In the ‘60s, country music was still, for the most part, very traditional. There were some crooners like Eddie Arnold and Jim Reeves, and a couple of others, but it was still a few years before the influence of pop music would change country music in a big way. The ‘60s country music was pretty […]
Last September, Allene and I drove over the mountains from where we live in Bocas del Toro, on the Caribbean side of Panama, to David, a large town on the Pacific slope in the province of Chiriqui. Every year since we moved here, we’ve made the annual trek at that time to get our annual […]
A few days ago I told our neighbor’s worker, Juan, that I would be going to town on the following Wednesday here in Bocas del Toro, Panama, where my wife Allene and I have resided for nearly 20 years. Juan is an indigenous member of the local Ngäbe tribe as is his wife Hilda. Hilda […]
The X-rays Dr. Barria wanted me to get in December had to be postponed until January 27 due to the resurgence of the Omicron variant. The Bocas hospital was full of COVID patients and half of the staff was out with the virus also. But with the patience I had already acquired in dealing with […]
The new swell started arriving two days ago here in Bocas del Toro, Panama, where we have lived for the last eighteen years. I took my boat that I keep in town, a 24 ft. fiberglass panga, out to Carenero Island the first two days to surf. On the northeast side of Carenero there are […]
