them.  This concept really came out of a concern I had for my good friend “Captain Chuck”.  Chuck and his friend “Johnny”, who was visiting from the […]

A Little Bit of Everything for a Tuesday Evening.   April 7, 2020 There’s always a lot going on in Panama, but today it’s been especially difficult which articles to choose from.  The summary of it all is, the virus continues to spread, more and more people are being detained for not adhering to the […]

April 6, 2020 Images from this weekend in Panama City are streaming across multiple social media platforms.  For the most part, Panamanians and locals did behave “well enough” and news sources from around the world were praising us on how well we are dealing with the pandemic.  It was simply amazing to see such empty […]

April 3, 2020 As Panama makes every effort to control the spread of the Coronavirus, they´ve definitely created measures of which we’ve never seen before.  Some have turned into some pretty good jokes: Men can only go out on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays to do the shopping and women are only allowed out on Mondays […]

April 1, 2020 TAXIS In a communication from the ATTT…T.TT.T, etc., (I never know when to stop), Taxis are now being regulated as to when they can transit according to their license plate number. As of April 3, 2020, taxis with license plates that end in even numbers (0, 2, 4, 6 or 8) are […]